“But it was a fast way of saying he took Egypt.” There is no evidence that French invaders launched artillery at the pyramids, or that Napoleon’s troops shot the nose off the ...

Napoleon won Egypt but he would barely hold onto it for ... being called a “cartouche,” the French word for a military rifle’s “cartridge.” Most important of all was the discovery ...

When Napoleon invaded Egypt in 1798, he brought along an 'army' of scholars, whose studies of this ancient culture became the foundation of Egyptology. Jean-Léon Gérôme’s painting ...

It was a meeting between the Europe of the future and the Egypt of the past. HORWARD: Napoleon just organized his army into five gigantic squares. These are men kneeling and standing and firing so ...

When Napoleon invaded Egypt, he brought dozens of scientists with him. Astronomers, mathematicians, and naturalists spent three years studying the country. Napoleon's invasion failed, but it led ...