It was not until 1798, when an unlikely band of scientific explorers traveled from Paris to the Nile Valley, that Westerners received their first real glimpse of what lay beyond the Mediterranean Sea. Under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Army, a small and little-known corps of Paris's brightest intellectual lights embarked on a thirty-day crossing into the unknown. Over 150 astronomers, mathematicians, naturalists, physicists, doctors, chemists, engineers, botanists, artists, even a poet and a musicologist accompanied Napoleon's troops into Egypt amd participated in the first large-scale interaction between Europeans and Muslims of the modern era. An expedition that ultimately revealed the deepest secrets of ancient Egypt to a very curious continent. 
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