Histoire de l'égyptologie en formation
Acteurs, pratiques et diffusion d’une nouvelle science orientaliste au XIXe siècle
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Shortly before the opening of the exhibition “L’aventure Champollion. Dans le secret des hiéroglyphes” at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, let’s take a look back at the history of the Egyptian section of the...
After the status and staff of the Musée Guimet1, let’s go back to this establishment to look at its now lost Egyptian gallery2–the museum’s Egyptological collections having been exchanged with the Asian pieces of...
A letter with a singular tone found in the archives gives us an opportunity to follow back the misadventures of a statue representing the goddess Isis nursing her son Horus and inscribed in the name of the divine worshipper Chepenupet II.
I had decided to limit (for the time being, at least) my examination of the archives of the Louvre’s Department of Egyptian Antiquities, which are held in the Archives nationales, to 1914. Article 20144775/2...
After describing the emergency measures taken in August 19141, continuation and end of my overview of the life in the Egyptian galleries of the Louvre during the Great War: the daily life of the...
As announced in a previous post1, the meticulous annotations in Charles Boreux’s notebooks provide too good an opportunity to document the Department of Egyptian Antiquities’ experience of the turmoil of the First World War...
Again this time, a nice find in the 20144775 collection of the archives of the Louvre’s Department of Egyptian Antiquities, namely in the article 20144775/5, describe in the inventory “department reports”. It is nothing...
Various projects prevent me from taking the time to publish anything more elaborate at the moment, but on Saturday I found an episode so startling that I can’t resist presenting it as is. This...
It is known that to protect its basements from rodents, the Hermitage Museum keeps cats that were once present even in the exhibition rooms. Unfortunately, I have not found any evidence of such a...
The 19th century is never a disappointment when it comes to originality. Here are a few anecdotes recently unearthed that revolve around the oddities that could be provoked by the cleverly staged exhibition of...
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