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The discovery of the past

by Alain Schnapp

1996 384 pages eng

The Discovery of the Past explores the ways in which humankind, from antiquity to the nineteenth century, became conscious of its past. Contrary to popular belief, archaeology was not an invention of the Renaissance. It was a discipline known to the scribes of ancient Assyria, Egypt, and China, and …

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