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In November 1829, shortly before he embarked on his return journey to Europe from Alexandria, Champollion finally wrote his ‘Note’ to the Egyptian viceroy Mehmet Ali in which he listed monuments and suggested measures to protect them—as though he were leaving behind his idealistic legacy to the country.
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Since British colonial rule called Kitchener’s Island.
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The Valley of the Kings.
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Champollion (1909: 443–448).
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Champollion, Jean-François. 1909b. Lettres et journaux écrits pendant le voyage d’Égypte, recueillis et annotés par Hermine Hartleben. Bibliothèque Égyptologique 31 (= Lettres de Champollion le jeune II, 1828–1829). Edited by G. Maspero. Paris: E. Leroux.
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Messling, M. (2023). Note to the Attention of the Viceroy for the Conservation of the Monuments of Egypt. In: Philology and the Appropriation of the World . Socio-Historical Studies of the Social and Human Sciences. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12894-3_7
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