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Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity

Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity

Colla, Elliott

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ArchaeologyAncient EgyptGeneral European History

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ISBN10: 0822339757
ISBN13: 9780822339755
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jan 11 2008
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.20 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
Conflicted Antiquities is a rich cultural history of European and Egyptian interest in ancient Egypt and its material culture, from the early nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth. Consulting the relevant Arabic archives, Elliott Colla demonstrates that the emergence of Egyptology--the study of ancient Egypt and its material legacy--was as consequential for modern Egyptians as it was for Europeans. The values and practices introduced by the new science of archaeology played a key role in the formation of a new colonial regime in Egypt. This fact was not lost on Egyptian nationalists, who challenged colonial archaeologists with the claim that they were the direct heirs of the Pharaohs, and therefore the rightful owners and administrators of ancient Egypt's historical sites and artifacts. As this dispute developed, nationalists invented the political and expressive culture of Pharaonism--Egypt's response to Europe's Egyptomania. In the process, a significant body of modern, Pharaonist poetry, sculpture, architecture, and film was created by artists and authors who looked to the ancient past for inspiration.

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