Golia Maria Golia

Short History of Tomb-Raiding (eBook, ePUB)

The Epic Hunt for Egypt's Treasures

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A spine-tingling exploration of a venture as ancient as the pyramids themselves. To secure a comfortable afterlife, ancient Egyptians built fortress-like tombs and filled them with precious goods, a practice that generated staggering quantities of artifacts over the course of many millennia-and also one that has drawn thieves and tomb-raiders to Egypt since antiquity. Drawing on modern scholarship, reportage, and period sources, this book tracks the history of treasure-seekers in Egypt and the social contexts in which they operated, revealing striking continuities throughout time. Readers will recognize the foibles of today's politicians and con artists, the perils of materialism, and the cycles of public compliance and dissent in the face of injustice. In describing an age-old pursuit and its timeless motivations, A Short History of Tomb-Raiding shows how much we have in common with our Bronze Age ancestors.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Reaktion Books
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781789146301
• Artikelnr.: 72427017

Autorenporträt

A long-time resident of Cairo, Maria Golia is author of several critically acclaimed books dealing with Egypt's present moment and past history. She is the author, most recently, of Ornette Coleman: The Territory and the Adventure, also published by Reaktion Books.

Rezensionen

A Short History of Tomb-Raiding' is a book of wonders, a latter-day Book of the Dead. In a wide-ranging and eloquent account of tomb robbery in Egypt across the millennia and right up to the present day we are presented with a parade of pharaohs, priests, embalmers, builders of pyramids, death-dealing robots, tomb robbers, sorcerers, jinn, geomancers, confidence tricksters, rubes and archaeologists. Maria Golia has written an exhilarating masterpiece of social and intellectual history.', Robert Irwin, consulting Middle East editor at the Times Literary Supplement, and author of 'Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography'
'Maria Golia skilfully combines secret passages, blind alleys, priest, plunderers, magicians and mummies to explore the venerable tradition of tomb raiding in Egypt. Vividly written and filled with unusual illustrations, this book is a must for anyone interested in Egypt, the secret books of treasure hunters and the antiquities trade.', Salima Ikram, Distinguished University Professor of Egyptology, The American University in Cairo, and author of 'Ancient Egypt: An Introduction'
'The history of tomb-raiding ranges across the boundaries between fact and fantasy, archaeology and magic, scholarship and crime. It extends from Greek and Roman treasure hunters to Arab sorcerers, necropolis-dwelling clans to European adventurers, and forms a continuous narrative that connects the age of the pharaohs to the academic experts and museum collections of today. Maria Golia is a deeply informed chronicler of Egypt ancient and modern, and this is a panoramic and gloriously illustrated survey of its fabled secrets, treasures and wonders.', Mike Jay, author of 'Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic'
'This book is a must read. Maria Golia creatively and accurately connects the ancient with the modern to narrate an engaging history of Egypt through the greed of pilferers and treasure hunters, the collusion of rulers and the swell of popular revolts.', Alaa Al Aswany, author of 'The Yacoubian Building'