Historian/writer Jason Thompson will discuss travel to Egypt during the European Grand Tour era and talk about his new book, Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology: From Antiquity to 1881.
The program takes place in Central’s Carnegie Room on July 9 at 7 p.m.
Wonderful Things is a story of the people—famous and obscure—who constructed the picture of ancient Egypt that we have today, recovered the Egyptian past while inventing it anew, and made a lost civilization comprehensible to generations of readers and viewers thousands of years later.
For more details or to register, contact Brenda McDonald at 314.539.0348 or bmcdonald@slpl.org.
