NMC260Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Jean-François Champollion, Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Flinders Petrie
5 May 2016
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Chronology of pre and proto-historic periods and archaeology. The law of superposition: the lower down you go the older it is. Radiocarbon dating naturally present in the air. Not very critical believed everything he was told hence called father of lies. Strabo: 1st bce / 1st ce greek geographer. Originally done by people on pilgrimages to see the land of the bible. Europeans decided to cut off the middle men and go in the far eat for their own trade. European richer class went to the near east for adventure and exotic and for the art. Pietro della valle first explorer to go to the ancient sites and brought back the culture of mesopotamia. The rosetta stone learnt how to read hieroglyphics. Giovanni belzoni brought more goods from the ancient world to europe. Trend of memoirs talks about his explorations of egypt. Ceramic seriation changes in shape over time. Howard carter king tut"s tomb in 1922.
