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Get the Summary of Lynne Olson's Empress of the Nile in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Christiane Desroches Noblecourt, a pioneering French Egyptologist, was raised in an intellectually stimulating environment that fostered her curiosity and led her to study Egyptology. Under the mentorship of Étienne Drioton at the Louvre, she became a project manager at a young age, cataloging Egyptian objects. Despite the political...
2) Empress of the Nile: the daredevil archaeologist who saved Egypt's ancient temples from destruction
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"The remarkable story of the intrepid French archaeologist who led the international effort to save ancient Egyptian temples from the floodwaters of the Aswan Dam, by the New York Times bestselling author of Madame Fourcade's Secret War In the 1960s, the world's attention was focused on a nail-biting race against time: Fifty countries contributed nearly a billion dollars to save a dozen ancient Egyptian temples, built during the height of the pharaohs'...
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