Tutankhamun and Carter

Assessing the Impact of a Major Archaeological Find

Rogerio Sousa, Gabriele Pieke, Tine Bagh (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2024
Casemate Publishers (Verlag)
979-8-88857-067-8 (ISBN)

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Multi-disciplined reassessment of the excavation of Tutankhamun’s tomb, its impact on modern representations of Egypt, categories of hitherto overlooked objects, and the importance of his reign.

One hundred years after its discovery, this book revisits Tutankhamun’s tomb with a view to reassess the circumstances in which it was excavated by Carter and to estimate how it has impacted both scientific and popular representations of Egypt at large. In short, this book examines the find of Tutankhamun as a multidimension cultural phenomenon involving aspects concerning the historical circumstances of the find, how it was studied over the years, how it impacted our knowledge on Tutankhamun’s reign and our own perception of Egyptian civilization. The studies are presented along four sections, addressing different, yet complementary aspects of Tutankhamun’s 'phenomenon'.

The first section addresses the historical circumstances of the find with updated research resulting from the critical examination of different types of archival sources. These studies contradict long standing biased views on this process and systematize the archaeological and conservation paradigms involved in the discovery. Section 2 revolves around categories of objects that have been almost completely overlooked by Egyptological studies, providing a fresh input and new insights not only on the material culture of Ancient Egypt, but also on the circumstances of the find itself. Section 3 examines the impact of Tutankhamun’s tomb on media, literature, and design and how it shaped contemporary representations of Egypt, as well as the phenomenon of 'Tut-mania' in popular culture.

The fourth section addresses the reign of Tutankhamun itself. Different types of documentary sources univocally suggest the importance of this reign in shaping the cultural landscape of Egypt throughout the Ramesside period which clearly challenges the longstanding view of this reign as a minor and insignificant episode of Egyptian history. These studies show the many lacunae that still prevent us from understanding the historical processes involved before and after Tutankhamun’s reign.

Rogério Sousa is Main Researcher at the University of Porto. He completed his PhD in 2006 at the same university. His main research interests are the anthropoid coffin decoration in ancient Egypt and the Hellenization of the Egyptian cults in ancient Alex Member of the Direction board of the CIPEG. Curator at the Reiss-Engelhorn Museen. Director of the CIPEG. Curator of the Egyptian Departament at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen.

Part I : Carter and Tutankhamun’s tomb

1. A Chronicle No Longer Gold: Re-presenting the Oxford Archive in 2022 (Richard Bruce Parkinson)

2. The Tutankhamun Affair in the Lacau archives: the diplomatic stakes of a discovery (Carole Jarsaillon)

3. The archaeological thought in Howard Carter: on manuals, methods and tools in the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun (Daniel Carvalho)

4. The Laboratory in the Tomb Next Door: Lucas and the Science of Conserving Tutankhamun's Treasures (Jenny l. Cashman)

5. Tutankhmammon. Howard Carter, Calouste Gulbenkian, and the market for Egyptian art in the 1920s (Tom Hardwick)

Part II : Re-discovering Tutankhamun’s find

6. Materials, Technologies, and Archaeological Documentation (André J. Veldmeijer and Salima Ikram)

7. The furniture that shapes our world. A re-examination of Tutankhamun’s beds, chairs, and thrones (Manon Y. Schutz)

8. 'Absolutely new in type': The anthropomorphized signs on the monuments of king Tutankhamun (Ghada Mohamed)

9. How a close look at the many boxes and shabtis from Tutankhamun's tomb can contribute to understanding its 'archaeology' (Christian Loeben)

Part III: The impact of Tutankhamun’s find

10. Tutankhamun in Portugal. Reports in the Portuguese press (1922-1939) (José Sales and Susana Mota)

11. 'Tut-mania' through the Iconography of Egyptian Ex Libris (Valentin Boyer)

12. The impact of Tutankhamun's tomb discovery in Agatha Christie 's novels and short stories (Nuno Simões Rodrigues)

13. Hearts of Glass: Identifying the styles and sources of the Neiger brothers’ Egyptian Revival jewellery (Jasmine Day)

14. The ‘Tutanchamun’ exhibition of the years 1980 and 1981 in Germany and its research, museographic, and sociological repercussions. The definitive recognition of ‘the Egyptian’ in society (José Pérez Negre)

15. Tutankhamun, the Pop Idol: The Tut-Mania Phenomenon and Its influence on the Wider Public (Valentina Santini)

Part IV: Tutankhamun and the legacy of Amarna

16. Understanding the Reigns of Tutankhamun and his predecessors from the objects in the Tomb of Tutankhamun (Nozomu Kawai)

17. The Man behind the Mask. On Royal Portraiture in Post-Amarna Art (Dimitri Laboury)

18. Tutorial ‘How to change your predecessors’ names into Tutankhamun’ (Katja Broschat)

19. Tutankhamun and post-amarnian visions of the afterlife (Rogério Sousa)

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.6.2024
Zusatzinfo	200 b/w and color images
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 279 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-13	979-8-88857-067-8 / 9798888570678
Zustand	Neuware