Empress of the Nile : the daredevil archaeologist who saved Egypt's ancient temples from destruction : hardback First edition

Empress of the Nile : the daredevil archaeologist who saved Egypt's ancient temples from destruction : hardback

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Material type: 図書

Author: Lynne Olson

Publisher: Random House

Publication date: 2023

Material Format: Paper

Capacity, size, etc.: 24 cm

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Material Type: 図書
ISBN: 9780525509479
Title: Empress of the Nile : the daredevil archaeologist who saved Egypt's ancient temples from destruction
Volume: : hardback
Author/Editor: Lynne Olson
Edition: First edition
Author Heading: Olson, Lynne
Publication, Distribution, etc.: Random House
Publication Date: 2023
Publication Date (W3CDTF): 2022
Size: 24 cm
Place of Publication (Country Code): us
Text Language Code: en
Subject Heading: Desroches-Noblecourt, Christiane, 1913-2011
Egyptologists -- France -- Biography
Egypt -- Antiquities
LCC: PJ1064.D47
Target Audience: 一般
Note (General): Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Summary: "In the 1960s, the world's attention was focused on a nail-biting race against time-an international campaign to save over a dozen ancient Egyptian temples, built during the height of the pharaohs' rule, from drowning in the floodwaters of the gigantic new Aswan High Dam. But the massive press coverage of this unprecedented rescue effort completely overlooked the feisty French archaeologist who made it all happen. Without the intervention of Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt, the temples-including the Met Museum's Temple of Dendur-would now be at the bottom of a gigantic reservoir. It was a project of unimaginable size and complexity that required the fragile sandstone temples to be dismantled, stone by stone, and rebuilt on higher ground. A willful, real-life version of Indiana Jones, Desroches-Noblecourt refused to be cowed by anyone or anything. As a brave member of the French Resistance in WWII she had survived imprisonment by the Nazis; in her fight to save the temples she had to face down two of
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