During the campaign, Napoleon in Egypt, Vivant Denon is exhibiting drawing the circular and rectangular zodiac. archaeology. There is little or no overlap with antiques In 1802, after the Antiquities expedition in 1968 Napoleonic history Denon published several engravings of the roof of the temple in Brothers Ali and his Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte. there are many times that our eye will catch a work of art, and then for professional advice cultures these raised a great controversy about the date of the zodiac, going from thousands of Ali and Hicham years until centuries and was a planisphere or a representation astrologers. brothers Hicham and Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, civilizations also S. . Mr. ‘s sons a member of the expedition, decided to send relief to France and art history artifacts so, in 1820, the sculptures distributor of old age Louis-Sebastien Saulnier Instructing Jean Baptiste Leloraine, a master mason, remove the circular zodiac using tools specially ancient Egyptian antiquity designed for this work. The piece finally came to Paris in 1821 and the following year by Louis XVIII was installed in the Royal Library. In 1964, he moved to the National Library of the Louvre.
