Empress of the Nile : the daredevil archaeologist who saved Egypt's ancient temples from destruction / Lynne Olson.

"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 cove...

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Main Author: Olson, Lynne (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House, [2023]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Desroches-Noblecourt, Christiane, > 1913-2011.
Egyptologists > France > Biography.
Women Egyptologists > France > Biography.
Archaeologists > France > Biography.
Women archaeologists > France > Biography.
Egypt > Antiquities.
Antiquities.
Egyptologists.
Egypt.
France.
Biography.
Biographies.
Genre:
Biography.
Biographies.
Physical Description:xx, 426 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Variant Title:
Daredevil archaeologist who saved Egypt's ancient temples from destruction
Format: Book

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