Institut d'Égypte

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Institut d'Égypte, January 2012

The Institut d'Égypte ( Arabic المجمع العلمي المصري) was a library in Cairo . Its origins go back to the year 1798 and Napoleon's Egyptian expedition .

The collection represented Egypt's most valuable collection of historical books. It included almost 200,000 volumes, tens of thousands of maps, magazines from two centuries, the atlas of Upper and Lower Egypt from 1752 and the first printing of the 24-volume Description de l'Égypte , Written by French scholars in the wake of Napoleon.

The institute burned down on December 17, 2011. Around 50,000 units were salvaged, some severely damaged and soaked.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Egypt Independent: ( Amid army crackdown, Egypt's richest library set on fire ) Retrieved December 24, 2011.
  2. ↑ Cairo: Institut d'Égypte was on fire ( Memento of December 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on December 24, 2011.
  3. ^ Institut d'Égypte burned down in Cairo: two centuries crumbled to ash , accessed on December 26, 2011.

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