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During Napoleon's rule, Freemasonic circles in France invented rituals that allegedly first took place in the temple structures of ancient Egypt. This book looks at the cultural environment and intellectual background of one such pseudo-Egyptian secret society, the Sacred Order of the Sophisians. Founded in Paris in 1801, the Sophisian Order initially catered to veteran military leaders, Egyptologists, scientists, writers, and artists who had joined Napoleon's Egyptian campaign (1798-1801). Soon the order branched out to attract new adepts from the world of the Parisian stage. This study is based on previously unpublished archival materials relating to the Sophisians, including the group's so-called Golden Book at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. A richly illuminated manuscript envisioned by Marie-Nicolas Ponce-Camus, a student of Jacques-Louis David, the Golden Book features underground mazes, cave settings, pyramids, and temple structures as theatrical settings to re-create Ancient Egyptian initiation practices. The book includes seventeen color illustrations and forty-nine black-and-white illustrations.

A Military History of Modern Egypt by Andrew James McGregor,Andrew McGregor, McGregor

• Title : A Military History of Modern Egypt
• Author : Andrew James McGregor,Andrew McGregor, McGregor
• Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
• ISBN Code : 9780275986018
• Pages : 312
• Format : Pdf - ePub
• Language : English
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Focusing on the Egyptians instead of on the imperial powers that have ruled or intervened in the country, this work tells the untold story of Egyptian military's place in the modern history of the Arab and Islamic world.

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Dostoevsky Studies by N.A

• Title : Dostoevsky Studies
• Author : N.A
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• Language : English
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The Napoleon Gallery, Etc by Napoleon I (Emperor of the French)

• Title : The Napoleon Gallery, Etc
• Author : Napoleon I (Emperor of the French)
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• Language : English
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Hadrian's Wall by William Dietrich

• Title : Hadrian's Wall
• Author : William Dietrich
• Publisher : Zondervan
• ISBN Code : 9780061744808
• Pages : 400
• Format : Pdf - ePub
• Language : English
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A fusion of Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire and the movie Braveheart; a novel of ancient warfare, lethal politics, and the final great clash of Roman and Celtic culture. For three centuries, the stone barrier we know as Hadrian's Wall shielded Roman Britain from the unconquered barbarians of the island's northern highlands. But when Valeria, a senator's daughter, is sent to the Wall for an arranged marriage to an aristocratic officer in 367 AD, her journey unleashes jealousy, passion and epic war. Valeria's new husband, Marcus, has supplanted the brutally efficient veteran soldier Galba as commander of the famed Petriana cavalry. Yet Galba insists on escorting the bride–to–be on her journey to the Wall. Is he submitting to duty? Or plotting revenge? And what is the mysterious past of the handsome barbarian chieftain Arden Caratacus, who springs from ambush and who seems to know so much of hated Rome? As sharp as the edge of a spatha sword and as piercing as a Celtic arrow, Hadrian's Wall evokes a lost world of Roman ideals and barbaric romanticism.

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Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of Napoleon Bonaparte by Charles Angélique François Huchet comte de La Bédoyère

• Title : Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of Napoleon Bonaparte
• Author : Charles Angélique François Huchet comte de La Bédoyère
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The life of Napoleon Buonaparte. By W. Hazlitt, revised by his son by William Hazlitt

• Title : The life of Napoleon Buonaparte. By W. Hazlitt, revised by his son
• Author : William Hazlitt
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Napoleon's Proconsul in Egypt by Ronald T. Ridley

• Title : Napoleon's Proconsul in Egypt
• Author : Ronald T. Ridley
• Publisher : Stacey International
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• Pages : 372
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• Language : English
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The early 19th century was the heroic age of Egyptology. It was also largely dominated by Napoleon, who had led his ill-considered invasion of Egypt (1798-1799). The eastern Mediterranean was under the control of the ramshackle Ottoman Empire, from whom the Greeks were to win their War of Independence. Apart from its archaeological importance, Egypt was also one of the most important cockpits in the struggle amongst the various European powers and their fight against the Turks. Bernardino Drovetti was the French consul in Egypt for most of the early 19th century. After an important career in the Napoleonic army, he came to Egypt in 1803 where he was to play a leading role in many fields: diplomacy, politics, archaeology and exploration, amassing no fewer than three collections of antiquities.

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The Great Pyramid by John Taylor

• Title : The Great Pyramid
• Author : John Taylor
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• ISBN Code : 1108075789
• Pages : 340
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• Language : English
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The publisher and author John Taylor (1781-1864), who took an interest in various antiquarian matters, published this work in 1859. Using the measurements taken by the seventeenth-century archaeologist John Greaves and by the French savants who had examined the Great Pyramid at Giza during Napoleon's Egyptian expedition, he deduced the existence of a 'pyramid inch' (fractionally longer than the British inch), which was one twenty-fifth of the so-called 'sacred cubit' and was derived from ancient astronomical and time-measurement observations; and as a convinced Christian, he concluded that the British inch was therefore divinely inspired. His work was very influential and had a considerable following (the astronomer Charles Piazzi Smyth's 1864 book on Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid is also reissued in this series), but was later debunked by the more accurate surveys and measurements of Flinders Petrie, whose interest in Egypt was partly aroused by reading this book.

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The Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx by Giovanna Magi

• Title : The Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx
• Author : Giovanna Magi
• Publisher : Casa Editrice Bonechi
• ISBN Code : 9788847607347
• Pages : 32
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• Language : English
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Life of Napoleon by Antoine Henri baron de Jomini

• Title : Life of Napoleon
• Author : Antoine Henri baron de Jomini
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• Pages : 60
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• Language : English
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