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Women in the Valley of the Kings

The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age

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Women in the Valley of the Kings

Written by: Kathleen Sheppard
Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
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The history of Egyptology is often told as yet one more grand narrative of powerful men striving to seize the day and the precious artifacts for their competing homelands. But that is only half of the story. During the Golden Age of Exploration, there were women working and exploring before Howard Carter discovered the tomb of King Tut. Before men even conceived of claiming the story for themselves, women were working in Egypt to lay the groundwork for all future exploration.

In Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age, Kathleen Sheppard brings the untold stories of these women back into this narrative. Sheppard begins with the earliest European women who ventured to Egypt as travelers: Amelia Edwards, Jenny Lane, and Marianne Brocklehurst. Their travelogues, diaries, and maps chronicled a new world for the curious. In the vast desert, Maggie Benson, the first woman granted permission to excavate in Egypt, met Nettie Gourlay, the woman who became her lifelong companion. They battled issues of oppression and exclusion and, ultimately, are credited with excavating the Temple of Mut.

Women in the Valley of the Kings upends the grand male narrative of Egyptian exploration and shows how a group of courageous women charted unknown territory and changed the field of Egyptology forever.

©2024 Kathleen Sheppard (P)2024 Tantor
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Well-written & Interesting

The story of Egyptology has always seemed a story of a few great men, who they were, their discoveries, what they contributed. Women were rarely mentioned and then usually in supporting roles only, as wives or helpers, rarely if ever, with important contributions of their own. In her well-researched, well-documented book, Women in the Valley of the Kings, Kathleen Sheppard sets out to correct that oversight and does an excellent job of presenting the women who, in many ways through their contributions which included teaching, writing, monetary contributions, lecture tours, and, yes, taking part in digs, advanced the explorations, discoveries, knowledge and history of Egyptology. An interesting book that shows the other side of the story that has been missing too long and raises women to their proper and important place, not just as helpmates, but as important Egyptologists in their own right. The audiobook is narrated by Elizabeth Wiley who does an excellent job.

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