At the Grand Egyptian Museum: New Pharaonism
Neal Spencer, 5 February 2026
The story of archaeology in Egypt usually begins with the Napoleonic expedition of 1798-1801 and Jean-François Champollion’s decipherment of hieroglyphs in 1822. That’s the European side of the story: Arab scholars had already been recording and debating pharaonic monuments and scripts for centuries. In the 19th century, the Ottoman khedive (or viceroy) Muhammad Ali and...
