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title: "Egyptology: The Missing Millennium: Ancient Egypt in Medieval Arabic Writings (UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications)"
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# Egyptology: The Missing Millennium: Ancient Egypt in Medieval Arabic Writings (UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications)

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- **What is this?** Egyptology: The Missing Millennium: Ancient Egypt in Medieval Arabic Writings (UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications) by okasha el daly
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## Customer Reviews

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    Eye-opening Entertaining Read About Egyptology From the Egyptian's Own Primary Sources
  

*by T***T on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 3, 2020*

Who first deciphered hieroglyphics?  Google (and anyone else) will tell you it was Champollion in the early 1800's.  That's wrong.The first books on hieroglyphic decipherment were published in the 8th and 9th century during the golden age of the Islamic empire.  There was a tremendous enthusiasm in unlocking the secrets of Egyptian science and mathematics.  As Okasha el-Daly explains, there were still speakers of Coptic-2 (a vanishing language at the time of the empire), which was closely related to Coptic-1, the language ancient Egyptian's spoke and wrote in demotic and hieratic.​The take-away is a completely different perspective on Egyptian history.  Strabo was Greek and visited Alexandria about 10 years after the death of Cleopatra: two paragraphs are his entire coverage of the period.  Roman authors 200 years after her death outcompeted each other to see who could trash the "sexy, whore queen", instead of discussing the civil war that actually took place.  Arabs translated histories of the Egyptians themselves.​This isn't a dry textbook, it's entertaining reading and I can't recommend it more highly ... I go back to it just for fun. El-Daly covers the scholarship of Arabic Egyptology, as well as tomb robbing, Egyptian science, and ... yes ... Cleopatra.  Extremely well annotated.

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    Very informative
  

*by L***O on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 14, 2021*

I think it is worth it. It kills the myth that ancient Egypt suddenly died with the advent of Islam.

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    Excellent
  

*by J***1 on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 9, 2023*

A new and welcomed scope.

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