ISSE Bookshelf:
What we’re currently reading
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Amelia B. Edwards: The 'Queen of Egyptology' by Carl Graves
Our latest read is Carl Graves’ new book, in which he navigates Amelia’s complicated personal life, unpacking the events that surrounded the foundation of the Egypt Exploration Fund (now Society).
Click the ‘find out more’ link to take you to the EES website.
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The Future of Egyptology by Monica Hanna
This new text is at the top of our reading list at the moment. It’s crucial reading as part of decolonising the field. Dr. Monica Hanna’s book ‘presents a comprehensive vision of what Egyptology should be’.
EES are also hosting Dr. Hanna to talk about the book in August 2025. You can find out more on the EES website. You can find out more about the book via the publisher below.
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How Pharaohs Became Media Stars ed. by Abraham I. Fernandez Pichel
We find that we reach for this collection often. This book explores the conscious reinterpretation of the past in the work of contemporary authors, who shape an image of the Egyptian reality that in each case is determined by their own circumstances and contexts. It’s also available to read for free via the link below.
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Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age by Kathleen Sheppard
Kathleen Sheppard’s latest book moves away from the male-centred narrative we often find in books about the history of Egyptology and brings the untold stories of these women back into this narrative.
You can buy this copy worldwide, but we have included the link to the publisher below.
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Conflicted Antiquities by Elliott Colla
This is another book that we frequently read. Elliott Colla explores the values and practices introduced by the new science of archaeology and the key role this played in the formation of a new colonial regime in Egypt.
It’s available to read on an open access basis via the link below.
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Egypt in England by Chris Elliott
Chris Elliott is an ISSE ambassador who created this is a fully illustrated book. It combines a series of topic essays giving the architectural and Egyptological background to the use of the style with a guide allowing sites to be located, and explaining what can still be seen.
You can get a new copy from Liverpool University Press below
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Victorian Alchemy Science, magic and ancient Egypt by Eleanor Dobson
Dr Eleanor Dobson’s 2022 text is another constant on our reading list as we analyse Victorian reception of ancient Egypt. This book explores how magic and science were perceived, using literature and other cultural forms.
The text is available on an open access basis via the link below.
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Nephthys by Rachel Louise Driscoll
The reception of ancient Egypt has been found in the world of fiction for many years and as part of our research, we read and analyse these types of texts. On our reading list at the moment is this new book by Rachel Louise Driscoll. Nephthys is a tale that follows Clemmie, a Victorian Egyptologist and it re-imagines ancient Egyptian goddesses Isis and Nephthys. In America, this book has a different title: ‘The House of Two Sisters.’.
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Mummified by Dr Angela Stienne
This book is one that we frequently reach for on the shelf! Mummified tells the story behind ancient Egyptian Mummies in museums. The book is well researched and very readable, discussing the important topic of ethics and the journey through a museum space. The book also features an introduction given by our ISSE Ambassador John J. Johnston.
Dr Angela Stienne is also publishing another book soon, so be sure to keep your eye on her website.
Books and Articles
Please use the drop-down menus to explore hundreds of key resources including books and articles.
This section is currently under review and we will be adding some additional resources over the coming months.
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Brier, B. (2013) Egyptomania: Our Three Thousand Year Obsession with the Land of the Pharaohs. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Preview available here
Dobson, E. (2020) Writing the Sphinx: Literature, Culture and Egyptology (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture). Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press.
Dobson, E. & N. Tonks (2020) Ancient Egypt in the Modern Imagination: Art, Literature and Culture. London: Bloomsbury Academic.Preview available here
Dobson, E. & N. Tonks (2018) ‘Introduction: Ancient Egypt in Nineteenth-Century Culture’ Nineteenth-Century Contexts 40 (4): 311-15.
Doyle, N. (ed.) (2016) ‘Egyptomania and Beyond’ Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 8 (1) (Mar.) More info here
Fagan, B. M. (2009) The Rape of the Nile: Tomb Robbers, Tourists, and Archaeologists in Egypt. United States: Westview Press.Preview available here
Ferrari, A. & B. Hinson (eds.) (2022) Visions of Ancient Egypt. Norwich: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts.
France, P. (1991) The Rape of Egypt: How the Europeans Stripped Egypt of Its Heritage. London: Barrie & Jenkins.
Fritze, R. H. (2016) Egyptomania: A History of Fascination, Obsession and Fantasy. London: Reaktion Books. Preview available here
Hinson, B. & A. Ferrari (eds.) (forthcoming) Visions of Ancient Egypt. Norfolk: The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts.
Holt, F. L. (1985) ‘Egyptomania: Have We Cursed the Pharaohs?’ Archaeology 39 (2) (Mar./Apr.): 60-63.
Hornung, E (2002) The Secret Lore of Egypt: Its Impact on the West. New York: Cornell University Press. Preview available here
Jordan, P. (1998) Riddles of the Sphinx. Stroud, Glous: Sutton Publishing.
Leask, N. (2002) ‘Young Memnon and Romantic Egyptomania’ in N. Leask (ed.) Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing, 1770-1840: from an Antique Land: 102-56.
Macdonald, S. & M. Rice (2003) ‘Introduction – Tea with a Mummy: The Consumer’s View of Egypt’s Immemorial Appeal’ in S. Macdonald & M. Rice (eds.) Consuming Ancient Egypt: 1-22.
Nielsen, N. (2020) Egyptomaniacs: How We Became Obsessed with Ancient Egypt. Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword History. Preview available here
Trafton, S. & D. P. E. Trafton (2004) Egypt Land: Race and Nineteenth-Century American Egyptomania. United States: Duke University Press. Preview available here
Ucko, P. J. & T. Champion (2016) The Wisdom of Egypt: Changing Visions Through the Ages. London: Taylor & Francis. Preview available here
Versluys, M. J. (ed.) (2020) Beyond Egyptomania: Objects, Style and Agency (Studien aus dem Warburg-Haus, 21). Berlin: De Gruyter.ns
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Boyer, V. & A. Quertinmont (eds.) (2022) Égypte et Ex-Libris; Entre Fantasme, Archéologie et Imaginaire. Brussels: Éditions Safran.
Candeias Sales, J. & S. Mota (2019) ‘Tutankhamun in Portugal. Reports in the Portuguese Press (1922-1939)’ in G. José da Silva & G. da Silva Francisco (eds.) Heródoto: Revista do Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre a Antiguidade Clássica e suas Conexões Afro-Asiáticas 4 (2): 27-58. Available here
Dannenfeldt. K. H. (1959) ‘Egypt and Egyptian Antiquities in the Renaissance’ Studies in the Renaissance 6: 7-27.
el-Daly, O. (2005) Egyptology: The Missing Millenium – Ancient Egypt in Medieval Arabic Writings. United States: Left Coast Press; London: UCL Press.
Elliott, C. (2012) Egypt in England. Swindon: English Heritage.
Griener, P. (2020) ‘The Fascination for Egypt During the Eighteenth Century. History of a »Configuration«’ in M. J. Versluys (ed.) Beyond Egyptomania: Objects, Styles and Agency: 53-70.
Laboury, D. & M. Lekane (2020) ’Lost in Translation? On »Aegyptiaca« in the Middle Ages’ in M. J. Versluys (ed.) Beyond Egyptomania: Objects, Styles and Agency: 115-32.
Moser, S. (2015) ’Reconstructing Ancient Worlds: Reception Studies, Archaeological Representation and the Interpretation of Ancient Egypt’ Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 22 (4): 1263-1308.
Moser, S. (2020) ‘The Magic of the Material. Receptions of Ancient Egypt and their Impacts’ in M. J. Versluys (ed.) Beyond Egyptomania: Objects, Styles and Agency: 225-36.
Navrátilová, H. (2003) Egyptian Revival in Bohemia: 1850-1920: Orientalism and Egyptomania in Czech Lands. Czech Republic: Set Out.
Rocha da Silva, T. (2017) ‘Tropical Egypt: The Development of Egyptology in Brazil and its Future Challenges’ in C. Langer (ed.) Global Egyptology: Negotiations in the Production of Knowledges on Ancient Egypt in Global Contexts (GHP Egyptology 26): 161-72. Available here
Salem, L. (2022) ‘Tutankhamun and Eastern Civilization: Víctor Mercante and the Beginnings of Egyptology in Argentina’ Journal of Egyptian History 15 (1): 107-37.
Steele, J. & M. Geoga (eds.) (2022) The Allure of the Ancient Receptions of the Ancient Middle East, Ca. 1600–1800. Leiden: Brill. Preview available here
Youngkin, M. (2016) British Women Writers and the Reception of Ancient Egypt, 1840-1910: Imperialist Representations of Egyptian Women. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US. Preview available here
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Bednarski, A., Dodson, A. & S. Ikram (eds.) (2020) A History of World Egyptology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Preview available here
Bercken, B. van den (ed.) (forthcoming) Alternative Egyptology. Leiden: Sidestone Press.
Bierbrier, M. L. (2021) Who Was Who in Egyptology. [5th Revised Edition]. London: The Egypt Exploration Society.
Carruthers, W. (ed.) (2015) Histories of Egyptology: Interdisciplinary Measures. New York & London: Routledge. Preview available here
Elshakry, M. (2015) ‘Histories of Egyptology in Egypt: Some Thoughts’ in W. Carruthers (ed.) Histories of Egyptology: Interdisciplinary Measures: 185-200.
Gange, D. (2013) Dialogues with the Dead: Egyptology in British Culture and Religion, 1822–1922. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Preview available here
Langer, C. (2017) ‘Perspectives of Egyptologies and on Egyptologies in a Globalised World’ in C. Langer (ed.) Global Egyptology: Negotiations in the Production of Knowledges on Ancient Egypt in Global Contexts (GHP Egyptology 26): Available here
Loktionov, A. A. (2017) ‘Of Pilgrims and Poets, Prisoners and Politics: The Story of Egyptology in Russia’ in C. Langer (ed.) Global Egyptology: Negotiations in the Production of Knowledges on Ancient Egypt in Global Contexts (GHP Egyptology 26): 129-46. Available here
Melman, B. (2020) Empires of Antiquities: Modernity and the Rediscovery of the Ancient Near East, 1914-1950. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Preview available here
Moreno García, J. C. (2015) ‘The Cursed Discipline? The Peculiarities of Egyptology at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century’ in W. Carruthers (ed.) Histories of Egyptology: Interdisciplinary Measures: 50-63. Available here
Moser, S. (2015) ‘Legacies of Engagement: The Multiple Manifestations of Ancient Egypt in Public Discourse’ in W. Carruthers (ed.) Histories of Egyptology: Interdisciplinary Measures: 242-52.
Naunton, C. (2020) Egyptologists’ Notebooks: The Golden Age of Nile Exploration in Words, Pictures, Plans, and Letters. Los Angeles: Getty Publications.
Nishimura, Y. & S. Miyagawa (2017) ‘An Early History of Egyptology in Japan with a Focus on Philological Studies’ in C. Langer (ed.) Global Egyptology: Negotiations in the Production of Knowledges on Ancient Egypt in Global Contexts (GHP Egyptology 26): 147-60. Available here
Sheppard, K. L. (2022) Tea on the Terrace: Hotels and Egyptologists Social Networks, 1885-1925. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Thompson, J. (2020) Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology 3: From 1914 to the Twenty-First Century. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press.
Thompson, J. (2018) Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology 2: The Golden Age: 1881-1914. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press.
Thompson, J. (2015) Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology 1: From Antiquity to 1881. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press. Preview available here
Thornton, A. (2018) Archaeologists in Print: Publishing for the People. London: UCL Press. Available here
Tian, T. (2017) ‘Budding Lotus: Egyptology in China from the 1840s to Today’ in C. Langer (ed.) Global Egyptology: Negotiations in the Production of Knowledges on Ancient Egypt in Global Contexts (GHP Egyptology 26): 173-98. Available here
Wilkinson, T. (2020) A World Beneath the Sands: Adventurers and Archaeologists in the Golden Age of Egyptology. London: Pan Macmillan. Preview available here
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Abd el-Gawad H. & A. Stevenson (2021) ‘Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage: Views from Egypt 2019-2020’ in G. Boyle & J. Butterworth (eds.) Communicating Archaeology: Case Studies in the Use of, and Engagement with, Archaeological Collections: 73-9. Available here
Abd el-Gawad H. & A. Stevenson (2021) ‘Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage: Multi-Directional Storytelling through Comic Art’ Journal of Social Archaeology 21 (1) (Feb.): 121-45). Available here
Ashmawi, A. (2012) Legal Thefts: Stories of Thefts of Egyptian Antiquities, Their Smuggling and Attempts to Recover Them. Cairo: Egyptian Lebanese Publishing House [in Arabic].
Blouin, K., Hanna, M. & S. E. Bond (2020) ‘How Academics, Egyptologists, and Even Melania Trump Benefit from Colonialist Cosplay’ Hyperallergic (22 Oct.). Available here
Colla, E. (2008) Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Preview available here
Cuno, J. (2011) Who Owns Antiquity?: Museums and the Battle Over Our Ancient Heritage. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press. Preview available here
Day, J. (2014) ‘“Thinking Makes It So”: Reflections on the Ethics of Displaying Egyptian Mummies’ Papers on Anthropology 23 (1): 29–44. Available here
Haikal, F. (2003) ‘Egypt's Past Regenerated by its Own People’ in S. Macdonald & M. Rice (eds.) Consuming Ancient Egypt: 123-38.
Hanna, M. (2015) ‘Documenting Looting Activities in Post-2011 Egypt’ in F. Desmarais (ed.) Countering Illicit Traffic in Cultural Goods: The Global Challenge of Protecting the World’s Heritage: 47-63. Available here
Hanna, M. (2013) ‘What Has Happened to Egyptian Heritage after the 2011 Unfinished Revolution?’ Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies 1 (4): 371-75. Available here
Kaufmann, I. M. & F. J. Rühli (2010) ‘Without 'Informed Consent'? Ethics and Ancient Mummy Research’ Journal of Medical Ethics 36 (10): 608-13. Available here
Matić, U. (2021) ‘Talk like an Egyptian? Epistemological problems with the synthesis of a vocal sound from the mummified remains of Nesyamun and racial designations in mummy studies’ Archaeological Dialogues 28 (1): 37-49. Available here
Omar, H. (2015) ‘The State of the Archive: Manipulating Memory in Modern Egypt and the Writing of Egyptological Histories’ in W. Carruthers (ed.) Histories of Egyptology: Interdisciplinary Measures: 174-83. Available here
Proctor, A. (2021) The Whole Picture: The Colonial Story of the Art in Our Museums & why We Need to Talk about it. London: Octopus Publishing Group.
Quirke, S. (2010) Hidden Hands: Egyptian Workforces in Petrie Excavation Archives, 1880–1924. London: Duckworth.
Reid, D. M. (2015) Contesting Antiquity in Egypt: Archaeologies, Museums, and the Struggle for Identities from World War I to Nasser. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press.
Reid, D. M. (2003) Whose Pharaohs? Archaeology, Museums, and Egyptian National Identity from Napoleon to World War I. United States: University of California Press. Preview available here
Reid, D. M. (1997) ‘Nationalizing the Pharaonic Past: Egyptology, Imperialism, and Egyptian Nationalism, 1922-1962’ in J. P. Jankowski & I. Gershoni (eds.) Rethinking Nationalism in the Arab Middle East: 127-49.
Reid, D. M. (1985) ‘Indigenous Egyptology: The Decolonization of a Profession?’ Journal of theAmerican Oriental Society 105 (2): 233-46.
Riggs, C. (2013) ‘Colonial Visions: Egyptian Antiquities and Contested Histories in the Cairo Museum’ Museum Worlds: Advances in Research 1: 65-84. Available here
Riggs, C. (2015) ‘Discussing Knowledge in the Making’ in W. Carruthers (ed.) Histories of Egyptology: Interdisciplinary Measures: 129-38. Available here
Riggs, C. (2014) Unwrapping Ancient Egypt. United Kingdom: Berg Publishers.
Spek, K. van der (2011) The Modern Neighbors of Tutankhamun: History, Life, and Work in the Villages of the Theban West Bank. New York: Oxford University Press.
Stienne, A. (2022) ‘[Podcast] Is it Time to Rethink How We Display Egyptian Mummies?’ History Extra. Available here
Tully, G. & M. Hanna (2013) ‘One Landscape, Many Tenants: Uncovering Multiple Claims, Visions and Meanings on the Theban Necropolis’ Journal of the World Archaeological Congress: Archaeologies 9 (2): 362–97. Available here
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Elshahed, M (2017) ‘The Museums of Egypt Speak for Whom?’ CIPEG 1: 1-11.
Elshahed, M. (2015) ‘The Old and New Egyptian Museums: Between Imperialists, Nationalists, and Tourists’ in W. Carruthers (ed.) Histories of Egyptology: Interdisciplinary Measures: 255-70.
Hicks, D. (2021) The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution. London: Pluto Press.
Hurley, C. (2020) ‘Pharaohs, Papyri and Hookahs. Displaying and Staging Egyptian Antiquities in Nineteenth Century European Exhibitions’ in M. J. Versluys (ed.) Beyond Egyptomania: Objects, Styles and Agency: 185-210.
Jenkins, T. (2016) Keeping Their Marbles. How the Treasures of the Past Ended up in Museums – and Why they Should Stay There. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Moser, S. (2006) Wondrous Curiosities: Ancient Egypt at the British Museum. Chicago, USA. Chicago University Press.
Stevenson, A. (2022) Egyptian Archaeology and the Twenty-First Century Museum. Cambridge, UK; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Stevenson, A. (2019) Scattered Finds: Archaeology, Egyptology and Museums. London: UCL Press. Available here
Stevenson, A. (2019) ‘Circulation as Negotiation and Loss: Egyptian Antiquities from British Excavations, 1880–Present’ in F. Driver, M. Nesbitt & C. Cornish (eds.) Mobile Museums: Collections in Circulation: 261-82. Available here
Stevenson, A. (ed.) (2015) The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology: Characters and Collections. London: UCL Press. Preview available here
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Golia, M. (2022) A Short History of Tomb-Raiding: The Epic Hunt for Egypt’s Treasures. London: Reaktion Books. Preview available here
Hagen, F. & K. Ryholt (2016) The Antiquities Trade in Egypt 1880–1930. The H.O. Lange Papers. Copenhagen: Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.
Robertson, G. (2019) Who Owns History? Elgin's Loot and the Case for Returning Plundered Treasure. London: Biteback Publishing. Preview available here
Waxman, S. (2010) Loot: The Battle Over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World. New York: Henry Holt & Co.
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Blottiere, A. (2009) Vintage Egypt: Cruising the Nile in the Golden Age of Travel. New York: Random House Incorporated.
Bruce, R. (2021) ‘The Curse of the Victorians in Egypt: Tourists on the Nile’ EPOCH Magazine 6 (1 Dec.) Available here
Humphreys, A. (2015) On The Nile in the Golden Age of Travel. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press.
Humphreys, A. (2012) Grand Hotels of Egypt in the Golden Age of Touring: Classic Suites, Picnics on The Pyramids, and Verandas on the Nile. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press.
Mairs, R. & M. Muratov (2015) Archaeologists, Tourists, Interpreters: Exploring Egypt and the Near East in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries (Bloomsbury Egyptology). London: Bloomsbury Academic. Preview available here
Sattin, A. (2011) Lifting The Veil: Two Centuries of Travellers, Traders and Tourists in Egypt. London: Tauris Parke Paperbacks.
Tyldesley, J. (2005) Egypt: How a Lost Civilization was Rediscovered. London: BBC Books.
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Curl, J. S. (1994) Egyptomania. The Egyptian Revival as a Recurring Theme in the History of Taste. Manchester: Manchester University Press. Preview available here
Huckvale, D. (2012) Ancient Egypt in the Popular Imagination: Building a Fantasy in Film, Literature, Music and Art. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. Preview available here
Humbert, J.-M. & C.A. Price (eds.) (2003) Imhotep Today: Egyptianizing Architecture. (Encounters with ancient Egypt). London: UCL Press. Preview available here
Humbert, J.-M. (1994) Egyptomania: Egypt in Western Art, 1730-1930. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada; Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux.
Humbert, J.-M. (2021) ‘Egyptian Revival in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Home Daily Life’ Aegyptiaca: Journal of the History of Reception of Ancient Egypt 6: 114-38. Available here
Humbert, J.-M. (forthcoming) Art Deco & Egyptomanie. Editions Norma.
Humbert, J.-M., Ziegler, C. & M. Pantazzi (1994) Egyptomania: L'Egypte dans l'Art Occidental, 1730-1930. Canada: National Gallery of Canada.
Moser, S. (2012) Designing Antiquity: Owen Jones, Ancient Egypt and the Crystal Palace. London, GB: Yale University Press.
Moser, S. (2020) Painting Antiquity: Ancient Egypt in the Art of Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Edward Poynter and Edwin Long. New York: Oxford University Press, USA. Preview available here
Verhoogt, R. (2018) ‘Alma-Tadema’s Egyptian Dream: Ancient Egypt in the Work of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema’ Nineteenth-Century Contexts 40 (4): 377-95.
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Brier, B. (2018) ‘The Secret Life of the Paris Obelisk’ Aegyptiaca: Journal of the History of Reception of Ancient Egypt 2: 75-91. Available here
Brier, B. (2016) Cleopatra’s Needles: The Lost Obelisks of Egypt (Bloomsbury Egyptology). London: Bloomsbury Academic. Preview available here
Elliott, C. (2020) ‘The Needle and the New Zealander Cleopatra’s Needle as Memento Mori for Empire’ Aegyptiaca: Journal of the History of Reception of Ancient Egypt 5: 434-45. Available here
Lacovara, P. (2018) ‘Pyramids and Obelisks Beyond Egypt’ Aegyptiaca: Journal of the History of Reception of Ancient Egypt 2: 124-37. Available here
Lebas, A. (2021) The Luxor Obelisk and Its Voyage to Paris. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press.
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Campagnol, I. (2022) Style from the Nile: Egyptomania in Fashion from the 19th Century to the Present Day. Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword History. Preview available here
Eladwi, M., Eladway, M. & A. Husseiny (eds.) (2020) Egyptomania: Fashion Printed Design Inspirations - Snippets of Mania about Egypt. Independently published.
Markowitz, Y. J. (2018) ‘The Allure of Ancient Egyptian Jewelry’ Aegyptiaca: Journal of the History of Reception of Ancient Egypt 2: 138-49. Available here
Nicholls, D. R, Foote, S. & R. Allison (eds.) (2006) Egyptian Revival Jewelry & Design. Pennsylvania: Schiffer Pub.
Tyldesley, J. (2017) ‘Wonderful Things: Thematic Transmission in Egyptian Revival Jewellery’ in M. Tomorad & J. Popielska-Grzybowska (eds.) Proceedings of the Seventh European Conference of Egyptologists, Zagreb (no. 18): 34-46.
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Coniam, M. (2017) Egyptomania Goes to the Movies: From Archaeology to Popular Craze to Hollywood Fantasy. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. Preview available here
Day, J. (2015) ‘Repeating Death: The High Priest Character in Mummy Horror Films’ in W. Carruthers (ed.) Histories of Egyptology: Interdisciplinary Measures: 215-26. Available here
Glynn, B. (2020) The Mummy on Screen: Orientalism and Monstrosity in Horror Cinema (International Library of the Moving Image). London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Schadla-Hall, T. & G. Morris (2003) ‘Ancient Egypt on the Small Screen: From Fact to Faction in the UK’ in S. Macdonald & M. Rice (eds.) Consuming Ancient Egypt: 195-216.
Schnitzler, B. (2003) ‘Hijacked Images: Ancient Egypt in French Commercial Advertising’ in S. Macdonald & M. Rice (eds.) Consuming Ancient Egypt: 165-74.
Serafy, S. (2003) ‘Egypt in Hollywood: Pharaohs of the Fifties’ in S. Macdonald & M. Rice (eds.) Consuming Ancient Egypt: 77-86.
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Daly, N. (1994) ‘That Obscure Object of Desire: Victorian Commodity Culture and Fictions of the Mummy’ NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 28 (1): 24-51.
Deane, B. (2008) ‘Mummy Fiction and the Occupation of Egypt: Imperial Striptease’ English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 51 (4): 381-410.
Dobson, E. (forthcoming) ‘Nineteenth-Century Mummy Fiction’ in B. Hinson & A. Ferrari (eds.) Visions of Ancient Egypt. Norfolk: The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts.
Dobson, E. (ed.) (2020) Victorian Literary Culture and Ancient Egypt. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. Preview available here
Johnston, J. J. (2013) Unearthed: Classic Tales of the Mummy. London: Jurassic.
Paramore, L. (2008) Reading the Sphinx: Ancient Egypt in Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Preview available here
Wheatcroft, A. (2003) '”Wonderful Things”: Publishing Egypt in Word and Image’ in S. Macdonald & M. Rice (eds.) Consuming Ancient Egypt: 151-64.
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Baber, T. T. (2016) ‘Ancient Corpses as Curiosities: Mummymania in the Age of Early Travel’ JAEI 8: 60-93. Available here
Cardin, M. (2014) Mummies around the World: An Encyclopedia of Mummies in History, Religion and Popular Culture. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. Preview available here
Cowie, S. D., Johnson, T. & G. Hart (2007) The Mummy in Fact, Fiction, and Film. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. Preview available here
Day, J. (2005) ‘Mummymania: Mummies, Museums and Popular Culture’ Journal of Biological Research 1 (80): 296-300. Available here
Day, J. (2006) The Mummy’s Curse: Mummymania in the English-Speaking World. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis. Preview available here
Hamam, I. (2006) ‘”A Race for Incorporation”: Ancient Egypt and its Mummies in Science and Popular Culture’ in R. Pearson (ed.) The Victorians and the Ancient World: Archaeology and Classicism in Nineteenth-century Culture: 25-40.
Lupton. C. (2003) ‘Mummymania for the Masses – Is Egyptology Cursed by the Mummy Curse?’ in S. Macdonald & M. Rice (eds.) Consuming Ancient Egypt: 23-46.
Pringle, H. A. (2001) The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead. London: Fourth Estate.
Stienne, A. (2022) Mummified: The Stories Behind Egyptian Mummies in Museums. Manchester: Manchester University Press. Preview available here
Wolfe, S. J. (2009) Mummies in Nineteenth Century America: Ancient Egyptians as Artifacts. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co.
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Dawson, W. R. (1934) ‘Pettigrew’s Demonstrations Upon Mummies: A Chapter in the History of Egyptology’ JEA 20: (3/4): 170-182.
Johnston, J. J. (2013) ‘Lost in Time and Space: Unrolling Egypt's Ancient Dead’ Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall: 7–22. Available here
Moshenska, G. (2014) ‘Unrolling Egyptian Mummies in Nineteenth-Century Britain’ British Journal for the History of Science 47 (3): 451-77.
Moshenska, G. (2015) ‘Thomas "Mummy" Pettigrew and the Study of Egypt in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain’ in W. Carruthers (ed.) Histories of Egyptology: Interdisciplinary Measures: 201-14.
Rogers, B. (2016) ‘Unwrapping the Past: Egyptian Mummies on Show’ in J. A. Sullivan (ed.) Popular Exhibitions, Science and Showmanship, 1840-1910 (Science & Culture in the Nineteenth Century): 199-218.
Sheppard, K. L. (2012) ‘Between Spectacle and Science: Margaret Murray and the Tomb of the Two Brothers’ Science in Context 25 (4): 525-49.
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Bridges, M. D. (2008) ‘Tales from the Crypt: Bram Stoker and the Curse of the Egyptian Mummy’ Victorian Institute Journal 36: 137-65.
Bruce, L. R. & R. Luckhurst (2022) ‘Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb’ All About History Magazine 122: 36-41.
Day, J. (2008) ‘The Rape of the Mummy: Women, Horror Fiction and the Westernisation of the Curse’ in P. Peña, C. Martin & A. Rodriguez (eds.) Mummies and Science – World Mummies Research: Proceedings of the VI World Congress on Mummy Studies. Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Academia Canaria de la Historia: 617-21. Available here
Luckhurst, R. (2012) The Mummy’s Curse: The True History of a Dark Fantasy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Preview available here
Monserrat, D. (1998) ‘Louisa May Alcott and the Mummy’s Curse’ KMT: A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt 9 (2): 70-5.
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Baker, N. (2002) Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper. London: Vintage. Preview available here
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Workshop & Study Day Resources
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Short in length. Usually 150-300 words. Pay close attention to the requirements - each conference has a unique set of rules. For ISSE, we ask for 250 words.
This small word limit means that you need to get to the point quickly and hook the reader.
Your abstract should tell the reader clearly what your presentation will be about and what your research entails.
It’s short but give yourself plenty of time. You might want to make some tweaks before submitting.
You don’t need to have the presentation (‘paper’) fully written when you submit your abstract.
Why not look for programmes from the previous year? Read all of the abstracts and see what you can learn. What is it about your favourite ones that make you want to go and listen to the full presentation?
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Call for papers: The window when submissions are open. Normally, academic conferences will ask people to submit an abstract and a biography by a certain date.
Abstract (Conference): This is a brief summary of what you would present at the conference if you are accepted. It’s almost like a short pitch and will be used in the conference programme, too.
Paper (Conference): This is where things get confusing! For a conference, this simply means your presentation! It could be slides, or it could be presented orally. You don’t have to have this ready UNTIL THE CONFERENCE – but pay attention to deadlines. You might have to send it over a few days or a week early so theorganisation teams can prep your slides.
Abstract (Paper/Journal): This is the summary of your written paper that you might submit to a journal/conference proceedings. You usually write this one AFTER you have finished your paper.
Paper (Journal): A written article/essay on your chosen topic. Each journal will have its own word length and requirements. You should read these carefully before you submit.
Conference Proceedings: A published record of what happened at a conference. They usually include things like abstracts and written papers on the topics presented on. Sometimes they include the record of any discussions that take place.