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    The Description de l'Égypte ("Description of Egypt") was a series of publications, appearing first in 1809 and continuing until the final volume appeared...
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    The Carte de l'Égypte (English: Map of Egypt), from the Description de l'Égypte, was the first triangulation-based map of Egypt, Syria and Palestine....
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  • 1821–1830. Description de l'Égypte - Description de l'Égypte, contenant plusieurs remarques curieuses sur la Geographie ancienne et moderne de ce pais....
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    Edme-François Jomard (category Articles with short description)
    French cartographer, engineer, and archaeologist. He edited the Description de L'Égypte and was a member of the Institut d'Egypte established by Napoleon...
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    Taposiris Magna (category Articles with short description)
    conducted a survey of the architecture of the city published in the Description de l'Égypte. In the twentieth century, excavations of the site were started...
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    Sea eagle (category Articles with short description)
    naturalist Marie Jules César Savigny in his chapter on birds in the Description de l'Égypte. The two fish eagles in the genus Ichthyophaga were found to lie...
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    Cleopatra's Needles (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    In 1735, the former French consul in Egypt, Benoît de Maillet, wrote in his Description de l'Egypte: Cleopatra's Needles: After this famous monument, the...
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  • Cats in ancient Egypt (category Articles with short description)
    descriptions (Second ed.). Paris: C. L. F. Panckoucke. pp. 125–157. Savigny, J. C. (1826). "Planche 51". In Jomard, E. (ed.). Description de l'Égypte...
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  • Labyrinth of Egypt (category Articles with short description)
    Commission des Sciences et des Arts (ed.). Description de l'Égypte (in French). Vol. IV: Antiquités, Descriptions. Paris, France: Imprimerie Royale. pp. 478–516...
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    Suez Canal (category Articles with short description)
    the original on 14 February 2009. Please refer to Description de l'Égypte. Descriptions de l'Égypte, Volume 11 (État Moderne) Archived 19 August 2020...
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    Avenue of Sphinxes (category Articles with short description)
    road was later buried under layers of sand over the centuries. In Description de l'Égypte (1809) the Avenue of Sphinxes is described as 2,000 meters long...
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    Antinoöpolis (category Articles with short description)
    in Description de l'Egypte), a circus, and a hippodrome nearby, were still to be seen. Illustrations of Antinoöpolis from Description de l'Égypte Ruin-field...
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    Institute on 21 December 1807. He also contributed to the monumental Description de l'Égypte. In 1822, Fourier succeeded Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre as Permanent...
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    Gyps (category Articles with short description)
    Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-26. Savigny, Marie Jules César (1809). Description de l'Égypte: Histoire naturelle (in French). Vol. 1. Paris: Imprimerie impériale...
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    Argiope (spider) (category Articles with short description)
    Savigny. In the first edition of the work in which the description appeared (Description de l'Égypte: Histoire Naturelle), Audouin used the spelling "Argyope"...
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    Egyptomania in the United States (category Articles with short description)
    Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Égypte, the Institute of Egypt's Description de l'Égypte, and Verdi's Aida. In the French Empire style, Egyptian imagery...
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    List of Egyptian obelisks (category Articles with short description)
    Flinders Petrie, Tanis, I, plate IX (51, North Obelisk) 1809: Description de l'Égypte, IV, plate 71, Text II, ch. XVII, 43–45 Charles Kuentz (1932) Catalogue...
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    Ababda people (category Articles with short description)
    104" M. du Bois Aymé (1809): "Mémoire sur la ville de Qoçeyr et ses environs" in "Description de l'Égypte: ou recueil des observations et des recherches qui...
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    Tanis (category Articles with short description)
    Egypt. Engineer Pierre Jacotin drew up a map of the site in the Description de l'Égypte. It was first excavated in 1825 by Jean-Jacques Rifaud, who discovered...
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    Egyptian Revival architecture (category Articles with short description)
    expedition with him to Egypt. Publication of the expedition's work, the Description de l'Égypte, began in 1809 and was published as a series through 1826. The...
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    Colossi of Memnon (category Articles with short description)
    Panoramic view 1743 by Richard Pococke c.1800 from Description de l'Égypte c.1800 from Description de l'Égypte, showing the inscriptions 1830s from The Holy...
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    Napoleon (category Articles with short description)
    included the Rosetta Stone, and their work was published in the Description de l'Égypte in 1809. En route to Egypt, Bonaparte reached Malta on 9 June 1798...
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    Khalij (Cairo) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    illustrations of the Khalij Depiction of a bridge over the Khalij in the Description de l'Égypte (c. 1809) Illustration of houses along the Khalij in the early...
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    Mongoose (category Articles with short description)
    Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, É. (1817). "De l'Ichneumon. Ichneumon pharaon". In Jomard, E. F. (ed.). Description de l'Égypte, ou, Recueil des observations et...
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    Urva (genus) (category Articles with short description)
    Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, É. (1817). "De l'Ichneumon. Ichneumon pharaon". In Jomard, E. F. (ed.). Description de l'Égypte, ou, Recueil des observations et...
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    Edward William Lane (category Articles with short description)
    publishing the project (known as Description of Egypt as an homage to the early 1800s publication, Description de l'Égypte), but then backed out. This rejection...
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    Ramesseum (category Articles with short description)
    yield the seminal 23-volume Description de l'Égypte. Two French engineers, Jean-Baptiste Prosper Jollois and Édouard de Villiers du Terrage, were assigned...
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    White-tailed eagle (category Articles with short description)
    1809 by the French naturalist Marie Jules César Savigny in the Description de l'Égypte. The name Haliaeetus is Neo-Latin for "sea-eagle", from Ancient...
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    Valley of the Kings (category Articles with short description)
    Prosper Jollois and Édouard de Villiers du Terrage located the tomb of Amenhotep III, WV22). The Description de l'Égypte contains two volumes (out of...
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  • History of Phoenicia (category Short description with empty Wikidata description)
    French-government-sponsored Mission de Phénicie – considered a smaller-scale follow up to the Napoleonic era Description de l'Égypte – and then with the Corpus...
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