Sheppard, Kathleen L. (Author)
The never-before-told story of the women Egyptologists who paved the way of exploration in Egypt and created the basis for Egyptology.The history of Egyptology is often told as yet one more grand narrative of powerful men striving to seize the day and the precious artifacts for their competing homelands. But that is only half of the story. During the so-called Golden Age of Exploration, there were women working and exploring before Howard Carter discovered the tomb of King Tut. Before men even conceived of claiming the story for themselves, women were working in Egypt to lay the groundwork for all future exploration. In Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age, Kathleen Sheppard brings the untold stories of these women back into this narrative. Sheppard begins with some of the earliest European women who ventured to Egypt as travelers: Amelia Edwards, Jenny Lane, and Marianne Brocklehurst. Their travelogues, diaries and maps chronicled a new world for the curious. In the vast desert, Maggie Benson, the first woman granted permission to excavate in Egypt, met Nettie Gourlay, the woman who became her lifelong companion. They battled issues of oppression and exclusion and, ultimately, are credited with excavating the Temple of Mut. As each woman scored a success in the desert, she set up the women who came later for their own struggles and successes. Emma Andrews’ success as a patron and archaeologist helped to pave the way for Margaret Murray to teach. Margaret’s work in the university led to the artists Amice Calverley’s and Myrtle Broome’s ability to work on site at Abydos, creating brilliant reproductions of tomb art, and to Kate Bradbury’s and Caroline Ransom’s leadership in critical Egyptological institutions. Women in the Valley of the Kings upends the grand male narrative of Egyptian exploration and shows how a group of courageous women charted unknown territory and changed the field of Egyptology forever.
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(2022)
Tea on the terrace: Hotels and Egyptologists’ social networks, 1885–1925
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Sheppard, Kathleen L.;
(2013)
The Life of Margaret Alice Murray: A Woman's Work in Archaeology
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Sheppard, Kathleen L.;
(2010)
The Lady and the Looking Glass: Margaret Murray's Life in Archaeology
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Roberta Muñoz;
(2017)
Amelia Edwards in America – A Quiet Revolution in Archaeological Science
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Sheppard, Kathleen L.;
(2014)
Margaret Alice Murray and Archaeological Training in the Classroom: Preparing “Petrie's Pups”
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Sheppard, Kathleen L.;
(2012)
Between Spectacle and Science: Margaret Murray and the Tomb of the Two Brothers
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(2012)
Science versus Rumour: Artefaction and Counter-Narrative in the Egyptian Rooms of the British Museum
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(2022)
A geologist and an Egyptologist in conversation: Sir Charles Lyell and Sir John Gardner Wilkinson
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(2015)
The Obelisk and the Englishman: The Pioneering Discoveries of Egyptologist William Bankes
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(2010)
Great Pyramid Metrology and the Material Politics of Basalt
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(2013)
Dialogues with the Dead: Egyptology in British Culture and Religion, 1822--1922
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(2010)
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(2018)
Ancient Egypt and the Geological Antiquity of Man, 1847–1863
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Thomasson, Fredrik;
(2010)
Att läsa egyptiska. J. D. Åkerblad och orientaliska studier under invasion och krig
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(2015)
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(2015)
The Catacombs of Anubis at North Saqqara
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Sanchez, Gonzalo M;
Meltzer, Edmund S;
(2012)
The Edwin Smith Papyrus: Updated Translation of the Trauma Treatise and Modern Medical Commentaries
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(2014)
The State of the Archive: Manipulating Memory in Modern Egypt and the Writing of Egyptological Histories
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(2016)
Mathematics in Ancient Egypt: A Contextual History
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(2013)
The Role of Ancient Egypt in Masquerades at the Court of François Ier
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