Rape of the Nile, the

12 February '16

In the wake of Napoleon’s armies a scramble for the antiquities of Egypt began which was to fill the museums of Europe with unscrupulously – and often spectacularly – acquired booty. Compared to the wholesale looting of temples and monuments in the 19th century, the earlier efforts of Theban tomb-robbers, Roman obelisk-stealers and Arab mummy […]