The millionaire and the mummies
Theodore Davis's Gilded Age in the Valley of the Kings
by John M. Adams
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At the start of the twentieth century, Theodore Davis was the most famous archaeologist in the world; his career turned tomb-robbing and treasure-hunting into a science. Using six of Davis's most important discoveries-- from the female Pharaoh Hatshepsut's sarcophagus to the exquisite shabti statuettes looted from the Egyptian Museum not too long ago-- Adams chronicles the dizzying rise of a poor country preacher's son who, through corruption and fraud, amassed tremendous wealth in Gilded Age New York and then atoned for his ruthless career by inventing new standards for systematic excavation.
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The millionaire and the mummies: Theodore Davis's Gilded Age in the Valley of the Kings
2013, St. Martin's Press
in English
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1250026695 9781250026699
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-345) and index.
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