TY  - BOOK
AU  - Colla, Elliott
AB  - Conflicted Antiquities is a rich cultural history of European and Egyptian interest in ancient Egypt and its material culture, from the early nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth. Consulting the relevant Arabic archives, Elliott Colla demonstrates that the emergence of Egyptology—the study of ancient Egypt and its material legacy—was as consequential for modern Egyptians as it was for Europeans. The values and practices introduced by the new science of archaeology played a key role in the formation of a new colonial regime in Egypt. This fact was not lost on Egyptian nationalists, who challenged colonial archaeologists with the claim that they were the direct heirs of the Pharaohs, and therefore the rightful owners and administrators of ancient Egypt’s historical sites and artifacts. As this dispute developed, nationalists invented the political and expressive culture of “Pharaonism”—Egypt’s response to Europe’s Egyptomania.
DO  - 10.1215/9780822390398
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1004300
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 823850594
KW  - History
KW  - Egyptology
KW  - Arabic
KW  - European
KW  - Archaeology
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/b6e5a487-c0d1-4f42-90ca-d1f30486f261/1004300.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25789
PB  - Duke University Press
PP  - Durham, NC
PY  - 2007-01-01
SN  - 9780822390398
TI  - Conflicted Antiquities : Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity
ER  - 
