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

Zainab Bahrani, Edhem Eldem, Zeynep Çelik

519 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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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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