Publisher's Synopsis
The French invasion led to Egypt; To ignite the national passion for everything related to the ancient "pharaonic" history of Egypt, for Napoleon not only came to conquer Egypt, but also brought with him more than 150 scientists, from cartographers, artists, natural scientists, and even musicologists and painters; To monitor the details of ancient sites and existing customs, and the result was the huge work "Description of Egypt", which was published between 1809 - 1829, in twenty volumes, containing about 900 inscriptions. Among these skilled painters was Adam François Jomard (1777-1862) Edme François Jomard, who had the greatest merit in editing a book describing Egypt in its parts, and he contributed to the book with many distinctive drawings of Egyptian antiquities, botany, fish species, and maps in each of Esna, Dendera, the pyramids of Giza, Assiut, Fayoum, Alexandria, and some other governorates. Jomar contributed to the production of the first photographic photograph taken in Egypt at the end of 1839. The French scientist François Arago (1786-1853) François Arago expressed his sorrow; Because photography had not been invented yet, when he said, "Everyone will imagine the extraordinary advantages that can be derived from a very accurate and fast method, during the" expedition to Egypt "- as he said - as he said while announcing in Paris on January 7, 1839. The invention of photography designed by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (1787-1851) to copy millions of hieroglyphs that cover the outer surface of the great monuments in Thebes, Memphis, Karnak, and others. It will take decades and legions of painters But with Daguerre's invention, one person suffices to do so.
