Carsten Niebuhr Describes the near East
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The first European scientific expedition to the Near East, dispatched in 1761, was an unlucky one for its crew. One after another they died, until the ...
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Carsten Niebuhr
1733-1815
German explorer who was the only survivor of the 1761 Danish expedition to Arabia. While in Egypt, he was the first person to make an accurate
copy of hieroglyphics, and in ...
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Carsten Niebuhr Describes the near East