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Tutankhamen and the Discovery of His Tomb
Grafton Elliot Smith
出版Routledge, 2005
主題History / Ancient / GeneralHistory / Ancient / EgyptHistory / Middle East / EgyptSocial Science / Archaeology
ISBN07103100569780710310057
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=PNdVyu5DkQQC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋"First published by Kegan Paul in 1923, within months of the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb, this account written by the renowned anatomist and historian of mummification who was involved in the work on many of the royal mummies, reveals the intellectual and scholarly excitement generated by the event. Apart from its interest as an aesthetic revelation of dazzling and unrivalled brilliance and the intrinsic value of the objects, Grafton Smith saw the discovery as important for other reasons. First, it led to a recognition of the vastness of the achievements of the ancient Egyptians. Second, it caused scholars to rethink the influence Egyptian civilization might have had on the ancient Near East and, ultimately, on Europe. Third, the very fact that so much luxury and beauty was poured into hidden recesses and buried out of sight, suggested that the beliefs that underlay these practices brought about the development of Egyptian civilization. Smith considers all these questions in --