The Rape of the Nile by Brian Fagan

Author:Brian Fagan [BRIAN FAGAN]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2012-01-09T05:00:00+00:00

PART THREE

BIRTH OF A SCIENCE

In summary, the well-agreed interest of science

demands, not that excavations are interrupted

because science acquires new certainties and

unexpected enlightenment each day through

this work, but that one submits the excavators

to such a control that the preservation of the

tombs discovered today and in the future might

be fully assured and well guaranteed against

the attacks of ignorance or blind greed.

JEAN-FRANÇOIS CHAMPOLLION

to the pasha of Egypt, 1829, quoted in Lesley Adkins

and Roy Adkins, The Keys of Egypt

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