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462: 79: 30: 317: 484:, either thrown accidentally or deliberately, penetrated one of the windows of the Institute causing a massive fire. Fire brigade units were unable to promptly reach the scene of the blaze because of continued chaotic conditions on the streets. Volunteers, protesters from opposing factions, rushed into the burning building and were able to save many items and bring them to safety. 449:, a pioneering philologist. The Institut returned to Cairo in 1880. Its previous name was made official by a royal decree in 1918. Henceforth, it was directly under the Royal Palace's auspices. Some of the Institut's more recent members include famed scholar 773: 123:, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Knowledge (XXG). 487:
Before the blaze, the repository had held over 200,000 rare and antiquarian books and texts, many dating from the Napoleonic era. A first estimate says that only 30,000 volumes have been saved. Lost, however, were the
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The institute was organised into sections that cover all the topics of interest and study in mathematics, physics, political economy, literature and arts by the
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and is the oldest scientific institute in Egypt. The building in which it was housed was burnt down, with the loss of many documents, during the
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Un incendio durante los disturbios de El Cairo destruye el original de la 'Descripción de Egipto' encargada por Napoleón
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Opposing groups of protesters were engaged in street clashes, hurling flammable materials at each other adjacent to the
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The Institute was burnt down on 17 December 2011, as a consequence of continued street clashes in the aftermath of the
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and many other important works. It was incorrectly reported in the press that the original 20-volume manuscript
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so as to support the French expeditionary force. This was further supported by the publication of the
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12 members – mathematics section, including Bonaparte himself, Costaz, Fourier,
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The Institut capitalised on the work of scholars and technical experts of the
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The Institut d'Égypte's activities resumed in 1836 under the name of The
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by Francine Masson, director of the library of the École des mines,
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A black day for heritage: burning the Egyptian Scientific Institute
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The Institut d'Égypte was founded on 22 August 1798 by
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in 1859, and its name was again changed, this time to
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