Egypt
Egypt Exploration Society
Moving beyond national narratives: the EES Committee Minutes.
With my favourite photo of Petrie :-)
- Book Review: Life Everlasting. National Museums Scotland Collection Of Ancient Egyptian Coffins
PalArch (Review by René van Walsem) B. & A. Dodson. 2010. Life Everlasting. National Museums Scotland Collection of Ancient Egyptian Coffins. – Edinburgh, National Museums Scotland. After an overview (without title, pp. 1-10) of the history of...
- Online Catalogue Underway Of 29,000 Of Petrie's Archaeological Finds In Egypt
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) When British Egyptologist Flinders Petrie came to Egypt in 1883 he explored several archaeological sites and revealed some of the country’s ancient history. According to Egyptian law at the time, archaeological dig sponsors...
- The Struggle To Document Egypt's Revolution
The Guardian, UK (Jack Shenker) Historians are racing to gather material for the national archives, but decisions about what to include have political significance. On any given evening Cairo's Tahrir Square creaks under the weight of its own recent...
- Online Resources: British Egyptological Society Directory
Sussex Egyptology Society The British Egyptological Society Directory, hosted by Sussex Egyptology Society, was updated on 23rd January 2010. Here's the introductory text. The full directory is available at the above page. The last few years have...
- Conference
I continue to recommend signing up to EEF if you want to keep tabs on conferences. I only pick up on those which haven't appeared on EEF or which I find of particular interest. This one falls into the latter category Preliminary Call for Papers....
Egypt
The EES - Moving beyond national narratives
Egypt Exploration Society
Moving beyond national narratives: the EES Committee Minutes.
William Carruthers, a recipient of the Society's Centenary Award in 2009-10 and a regular visitor to the Society's archives, is now pursuing doctoral research into the history of Egyptology in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Here, Will explains how the records of EES Committee meetings can reveal the influence of certain individuals and institutions on the development of our subject.
Histories of Egyptology can suffer from their narrowness. Whilst not always true, it is simple to find Egyptological histories at the national level, or ‘heroic’ biographies of prominent figures in national Egyptological discourses. In the history of British Egyptology, for example, Petrie is often seen as a heroic British figure. My research seeks to move beyond such narratives. Whilst I am looking at certain prominent figures – Walter Bryan Emery (1903-1971), at one time the EES’ Field Director and a so-called ‘giant’ of British Egyptology, amongst them – it is clear that their careers are not simply embedded in national contexts.
With my favourite photo of Petrie :-)
- Book Review: Life Everlasting. National Museums Scotland Collection Of Ancient Egyptian Coffins
PalArch (Review by René van Walsem) B. & A. Dodson. 2010. Life Everlasting. National Museums Scotland Collection of Ancient Egyptian Coffins. – Edinburgh, National Museums Scotland. After an overview (without title, pp. 1-10) of the history of...
- Online Catalogue Underway Of 29,000 Of Petrie's Archaeological Finds In Egypt
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) When British Egyptologist Flinders Petrie came to Egypt in 1883 he explored several archaeological sites and revealed some of the country’s ancient history. According to Egyptian law at the time, archaeological dig sponsors...
- The Struggle To Document Egypt's Revolution
The Guardian, UK (Jack Shenker) Historians are racing to gather material for the national archives, but decisions about what to include have political significance. On any given evening Cairo's Tahrir Square creaks under the weight of its own recent...
- Online Resources: British Egyptological Society Directory
Sussex Egyptology Society The British Egyptological Society Directory, hosted by Sussex Egyptology Society, was updated on 23rd January 2010. Here's the introductory text. The full directory is available at the above page. The last few years have...
- Conference
I continue to recommend signing up to EEF if you want to keep tabs on conferences. I only pick up on those which haven't appeared on EEF or which I find of particular interest. This one falls into the latter category Preliminary Call for Papers....