Contesting Antiquity in Egypt: Archaeologies, Museums, and the Struggle for Identities from World War 1 to Nasser

515 Pages·2015·39.568 MB·English

by  Donald Malcolm Reid

Contesting Antiquity
in Egypt

Contesting Antiquity
in Egypt
Archaeologies, Museums
& the Struggle for Identities
from World War I
to Nasser
Donald Malcolm Reid
The American University in Cairo Press
Cairo New York
First published in 2015 by
The American University in Cairo Press
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Copyright © 2015 by Donald Malcolm Reid
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Reid, Donald Malcolm
Contesting Antiquity in Egypt: Archaeologies, Museums, and the Struggle for Identities
from World War I to Nasser/ Donald Malcolm Reid.—Cairo: The American University in Cairo
Press, 2015.
p. cm.
ISBN 978 977 416 689 1
1. Egypt—Antiquities
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Designed by Adam el-Sehemy
Printed in Egypt
For my Grandchildren: Juliette, Malcolm, and Ben
and
For the Grandchildren of Egypt

Contents
Map of Egypt ix
List of Figures xi
List of Tables xv
List of Abbreviations xvii
Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Dates xix
Acknowledgments xxi
Introduction 1
Part One: Egyptology and Pharaonism to 1930
1. Egyptology and Pharaonism in Egypt before Tutankhamun 19
2. Nationalizing Tutankhamun 51
3. Western Egyptology in Egypt in the Wake
of Tutankhamun, 1922–1930 81
4. Egyptian Egyptology and Pharaonism in
the Wake of Tutankhamun, 1922–1930 109
Part Two: Tourism and Islamic, Coptic,
and Greco–Roman Archaeologies
5. Consuming Antiquity: Western Tourism between
Two Revolutions, 1919–1952 137
6. In the Shadow of Egyptology: Islamic Art and Archaeology to 1952 167
vii
7. Copts and Archaeology: Sons of Saint Mark / Sons of
the Pharaohs 197
8. Alexandria, Egypt, and the Greco–Roman Heritage 229
Part Three: Egyptology and Pharaonism
to Nasser’s Revolution
9. Contesting Egyptology in the 1930s 263
10. Pharaonism and Its Challengers in the 1930s and 1940s 295
11. Egyptology in the Twilight of Empire and Monarchy, 1939–1952 329
12. Conclusion 355
Notes 369
Bibliography 449
Index 481
viii Contents
Map of Egypt. Donald Malcolm Reid, Whose Pharaohs? (Berkeley: University of Cali-
fornia Press, 2002, and Cairo: AUC Press, 2003), xvii. Adapted with permission of the
University of California Press.