《黄沙下的世界》内容简介

　　西方对古埃及的迷恋可以追溯到古希腊，而收藏埃及文物的做法早在古罗马就已相当普遍。没有什么能比在埃及的黄沙中挖掘法老时代的黄金宝藏更令人兴奋。几个世纪以来，尼罗河的文物一直是西方人想象力和灵感的源泉。在此基础上，逐渐形成了一门真正的学科——埃及学。

　　19世纪至20世纪初是埃及学的鼎盛时期，这一复杂年代见证了所有伟大的发现，促使西方反复出现“埃及热”。这一学术研究与探险故事的黄金时代以两个划时代的事件为始终：1822年商博良破译象形文字，以及整整100年后图坦卡蒙墓的发现。前者提供了解开法老文明之谜的钥匙，促使人们不顾一切地不断前往埃及寻找更多文物；后者展现了法老文明的繁荣和复杂，为西方在埃及的主导地位敲响了丧钟。

　　剑桥埃及考古学家托比·威尔金森的《黄沙下的世界》以埃及学发展的时间线为主轴，对埃及学的产生及其黄金时代的探险和考古做了一次全方位的还原。他对埃及学的梳理，帮助我们逐渐看清一个真实的古埃及文明——从一个充满神秘感的智慧的源头，到《圣经》和古典文献框架中的异类，再到与古罗马帝国共享荣光的文明。

　　《黄沙下的世界》在记录英、法、德、美四国为争夺古埃及文物而展开的宏大探险以及残醋竞争和掠夺的同时，也折射了被欧洲殖民侵略的埃及是如何一路坎坷走进现代化进程的。书中讲述了形形色色的人——不择手段的文物经销商、挑战新奇事物的探险家、投身学问的考古学家、老谋深算的外交官、执迷欧化的埃及统治者，以及发生在他们身上的一个个引人入胜的故事。他们对古埃及文明的痴迷，改变了我们对尼罗河流域及其人民的认知，增进了我们对于当地丰富多彩的历史文化的理解，同时也对埃及造成了深远的影响。无论出于何种动机，采用何种方法，他们历时一个多世纪的探险和考古，在一定程度上都对埃及学的

　　发展产生了影响，并为我们揭示了一个被埋在黄沙之下几个世纪的失落世界。

　　作者简介

　　[英]托比·威尔金森（TobyWilkinson）

　　托比·威尔金森是国际享有盛誉的埃及考古学家，也是国际青年埃及学学者中的佼佼者。他出生于英国，毕业于剑桥大学，曾获剑桥大学唐宁学院埃及学一等荣誉学位。现任斐济国立大学副校长及剑桥克莱尔学院研究员。

　　他是古物专家学会及皇家历史学会会员，也是《埃及历史期刊》国际编辑委员会成员。他曾在布托遗址和孟菲斯遗址进行考古发掘和研究工作。已出版埃及学专著10多部，包括《黄沙下的世界》《图坦卡蒙的号角》《古埃及兴亡史》《尼罗河》等等，相关写作曾获得赫塞尔-蒂尔特曼历史奖，受到学术界关注及大众欢迎。

Introduction to the World Under the Yellow Sand

The West's fascination with ancient Egypt dates back to the ancient Greeks, and the practice of collecting Egyptian antiquities was widespread in ancient Rome. There is nothing more exciting than excavating Pharaonic gold treasures in the yellow sands of Egypt. For centuries, the artifacts of the Nile have been a source of imagination and inspiration for Westerners. On this basis, a real discipline, Egyptology, was gradually formed.

The 19th and early 20th centuries were the heyday of Egyptology, a complex period that saw all the great discoveries that prompted repeated "Egyptmania" in the West. This golden age of scholarship and adventure stories was marked by two epochal events: Champollion's deciphering of hieroglyphs in 1822, and the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb exactly 100 years later. The former provided the key to unlock the mystery of Pharaohs, prompting people to keep going to Egypt in desperate search of more artifacts; The latter shows the prosperity and complexity of pharaonic civilization and sounds the death knell for Western dominance in Egypt.

Cambridge Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson's The World Under the Sand takes the timeline of the development of Egyptology as the main axis, and makes a comprehensive restoration of the emergence of Egyptology and its golden age of exploration and archaeology. His work on Egyptology helps us to see what ancient Egypt really was - from a mysterious source of wisdom, to the outliers in the framework of the Bible and classical literature, to a civilization that shared its glory with the Roman Empire.

"The World Under the Yellow Sand" records the great exploration of Britain, France, Germany and the United States for the ancient Egyptian cultural relics and the competition and plunder of vinegar, but also reflects how the European colonial invasion of Egypt is a bumpy road into the process of modernization. The book tells the fascinating stories of a diverse group of people - unscrupulous antiquities dealers, novelty-defying explorers, scholarly archaeologists, wily diplomats, European-obsessed Egyptian rulers. Their fascination with ancient Egyptian civilization has changed our understanding of the Nile Valley and its people, enhancing our understanding of the rich history and culture of the region, and has had a profound impact on Egypt. Whatever their motives and methods, their exploration and archaeology, which lasted for more than a century, were in part Egyptological

Development has had an impact and revealed to us a lost world that had been buried under the yellow sand for centuries.

About the author

[E] TobyWilkinson

Toby Wilkinson is an internationally acclaimed Egyptologist and a leading international young Egyptologist. He was born in England and graduated from Cambridge University, where he received a first class honours degree in Egyptology from Downing College, Cambridge. He is currently Vice-Chancellor of Fiji National University and Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge.

He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquarians and the Royal Historical Society, and a member of the International editorial Board of the Journal of Egyptian History. He has conducted archaeological excavations and research at the sites of Bhutto and Memphis. He has published more than 10 monographs on Egyptology, including The World Under the Yellow Sand, Tutankhamun's Horn, the History of the Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt, and the Nile, etc. His related writings have won the Hessel-Tiltman History Prize, which has received academic attention and public popularity.