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Article: Rivals In the Hunt For History; Two Archaeologists Vie to Recover Wonders of Ancient Egypt
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- The Washington Post
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- June 30, 1999
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It is a classic rivalry. The bookworm vs. the entrepreneur. The
scholar who reads Latin and used a centuries-old travel chronicle to
help identify -- or maybe not -- the remains of Alexandria's fabled
lighthouse vs. the corporate-backed, media-wise adventurer who used a
nuclear resonance magnetometer to find -- or maybe not -- the site of
Cleopatra's palace.
The prize that Sorbonne-educated Jean-Yves Empereur and high-
glitz
arch rival Franck Goddio are vying for is no small matter -- bragging
rights to the recovery of Alexandria's glittering Pharaonic and
Hellenic history, one of the central undertakings in contemporary
Egyptology.
Egypt has seen ambitious archaeologists before; it is a ...
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