Women in the Valley of the Kings : the untold story women egyptologists in the Gilded Age

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Women in the Valley of the Kings : the untold story women egyptologists in the Gilded Age / Kathleen Sheppard. - First edition. - New York : St. Martin's Press, 2024. - [12], 306, [1] strony ; 25 cm.

Author

Sheppard Kathleen. Autor

Form of Work

Książki Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

Demographic Group

Literatura amerykańska

Subject

Archeolodzy Egiptologia Kobieta Egipt

Genre/Form

Pamiętniki i wspomnienia Relacja z podróży

Domain

Archeologia Podróże i turystyka

Książka w języku angielskim. The never-before-told story of the women Egyptologists who paved the way who paved the way for exploration in Egypt and laid the groundwork 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.

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Bibliography, etc. note

Bibliografia na stronach 242-258. Indeks.

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