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Time Traveller’s Handbook

NAPOLEONIC EGYPT
WHO TO BEFRIEND WHOO TO AVOID
Dominique Vivant Denon Murad Beey FIG.04
This artist, writer and diplomat has somehow managed to Before the e French arrived,
Murad Bey effectively
survive the French Revolution, despite being a baron and a M
ants,
former friend of Louis XV. In Egypt, as one of Napoleon’s savants -ruled E Egypt as
Denon is almost like an embedded war cor on nt, travelling e head o ofthe
ar cor
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withthetroopsand ng sketches of the ancient ameluke Army.
ps and
monu nts, sometimes even when under t Murad d was
fire fro the enemy. The results will classed d by
be published in his book avels p oleon’s forces
Lower a dUpperEgyp in1802.t defea ated at the
Tag along with him to discover eoft the Pyramids.
temples d ruins, including ng retreated to
the ColossiofMemnon and th Up rEgy ypt, he’s
KioskofT Trajan. wagin
ng a guerrilla war
ai tGe enerals
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Napoleon’s s troops begin d ébe er.
marching e each day at 1am, when wev er,
it is still co . If you are exploring rad sf fickle
the ruins w with Denon during the d it tious. In
day, make s re you still get an 00, w will cut a deal
early night. ou’ll need to keep Y with K er refusing to
up with the lentless pace pport B ritish and Ottoman
of the army it pushes tempts t toousttheFrench and even
south in pur it of tively lpsuppressanuprisinginCairo
Murad Bey. in exchang e for governing Upper Egypt.

ri h skills contingent
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of 150 s avants and exp o e Egypt’s wonders

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engineers compilethe eir maps
of Egypt, you will be g get to
see the whole country y.

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ed
was confiscated
brought naturalists
by theBritish a and
to collect and
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catalogueplantsand
until 1822. An
animals, including
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the pufferfish and
of Ancient
crocodiles that lived
Greek would
on the Nile, and the
helptospeed
desert mongoose.
up the process s.
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