CSPAN2 Book TV March 15, 2014
This is the description of de l la idiotidiots. These were rebound, published later in the nineteenth century. But what they document is Napoleons Campaign in egypt and artists rendering of the landscape of egypt, pyramids, architecture, architectural elements, elements of the hieroglyphs, egyptian pottery, maps, diagrams of the layouts of pyramids, different historical sites around egypt. This is an era where there was no photography. This was a way to document and detailed the things napoleon and his army were capturing and a way to account for the riches of egypt that napoleon was hoping to...
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