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03464aam a22003378i 4500 001 8EF12E68383D11EFA74ADF9234ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240702013519 008 240202s2024 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2024003605 020 $a 125028435X 020 $a 9781250284358 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d DLC $d SILO 050 00 $a DT76.8 $b .S54 2024 082 00 $a 932.007202 $2 23/eng/20240315 100 1 $a Sheppard, Kathleen L., $d 1979- $e author. 245 10 $a Women in the Valley of the Kings : $b the untold story of women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age / $c Kathleen Sheppard. 250 $a First edition. 263 $a 2407 264 1 $a New York : $b St. Martin's Press, $c 2024. 300 $a pages cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Notes on the text -- Prologue -- Amelia Edwards and Marianne Brocklehurst -- Maggie Benson and Nettie Gourlay -- Emma Andrews -- Margaret Alice Murray -- Kate Griffith and Emily Paterson -- Myrtle Broome and Amice Calverley -- Caroline Ransom Williams --Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Image permissions -- Index 520 $a "The never-before-told story of the women Egyptologists who paved the way of exploration in Egypt and created the basis 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 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 thesewomen 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 thevast 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 Templeof 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. Murray's work in theuniversity led to the artists Amice Calverley's and Myrtle Broome's ability to work on site at Abydos, creating brilliant reproductions of tomb art, and to Kate Bradbury's and Caroline Ransom's leadership in critical Egyptological institutions. Women inthe 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Women Egyptologists $v Biography. 650 0 $a Egyptologists $v Biography. 650 0 $a Egyptology $x History. 650 0 $a Excavations (Archaeology) $z Egypt $x History. 941 $a 1 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20240702030102.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8EF12E68383D11EFA74ADF9234ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search