Archeology and Cultural Exchange in the Middle Ages
From decoding ancient hieroglyphics, to the artistic and cultural exchange between Africa and Europe in the Middle Ages to the origins of Stonehenge, the history of the world is being rewritten
Ancient Egypt for the Egyptians (NYRB, May 2021)
Europeans made—and carried away—many of the most famous discoveries of the “Golden Age of Egyptology,” but Egyptians today are beginning to reclaim their own past.
A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology (book)
Barra and Zaman: Reading Egyptian Modernity in Shadi Abdel Salam’s The Mummy (book)
Treasures of the Sahel (NYRB, May 2020)
Howard W. French
Three Weeks Wide (LRB, July 2022)
Geography and history have long been treated as separate fields of study, but William Camden's 1586 publication of Britannia, The Situationists of May 1968, and the earth mysteries movement of Stonehenge have all sought to bridge the gap between the two
France: An Adventure History (book)
‘Peru: A Journey in Time’ (LRB, February 2022)
At Machu Picchu, the ancient Inca citadel built for Emperor Pachacuti, time is viewed as a triple spiral of past, present, and future existing in simultaneous realities.
Leave me my illusions (LRB, July 2021)
In her new book, Time's Witness, Rosemary Hill examines the work of more than thirty antiquaries from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. These scholars studied mysterious inscriptions, stone circles, and ruined abbeys, gathering rusty weaponry, stained glass, and old ballads in the process.
Filberds and trinkets (TLS, July 2021)
The antiquarian pursuit of ‘non-verbal’ history
The dead have no names (TLS, January 2020)
Archaeology and the search for narrative
At the mercy of the public (TLS, April 2021)
Is it necessary to kill some statues, or could we add to them?
Out of Edo (TLS, March 2021)
The ongoing conflict over African artefacts in European hands
