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New Books in Archaeology

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Jason Thompson, "Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology" (AU of Cairo, 2018)

Jason Thompson, "Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology" (AU of Cairo, 2018)

When asked what he saw after reverently peering into the freshly opened tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, Egyptologist Howard... Read more

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Jack Green and Ros Henry, "Olga Tufnell’s 'Perfect Journey': Letters and Photographs of an Archaeologist in the Levant and Mediterranean" (UCL Press, 2021)

Jack Green and Ros Henry, "Olga Tufnell’s 'Perfect Journey': Letters and Photographs of an Archaeologist in the Levant and Mediterranean" (UCL Press, 2021)

Olga Tufnell (1905–85) was a British archaeologist working in Egypt, Cyprus, and Palestine in the 1920s and 1930s, a per... Read more

2 Aug 2023

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