This course will look at a history of Western Egyptology that participants never knew they never knew! Familiar figures like Stuart Poole, William Matthew Flinders Petrie, Howard Carter, and James Breasted will appear, but only as background figures. Instead, focusing on the UK and the US, women will take the stage as the main characters in the foundational work of Western Egyptology for a century. The impact of women like Maggie Benson, Emma Andrews, and Caroline Ransom Williams will be discussed and analysed through their work as travellers, excavators, teachers, and curators.

It will take place completely on Zoom.

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