Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age by Kathleen Sheppard: A Book Review
Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age Author: Kathleen Sheppard Genre: Nonfiction, History, Biography Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Book Release Date: 2024 Pages: 310 Source: Netgalley/Publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: The never-before-told story of the women Egyptologists who paved the way who paved the way for exploration in Egypt and laid the groundwork for Egyptology. 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 so-called 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. ...