Book ID: CBB147611092

Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age (2024)

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Sheppard, Kathleen L. (Author)


St. Martin's Press


Publication Date: 2024
Physical Details: 320
Language: English

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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Authors & Contributors
Sheppard, Kathleen L.
Barany, Michael J.
Buchwald, Jed Z.
Croizat-Glazer, Yassana
Frost, Robert
Gange, David
Journals
Antiquity
Bulletin of the History of Archaeology
History and Anthropology
History of Science
Lychnos
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Publishers
Oxford University Press
Princeton University Press
University of Oklahoma
Lexington Books
Lockwood Press
Manchester University Press
Concepts
Egyptology
Archaeology
Science and religion
Hieroglyphic writing
Mummies
Science and gender
People
Murray, Margaret
Horner, Leonard
Hekekyan, Joseph
Åkerblad, Johan David
Breasted, James Henry
Budge, E. A. Wallis
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
Ancient
18th century
16th century
Places
Egypt
Great Britain
France
Manchester (England)
England
Institutions
University College, London
British Museum
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