Napoleon Bonaparte's excursion into Egypt in the late eighteenth century was far more important to the world than even he had planned. As a new sense of amazement and discovery came over the French invaders, their leader came to realize the need to document their cultural and scientific findings. This book takes an illustrated view of their recordings and how the French expedition, though a military and political fiasco, changed the face of the earth by revealing the splendor of a mysterious and forgotten civilization.