THE GEBEL BARKAL STELAE AND THE DISCOVERY OF ANCIENT NUBIA: Auguste Mariette's Inspiration for Aïda

Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aïda, first performed in 1871, goes back to a scenario suggested in 1865 by French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette. It can be shown that Mariette took his inspiration from the five historical stelae discovered at Gebel Barkal on the fourth cataract of the Nile, the ancient...

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Main Author: Schneider, Thomas (Author)
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Published: University of Chicago Press 2015
In: Near Eastern archaeology
Year: 2015, Volume: 78, Issue: 1, Pages: 44-51
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