The Digital Collection of Description de l’Egypte
The BA has taken the initiative to digitize the 200-year old original masterpiece, Description de l’Egypte—a 20-volume book that was produced during Napoleon Bonaparte’s military expedition to Egypt in 1798. The book is the collaborative work of 150 prominent scientists and scholars in addition to some 2000 talented artists and technicians that were assigned to capture the Egyptian culture and civilization in unmatched depth and detail. The BA has digitized and integrated the whole collection on a free-to-access, online, multi-featured searchable interface tailored for the user’s convenience.