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Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age [Audiobook]
B0D8X9L7LJ M4B@64 kbps Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age [Audiobook] Sheppard begins with the earliest European women who ventured to Egypt as travelers: Amelia Edwards, Jenny Lane, and Marianne Brocklehurst. Their travelogues, diaries, and maps chronicled a new world for the curious. In the vast desert, Maggie Benson, the first woman granted permission to excavate in Egypt, met Nettie Gourlay, the woman who became her lifelong companion. They battled issues of oppression and exclusion and, ultimately, are credited with excavating the Temple of Mut. Women in the Valley of the Kings upends the grand male narrative of Egyptian exploration and shows how a group of courageous women charted unknown territory and changed the field of Egyptology forever.