Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue
1. From Pharaoh’s Granaries to Measured Wonders: Changing Views on the Pyramids from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century
2. The Ottoman Empire, Adventurers, and a Circus Strongman: Opening Up Egypt and the Holy Land after 1700
3. Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign and the Fortunes of War: More Artifacts and Treasures Discovered
4. A New Preclassical Literature: Thomas Young, Jean-François Champollion, and the Reading of Ancient Egyptian Texts
5. The French Diplomat, the London Law Clerk, and the Mounds of Mesopotamia: Botta, Layard, Nineveh, and Noah’s Flood
6. Nimrud Rises from the Sand: The Victorian Discovery of Assyria, Babylonia, and Sumer
7. Daring Clergymen and a Royal Prince: Exploring the Holy Land and Surveying Palestine
8. Professor Charles Piazzi Smyth, Pyramidology, and King Solomon’s Mines: Archaeological Delusions
9. Thomas Cook: The Carpenter, Baptist Minister, and Entrepreneur Who Began Package Tours to the Holy Land
10. Mummies and Museums: The Artifacts Tell Their Stories
11. Biblical Art, Literature, and Music: The Holy Land in the Popular Imagination
12. Is the Bible No More Than Folktales, or Is It Real History? The Impact of Archaeology and Walking in the Footsteps of Saint Paul
13. Back in Egypt: Karl Lepsius, François Mariette, Sir Flinders Petrie, and the Founding of Scientific Archaeology
14. After the Victorians: The Middle East in Modern Times, from King Tut to William Albright to Cecil B. DeMille
Bibliography
Index
