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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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  • Description de l'Égypte is the title of several books. Description de l'Égypte - Description de l'Égypte ou Recueil des observations et des recherches...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 1809 in archaeology (category Articles with short description)
    of which are listed below. First volume of Description de l'Egypte published "Le Description de l'Egypte; ou, recueil des observations et des recherches...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • "Orientalism." The Mémoires were eventually worked into Description de l'Égypte (Description of Egypt), an accumulation of various research done during...
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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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    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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    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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    Memphis, Egypt (category Articles with short description)
     276–316. Jean de Thévenot (1665). Relation d'un voyage fait au Levant. Paris: L. Billaine. Government of France (1809–1822). Description de l'Égypte. Paris:...
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  • Nuremberg Chronicle by Dürer. Also printed on Arches paper was the Description de l'Égypte commissioned by Napoleon I upon his return from his Egyptian campaign...
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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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    Hasarius adansoni (category Articles with short description)
    Explication sommaire des planches d'arachnides de l'Egypte et de la Syrie publiées ... in "Description de l'Egypte...". Histoire Naturelle 1(4):1-339 (arachnids...
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    Egyptian Hall (category Articles with short description)
    grouped, all the ancient monuments, Benoît de Maillet's Description de l'Égypte (1735), Richard Pococke's A Description of the East and Some Other Countries...
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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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    Bey (category Articles with short description)
    d'Alger, de Tunis, de Marok, et d'Égypte (in French). C. Hingray. p. 90. بيك beyk, bey. Jomard, Edme-François (1826). Description de l'Egypte (in French)...
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    Egyptology (category Articles with short description)
    oriented with the publication of Mémoires sur l'Égypte in 1800 and the more comprehensive Description de l'Egypte between 1809 and 1829. These recorded Egyptian...
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    the decision to collect and publish its scholarly work as the Description de l'Égypte. The Institut lasted until its 47th and final meeting on 21 March...
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    Gebelein (category Articles with short description)
    in the early 18th century AD and was included in Benoît de Maillet's Description de l'Egypte. As well as official excavations, many artifacts from the...
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