Tutankhamun and Carter: Assessing the Impact of a Major Archaeological Find - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798888570678

Editeur : Casemate Publishers, 2024

Synopsis

First scholarly, multi-disciplinary re-assessment of Howard Carter's discovery and excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb and the impact of the find on our understanding of the material culture of Ancient Egypt.

One hundred years after its discovery, this book revisits Tutankhamun's tomb with a view to reassess the circumstances in which it was excavated by Carter and to estimate how it has impacted both scientific and popular representations of Egypt at large. In short, this book examines the find of Tutankhamun as a multidimension cultural phenomenon involving aspects concerning the historical circumstances of the find, how it was studied over the years, how it impacted our knowledge on Tutankhamun's reign and our own perception of Egyptian civilization. The studies are presented along four sections, addressing different, yet complementary aspects of Tutankhamun's 'phenomenon'.

The first section addresses the historical circumstances of the find with updated research resulting from the critical examination of different types of archival sources. These studies contradict long standing biased views on this process and systematize the archaeological and conservation paradigms involved in the discovery. Section 2 revolves around categories of objects that have been almost completely overlooked by Egyptological studies, providing a fresh input and new insights not only on the material culture of Ancient Egypt, but also on the circumstances of the find itself. Section 3 examines the impact of Tutankhamun's tomb on media, literature, and design and how it shaped contemporary representations of Egypt, as well as the phenomenon of 'Tut-mania' in popular culture.

The fourth section addresses the reign of Tutankhamun itself. Different types of documentary sources univocally suggest the importance of this reign in shaping the cultural landscape of Egypt throughout the Ramesside period which clearly challenges the longstanding view of this reign as a minor and insignificant episode of Egyptian history. These studies show the many lacunae that still prevent us from understanding the historical processes involved before and after Tutankhamun's reign.

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À propos des auteurs

Rogério Sousa is Lecturer in Egyptology and Ancient History at the University of Lisbon. He coordinates the Gate of the Priests Project set up at the Centre for History of the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Lisbon. He is author of several monographs on material culture, coffin decoration and iconography from the New Kingdom and the 21st Dynasty.

Gabriele Pieke is Head of the Antiquity Department of the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen in Mannheim. She has curated numerous exhibitions and has been involved in international research projects for many years. She is an expert in the field of ancient Egyptian art history and is part of archaeological missions at Thebes and Saqqara. Her research focuses in particular on non-royal tombs from the Old to New Kingdoms (3rd-2nd millennium BC).

Tine Bagh is curator for the Egyptian, Sudanese and Near Eastern collections at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen where she has curated exhibitions and published books on her main interests, the Middle Kingdom, Amarna and more. She is chair of CIPEG, the ICOM International Committee of Egyptian and Sudanese collections.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Casemate Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798888570678
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Éditeur: Sousa Rogerio, Pieke Gabriele, Bagh Tine
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