Labib Habachi [[electronic resource] ] : the life and legacy of an Egyptologist / / Jill Kamil

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459255203321
• Autore: Kamil Jill
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cairo, : American University in Cairo Press, 2007
• ISBN: 1-61797-018-2; 1-61797-377-7; 1-936190-55-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (361 p.)
• Disciplina: 932.007202
• Soggetti: Egyptologists; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 9789774160615; 9789774160615
• Sommario/riassunto: Labib Habachi, Egypt's most perceptive and productive Egyptologist, was marginalized for most of his career, only belatedly receiving international recognition for his major contributions to the field. In Labib Habachi: The Life and Legacy of an Egyptologist, Jill Kamil presents not only a long-overdue biography of this important scholar, but a survey of Egyptian archaeology in the twentieth century in which Habachi's work is measured against that of his best-known contemporaries-among them Selim Hassan, Ahmed Fakhry, Abdel Moneim Abu Bakr, and Gamal Mokhtar.The account of Habachi's major disc