Smithsonian Magazine

How White Southerners Distorted the History of Ancient Egypt to Justify Slavery in the U.S.

American writers misleadingly interpreted Egypt's past to argue that slavery was a divinely sanctioned institution ...
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Smithsonian Channel Boards ‘Secrets of the Pyramid Builders’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Smithsonian Channel has boarded Ancient Egyptian docu-drama “Secrets of the Pyramid Builders” and will launch the series in the U.S. The channel has signed on as a co-producer on the six-parter from ...
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Nile Notes of a Howadji: American Travelers in Egypt

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Online exhibition that brings together selected travel accounts by Americans who visited Egypt in the nineteenth century. Many of the volumes, or ...
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Aswan (Assuan) Egyptian Tomb(s) at Moonlight, (painting)

Conzelman, Adrienne Ruger, "After the Hunt: The Art Collection of William B. Ruger," Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2002, pg. 193. "Perceptions and Evocations ...