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The Description de l'Égypte contains two volumes (out a total of 24) on the area around Thebes.

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This became the Description de l'Égypte, to which he also wrote a lengthy historical preface on the ancient civilization of Egypt.

"Napoleon on the Nile," centered around almost 90 engravings from the "Description de l'Égypte," 23 outsize volumes assembled by Napoleon's "savants" during the French occupation there, runs through Dec. 31.

His ships had famously ferried over not just soldiers but a small army of French mathematicians, inventors, scientists, artists and writers, and these savants explored the pyramids, discovered the Rosetta stone and assembled material for the "Description de l'Égypte," the 24-volume masterpiece that was published years later.

Among the books is a rare original copy of the Description de l'Egypt, the first extensive illustrated text on Egyptian antiquities, temples, and monuments.

Over the next 26 years, the scientific veterans compiled the magnificent "Description de l'Égypte," an oversize 24-volume encyclopedia published serially for wealthy subscribers, encompassing not only the natural history of Egypt but a history of its people, descriptions of the Pyramids and other monuments, and details of daily life, commerce and agriculture.

Félix Teynard was a civil engineer from Grenoble who wanted to update with photographs the vast "Description de l'Égypte," the lavish volumes of oversized engravings published by Napoleon's team of savants decades earlier.

Their reports and monographs were collected in the monumental Description de l'Égypte ("Description of Egypt"), which was published in parts from 1809 to 1828 in Paris.

Their efforts culminated in the encyclopedic "Description de l'Égypte," published in complete form only in 1829, some 30 years after the Egyptian campaign began and almost a decade after Napoleon's death in exile.

In the spirit of Fox Talbot's manifesto for photography, "The Pencil of Nature," the photographers of the mid-century saw themselves as technicians of truth, light-years ahead of the draftsmen who had created the classic, multi-volume "Description de l'Égypte," which was published between 1809 and 1828.