Scramble for the Past: A Story of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire, 1753-1914 by Zeynep Çelik, Edhem Eldem, Zainab Bahrani
Scramble for the Past: A Story of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire, 1753-1914

Zeynep Çelik, Edhem Eldem, Zainab Bahrani

Scramble for the Past: A Story of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire, 1753-1914

Zeynep Çelik, Edhem Eldem, Zainab Bahrani

519 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative mysterious medium-paced

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Beginning in the mid-eighteenth century, European scholars and amateurs poured into Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and Mesopotamia to explore, dig, catalogue, and cart home the material remains of the ancient world. The collections they am...

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