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George Gliddon
American egyptologist (1809-1857) · United States · On the map · Academics · Died at 48
George Robbins Gliddon was an English-born American Egyptologist. He worked as a United States vice-consul in Egypt and assisted Muhammad Ali Pasha's plans to modernize Egypt by attaining sugar, rice, and other mills from the United States.
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The world as known to the Hebrews according to the Mosaic account (1854 map, Historical Textbook and Atlas of Biblical Geography by Lyman Coleman). A color-coded map of Noah's sons' - Ham, Shem, and Japheth - land
Drawings from Josiah C. Nott and George Gliddon's Indigenous races of the earth (1857), which promoted scientific racism with the suggestion that black people ranked between white people and chimpanzees in terms of intelligence![Figure 148 Types of Mankind p. 226 illustrated by Anne Gliddon[22]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Figure_126.jpg/500px-Figure_126.jpg)
Figure 148 Types of Mankind p. 226 illustrated by Anne Gliddon[22]About this person
In 1841, he became frustrated with Pasha's destruction of archaeological sites and wrote Appeal to the Antiquaries of Europe on the Destruction of the Monuments of Egypt.
Country
United States
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1809 to 1857 · aged 48
