Resources

This page contains various books, articles and other resources relevant to the subject of Egyptomania.

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Egyptomania

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

Reception of Ancient Egypt

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

History of Egyptology

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

Ethical Studies and Anti-Colonialism

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 the American 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

Museums and Collections

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

Collecting and Antiquities Trade

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.

The History of Early Tourism in Egypt

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.

Egypt-inspired Art and Architecture

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.

Obelisks

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.

Egypt-inspired Fashion and Jewellery

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.

Tv and Film

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.

Literature

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.

Mummies and Mummymania

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.

Mummy Unwrappings

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.

The Mummy’s Curse

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.

Consuming Ancient Egypt

Baker, N. (2002) Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper. London: Vintage. Preview available here

Dannenfeldt, K. H. (1985). ‘Egyptian Mumia: The Sixteenth Century Experience and Debate’ The Sixteenth Century Journal 16 (2): 163-80.

Elliott, C. (2017) ‘Bandages, Bitumen, Bodies and Business - Egyptian Mummies as Raw Materials’ Aegyptiaca: Journal of the History of Reception of Ancient Egypt 1: 26-46. Available here

Gordon-Grube, K. (1988) ‘Anthropophagy in Post-Renaissance Europe: The Tradition of Medicinal Cannibalism’ American Anthropologist 90 (2): 405-9.

Macdonald, S. & M. Rice (eds.) (2003) Consuming Ancient Egypt. (Encounters with ancient Egypt). London: UCL Press. Preview available here

Strandberg. H. (1998) ‘Mumia Egyptiaca Used in the Art of Healing during the 17th and 18th Centuries: A Small Contribution to the History of Egyptology’ ASAE 73: 156-61.

Sugg, R. (2008) ‘Corpse Medicine: Mummies, Cannibals, and Vampires’ The Lancet 371 (9630) (Jun.): 2078-79.

Sugg, R. (2011) Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires: The History of Corpse Medicine from The Renaissance to the Victorians. New York: Taylor & Francis. Preview available here

Wolfe, S. J. (2003) ‘Long Under Wraps: Cataloguing Puzzle Solved’ The Book (61) (Nov.): 4-5. Available here

Woodcock. S. (1996) ‘Body Colour: The Misuse of Mummy’ The Conservator 20: 87-94. Available here

Tutmania

Brier, B. (forthcoming) Tutankhamun and the Tomb that Changed the World. New York: Oxford University Press USA. Preview available here

Dodson, A. (forthcoming) Tutankhamun, King of Egypt: His Life and Afterlife (Lives and Afterlives). Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press.

Parkinson, B. R. (2008) ‘Tutankhamen on Trial: Egyptian Nationalism and the Court Case for the Pharaoh's Artifacts’ Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 44: 1-8.

Parkinson, R. B. (ed.) (2022) Tutankhamun: Excavating the Archive. Oxford: Bodleian Library.

Reid, D. M. (2015) ‘Remembering and Forgetting Tutankhamun: Imperial and National Rhythms of Archaeology, 1922–1972’ in W. Carruthers (ed.) Histories of Egyptology: Interdisciplinary Measures: 157-73.

Riggs, C. (2021) Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century. London: Atlantic Books. Preview available here

Riggs, C. (2018) Photographing Tutankhamun: Archaeology, Ancient Egypt, and the Archive (Photography, History: History, Photography). London: Routledge. Preview available here

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