The Shadow of the Obelisk

The Shadow of the Obelisk How the West Unearthed, Owned, and Reimagined Ancient Egypt

Three obelisks stand in Paris, London, and New York. None has faced the Nile in over a century.

This book traces two hundred years of Egypt's rediscovery-turned-extraction — from Napoleon's savants and Belzoni's gunpowder to the race science that tried to sever the pharaohs from Africa, the Hollywood curses and Tutmania crazes that made a civilization into spectacle, and the still-unresolved fights over the Rosetta Stone and the Nefertiti bust. Thirty chapters ask a question that has never stopped being urgent: who owns the memory of a civilization?

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E-bog: 9. september 2026