A History of World Egyptology

Andrew Bednarski is an Egyptologist, nineteenth-century historian, and currently an Affiliated Scholar at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge. He worked for many years for the American Research Center in Egypt, facilitating and directing projects in Cairo and Luxor. He has extensive excavation experience and has lectured and published broadly on ancient Egypt and its reception in the modern world. He has appeared in a number of televised documentaries. Aidan Dodson is both an Egyptologist and a naval historian, and has taught at the University of Bristol since 1996, where he is now honorary full Professor of Egyptology; he was Chair of the Egypt Exploration Society from 2011 to 2016. A Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, he is the author of more than twenty-five books and some four hundred articles and reviews, covering both his academic interests. He has lectured all over the world and often appeared on television and radio. Salima Ikram is Distinguished University Professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a National Geographic Explorer, her research interests include ancient Egyptian food, funerary practices, rock art, and archaeozoology. She has published extensively for diverse audiences and has frequently appeared on television and radio.

• Preface; Abbreviations and conventions used in the text; A note on academic titles; The contributors; Maps; Introduction; 1. The prehistory of Egyptology, Aidan Dodson, Salima Ikram and Andrew Bednarski; 2. Egypt, Salima Ikram and Amr Omar; 3. France, Philippe Mainterot; 4. The British Isles, Aidan Dodson; 5. The Netherlands, Maarten Raven; 6. Belgium, Jean-Michel Bruffaerts; 7. The Nordic countries, Tine Bagh; 8. Prussia and Germany, Thomas Gertzen, Susanne Voss and Maximilian Georg; 9. Austria, Ernst Czerny and Hana Navratilova; 10. Switzerland, Aurélie Cuenod; 11. Hungary, Katalin Kóthay; 12. Czechoslovakia, Hana Navratilova and Adéla Jůnová Macková; 13. Poland, Joachim Śliwa; 14. Russia, Andrey Bolshakov; 15. Italy, Patrizia Piacentini; 16. Spain, Alba María Villar Gómez; 17. United States of America, Peter Lacovara; 18. Canada, Zoe McQuinn; 19. Japan, Jiro Kondo and Nozomu Kawai; 20. Australasia, Boyo Ockinga; 21. Ancient Egypt in the cinema, Daniel Rafaelić; 22. Past and future, Salima Ikram, Aidan Dodson and Andrew Bednarski; Bibliography; Index.

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