Emma B. Andrews and the Golden Age of Egyptian Archaeology

When:
Wednesday, Nov 16, 2016 6:00p -
7:30p

Where:
Northwest Building, Lecture Hall B103
52 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

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Admission:
FREE

Categories:
Date Idea, Lectures & Conferences, University

Event website:
http://semiticmuseum.fas.harvard.edu/event/emma-b-andrews-and-golden-age-egyptian-archaeology

Emma B. Andrews is best remembered for her association with Theodore M. Davis, the American millionaire lawyer-turned-archaeologist and antiquities collector, who donated many spectacular Egyptian objects to the Harvard Semitic Museum. Traveling to Egypt with him between 1889 and 1912, Andrews kept detailed journals of their voyages along the Nile, including Davis’ under-reported excavations of significant tombs in the Valley of the Kings. These diaries provide vital commentary on both the archaeology and the pioneering Egyptologists of that era. Sarah Ketchley will discuss a major project to digitize Andrews’ diaries and explain why they are an invaluable resource in understanding the lives of the colonial gentry and the cultural and scientific literati in Egypt at the dawn of the twentieth century.

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