Many of the more portable relics were transferred to Cairo, and thence to Rosetta or Alexandria, in order to grace the museums of Paris.

The _savants_ proposed, but sea-power disposed, of these treasures.

They are now, with few exceptions, in the British Museum.
Apart from archaeology, much was done to extend the bounds of learning.
Astronomy gained much by the observations of General Caffarelli.

A series of measurements was begun for an exact survey of Egypt: the geologists and engineers examined the course of the Nile, recorded the progress of alluvial deposits at its mouth or on its banks, and therefrom calculated the antiquity of divers parts of the Delta.

No part of the great conqueror's career so aptly illustrates the truth of his noble words to the magistrates of the Ligurian Republic: "The true conquests, the only conquests which cost no regrets, are those achieved over ignorance." Such, in brief outline, is the story of the renascence in Egypt.