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

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By (author): Kathleen Sheppard

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 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 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. Murrays work in the university led to the artists Amice Calverleys and Myrtle Broomes ability to work on site at Abydos, creating brilliant reproductions of tomb art, and to Kate Bradburys and Caroline Ransoms 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. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 500g
  • Dimensions: 166 x 243mm
  • Publication Date: 19 Aug 2024
  • Publisher: St Martin's Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781250284358

About Kathleen Sheppard

Kathleen Sheppard is an associate professor at Missouri S&T in Rolla Missouri. Sheppard earned her master's degree and Ph.D. in the history of science at the University of Oklahoma in 2006 and 2010 respectively. She earned a master's degree in Egyptian Archaeology at University College London in 2002. Sheppard is the author of the scientific biography of Margaret Alice Murray (Lexington Press 2013) and the newly published correspondence collection between Caroline Ransom Williams and James Henry Breasted from Archaeopress (2018). She is an administrator for the Histories of Archaeology Research Network (HARN) and a contributing editor for Lady Science and Bulletin for the History of Archaeology.

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