Author: Josiah Priest
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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Author: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Publisher: Angeles County Museum of Art
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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A survey of the achievements of American Egyptology featuring such enterprising US archaeologists as George Reisner, James Henry Breasted and Herbert Winlock, whose expeditions enriched the Egyptian collections of prominent museums and universities in Chicago, Philadelpia, Boston, Berkeley and New York.

Author: Josiah Priest
Publisher: Hayriver Press
ISBN: 9780970398529
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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Being an exhibition of the evidence that an ancient population of many partially civilized nations differing entirely from those of the present day indians peopled America many centuries before its discovery by Columbus, and inquiries into their origin, with a copious description of many of their stupendous works, now in ruins, with conjectures concerning what may have become of them. Compiled from travels, Authentic sources, and the researches of antiquarian societies. - from the 1832 second edition by Josiah Priest.

Author: Josiah Priest
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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Author: Josiah Priest
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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Author: Josiah Priest
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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Author: Josiah Priest
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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Author: Alice Stevenson
Publisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1787351424
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Between the 1880s and 1980s, British excavations at locations across Egypt resulted in the discovery of hundreds of thousands of ancient objects that were subsequently sent to some 350 institutions worldwide. These finds included unique discoveries at iconic sites such as the tombs of ancient Egypt's first rulers at Abydos, Akhenaten and Nefertiti’s city of Tell el-Amarna and rich Roman Era burials in the Fayum. Scattered Finds explores the politics, personalities and social histories that linked fieldwork in Egypt with the varied organizations around the world that received finds. Case studies range from Victorian municipal museums and women’s suffrage campaigns in the UK, to the development of some of the USA’s largest institutions, and from university museums in Japan to new institutions in post-independence Ghana. By juxtaposing a diversity of sites for the reception of Egyptian cultural heritage over the period of a century, Alice Stevenson presents new ideas about the development of archaeology, museums and the construction of Egyptian heritage. She also addresses the legacy of these practices, raises questions about the nature of the authority over such heritage today, and argues for a stronger ethical commitment to its stewardship. Praise for Scattered Finds 'Scattered Finds is a remarkable achievement. In charting how British excavations in Egypt dispersed artefacts around the globe, at an unprecedented scale, Alice Stevenson shows us how ancient objects created knowledge about the past while firmly anchored in the present. No one who reads this timely book will be able to look at an Egyptian antiquity in the same way again.' Professor Christina Riggs, UEA

Author: Josiah Priest
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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Author: James P. Allen
Publisher: Angeles County Museum of Art
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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A volume of essays designed to accompany the catalogue of the same title. It aims to place the achievements of American Egyptologists into a broader context, with essays on 10 successive periods of Egyptian and Nubian cultural history, from the Pre-Dynastic era to Roman times.