Sir Gardner Wilkinson and His Circle, by Jason Thompson, University of Texas Press, Austin, 1992

In the early 19th century there were no "archaeologists" as we use the term today, although antiquarians studied the relics of the past, mainly of the classical world but occcasionally also Egypt and other distant, exotic lands, and dilettantes, men of w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Richard B. Woodbury
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 1993-11-01
Series:Bulletin of the History of Archaeology
Online Access:http://www.archaeologybulletin.org/article/view/409