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A “kind of exploration or antiquity-dealing-business”: Egyptian archaeology and the Antiquities Trade 1880-1939

Egyptological historiography has often focussed on the apparent scientific heroism of archaeologists, obscuring the reality that many of the same heroes were also active in the antiquities market, buying, and selling objects freely. This lecture will discuss the results of research into the entanglement of archaeology and the market 1880-1939....

Potter, Daniel M
Egypt, Charles Trick Currelly, John Garstang, antiquities , Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie , Sudan, archaeology, museum collections, correspondence, archaeological excavations, and Edwin Ward archive