“Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

Women in the Valley of the Kings tells the stories of some of the women who built the discipline of Egyptology, both in the field and at home. Each of these women, alone and together, has an amazing story to tell.

Written over one another like a stratigraphy of heartache, happiness, struggle, and success, these women overcame rules meant to keep them out of a discipline not built for them. Women were major characters in the stories about many major finds in Egypt, but they are rarely mentioned (if at all).