Egyptology: The Missing Millennium. Ancient Egy... Review

Medieval writers treated Ancient Egyptian sites as more than just sources of treasure or pagan ruins.

Centuries before Jean-François Champollion, Muslim scholars recognized that hieroglyphs were not just mystical symbols, but a phonetic language. Egyptology: The Missing Millennium. Ancient Egy...

Okasha El Daly’s groundbreaking work, Egyptology: The Missing Millennium , challenges the traditional narrative that interest in Ancient Egypt vanished between the Roman era and the Napoleonic invasion. By examining medieval Arabic manuscripts, El Daly reveals a rich tradition of scholarly inquiry that predates Western Egyptology by nearly a thousand years. The Myth of the "Silent Era" Claims Egyptology began in 1798. Medieval writers treated Ancient Egyptian sites as more