Date:
Wednesday, November 16, 2016, 6:00pm
See also: Lecture
Location:
Northwest Building, Lecture Hall B103, 52 Oxford Street
Sarah L. Ketchley, Lecturer, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, University of Washington
Emma B. Andrews is best remembered for her association with Theodore M. Davis, the American millionaire lawyer-turned-archaeologist and antiquities collector, who donated many spectacular Egyptian objects to the Harvard Semitic Museum. Traveling to Egypt with him between 1889 and 1912, Andrews kept detailed journals of their voyages along the Nile, including Davis’ under-reported excavations of significant tombs in the Valley of the Kings. These diaries provide vital commentary on both the archaeology and the pioneering Egyptologists of that era. Sarah Ketchley will discuss a major project to digitize Andrews’ diaries and explain why they are an invaluable resource in understanding the lives of the colonial gentry and the cultural and scientific literati in Egypt at the dawn of the twentieth century.
Free and open to the public.