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Two hundred years ago, only the most reckless or eccentric Europeans had dared to traverse the unmapped territory of the modern-day Middle East. However in 1798, more than 150 French engineers, artists, doctors, and scientists—even a poet and a musicologist—traveled to the Nile Valley under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte and his invading army. Hazarding hunger, hardship, uncertainty, and disease, Napoleon's "savants" risked their lives in pursuit of discovery. The first large-scale interaction between Europeans and Muslims in the present day era, the audacious expedition was both a triumph and a disaster, leading to finds of immense historical and scientific importance (including the ruins of the colossal pyramids and the Rosetta Stone) and in many tragic deaths through plague, privation, madness, or violence. Acclaimed journalist Nina Burleigh brings readers back again to the landmark adventure at the dawn of the present day era that ultimately revealed the deepest secrets of ancient Egypt to a curious continent.
