Book ID: CBB937425407

Tea on the terrace: Hotels and Egyptologists’ social networks, 1885–1925 (2022)

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Sheppard, Kathleen L. (Author)


Manchester University Press


Publication Date: 2022
Physical Details: 232
Language: English

Tea on the terrace takes the reader on a journey up and down the Nile with famous archaeologists and Egyptologists. Spending time with these fascinating men and women at their hotels and on their boats, the book reveals that a great deal of archaeological work took place away from field sites and museums.Arriving in Alexandria, travellers such as Americans Theodore Davis, Emma Andrews and James Breasted, and Britons Wallis Budge, Maggie Benson and Howard Carter moved on to Cairo before heading south for Luxor, the site of the Ancient Egyptian city of Thebes. The book follows them on their journey, listening in on their conversations and observing their activities. Applying insights from social studies of science, it reveals that hotels in particular were crucial spaces for establishing careers, building and strengthening scientific networks, and generating and experimenting with new ideas.Combining archaeological tourism with the history of Egyptology, and drawing on a wide array of archival materials, Tea on the terrace takes the reader behind the scenes of familiar stories, showing Egyptologists’ activities in a whole new light.

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Authors & Contributors
Sheppard, Kathleen L.
Luckhurst, Roger
Dorothy U. Seyler
Wiedemann, Felix
Gold, Meira
Roberta Muñoz
Concepts
Egyptology
Archaeology
Biographies
Science and religion
Artifacts
Science and race
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
Ancient
Places
Egypt
Great Britain
Levant and Near East
Middle and Near East
Ancient Near and Middle East: Egypt, Sumer, Babylon, Assyria, Mesopotamia, Palestine, Persia
England
Institutions
University College, London
British Museum
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