French Romanticism and the Cultural Politics of Archaeology
by
Göran Blix
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
In the early nineteenth century, as amateur archaeologists excavated Pompeii, Egypt, Assyria, and the first prehistoric sites, a myth arose of archaeology as a magical science capable of unearthing and reconstructing worlds thought to be irretrievably lost. This timely myth provided an urgent antidote...