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NEGOTIATINGFORTHEPAST THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK Archaeology, Nationalism, NEGOTIATING and Diplomacy FOR THE PAST in the Middle East, 1919–1941 James F. Goode UniversityofTexasPress Austin Copyright©2007bytheUniversityofTexasPress Allrightsreserved PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica Firstedition,2007 Requestsforpermissiontoreproducematerialfromthiswork shouldbesentto: Permissions UniversityofTexasPress P.O.Box7819 Austin,TX78713-7819 www.utexas.edu/utpress/about/bpermission.html (cid:9)Thepaperusedinthisbookmeetstheminimum requirementsofansi/nisoz39.48–1992(r1997)(Permanenceof Paper). LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Goode,JamesF.,1944– Negotiatingforthepast:archaeology,nationalism,anddiplomacyin theMiddleEast,1919–1941/JamesF.Goode.—1sted. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. isbn-13:978-0-292-71497-7(cloth:alk.paper) isbn-10:0-292-71497-1(alk.paper) isbn-13:978-0-292-71498-4(pbk.:alk.paper) isbn-10:0-292-71498-x(alk.paper) 1.MiddleEast—Antiquities. 2.Archaeology—MiddleEast. 3.Archaeologicalthefts—MiddleEast. 4.Nationalism—Middle East. I.Title. ds56.g55 2007 939'.4—dc22 2006037510 ToourArab,Persian,andTurkishfriends,formanykindnesses THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK CONTENTS Preface ix Introduction 1 1.EndoftheOldOrder 19 2.TheSardisAffair 31 3.HeirsoftheHittites 43 4.EgyptAwakening 67 5.HousingEgypt’sTreasures 99 6.France’sClosedDoor 127 7.WinningPersepolis 141 8.TroublesoverIran 167 9.ArchaeologyasUsual 185 10.TheReignofSati(cid:3)al-Husri 203 11.ANewEra 223 12.Reflections 229 viii NegotiatingforthePast Notes 235 Bibliography 267 Index 281 PREFACE Myintroductiontothissubjectwasserendipitous.Whiledoingresearch inU.S.StateDepartmentrecordsattheNationalArchives,Irepeatedly cameacrossreferencestoPersepolisandanongoingcrisisinU.S.-Iranian relationsduringthe1930s,whicharousedmycuriosity.AsaPeaceCorps volunteerinIran,IhadvisitedPersepolisin1969andagainin1971,butI hadneverconnecteditinanywaytoforeignaffairs.Idecidedtoinvesti- gateoncethecurrentresearchwascompleted. Thatwaswelloveradecadeago,andIhavebeenengagedonthisproject eversince.Iquicklydiscoveredatriadofactorsinvolvedinthatandother, similarregionalcrises.TherewereU.S.diplomatssupportingAmerican archaeologists,whoencounteredincreasingchallengesfromlocalnation- alists.Thesethreegroupshaveprovidedthesubtitleand,moreimportant, thesubstanceofthisstudy. Originally,IintendedtofocusonIran,butgraduallytheprojectspread beyonditsborderstoincludeTurkey,Egypt,andIraq,forthemoreIre- searched,themoreclearlyIcouldseesimilaritiesandlinksbetweendevel- opmentsinthesefourcountries.Mycareerpathledmetothreeofthese nations,firstthelongresidenceinIran,thenayearlongFulbrightgrantin Turkey,andfinallynumerousvisitstoEgyptasdirectorofstudy-abroad programs.Thishasaffordedopportunitiestovisitarchives,museums,and sites and to interview several archaeologists. Upon reflection, I suppose thebroadscopeofthisstudywasalmostpredestined,forIhavealwayshad a keen interest in thevarious peoples of the Middle East, especially the Arabs,Persians,andTurks,andanappreciationforthemanyparallelsin theirhistories. Other works have taken up the subject of the intersection of archae- ologyandnationalism,buttheyhavedonethisalmostexclusivelywithin thebordersofasinglenation.Ofthisgenre,DonaldReid’sfinestudyon Egypt, Whose Pharaohs? (2002), and more recently Magnus Bernhards- son’s Reclaiming a Plundered Past (2006) on Iraq come readily to mind.

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