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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University of Chicago Press
2015
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Near Eastern archaeology
Year: 2015, Volume: 78, Issue: 1, Pages: 44-51 |
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