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Empires of Antiquities: Modernity and the Rediscovery of the Ancient Near East, 1914–1950
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
Tell Brak, 1937–1938
Taking Stock of the Historiographies: A Note
The New Order of Antiquities: An Entangled History and Its Agents
The Complex of Antiquity: Some Features
Materials, Exclusions, and Structure
I: Antiquity and the New Post-War Imperial Order
Chapter 1: Mandated Pasts: War, Peace, and the New Regime of Antiquities
Loot: The First World War and the Spoils of Antiquity
A Post-War Order: General Characteristics
The War on the Past: Re-Defining Heritage in the Greater Great War
Legislating and Defining Antiquity
A Regime of Excavations: Visions of Intellectual Cooperation˛and˛Internationalist Rhetoric
II: Biblical Pasts in Mandated Palestine
Chapter 2: Illustrating the Bible: Travel, Archaeology, and Modernity in Mandated Biblical Lands
Biblical Lands: A Map and Networks
Biblical Idioms
Biblical Travel and Its Modernization
Biblical Materiality: Archaeology, Display, and Scriptural Antiquity
Chapter 3: Cities of David: Planning and Excavating Jerusalem
Earthquake
Antiquities: Preservation, Discovery, and Renewal
Mount Ophel: From Underground Jerusalem to the City of David—a Genealogy of Excavations
Internationalizing Jerusalem: Publicity, the Media, and the City of David
Caulifowers Sprout on the City of David: The Value of Antiquity
Chapter 4: Lachish: Excavation, Land, and Violence—Tell ed-Duweir, c.1932–1945
A Funeral in Jerusalem
Lachish: Identi˜cations, Texts, and Sherds
Archaeology and Physical Anthropology: Collaborations and Interpretations
Colonial Collaborations
III: \"The Most Ancient Past\": Mesopotamian Antiquities and Modernity
Chapter 5: Ur: Modernity and the Matter of Antiquity between Two World Wars
“Entomb’d Chaldean Kish and Ur”
Ur: A Map
Cities of Abraham: Rewriting Biblical Histories of Ur
Queen Puabi’s Headdress: Splendour, Death, and Modernity
Publicizing Ur: Display, Capital, and the Consumption of Antiquity
Chapter 6: Murder in Mesopotamia: Antiquity, Genres of Modernity, and Gender in the Popular Crime Novel
Detection and Excavation: Crime Literature and the Discovery of the Past
Crime, Travel, and Modernity: A Map of a Connective Empire
The Tell: Archaeology, Prehistory, and Modernity in Agatha Christie’s Writing
Archaeology and Disrupted Domesticity: Murder in Mesopotamia
Chapter 7: Prehistories for Modernity: Stone Age Humans and Others in Palestine and Mesopotamia
The Most Ancient East
Modernity and the Stone Age on Mount Carmel: Development and Archaeology
Stone Age Men and Tools
“To a Neanderthal Woman”: Feelings, Gender, and the Stone Age
The Attractions of Mesopotamian Prehistory: Pottery, Modernity, and Politics
Arpachiyah
IV: Egypt\'s Ancient Pasts: Empire, Antiquity, and Technology
Chapter 8: Egyptian Antiquity, Imperial Politics, and Modernity: Tutankhamun and After
1922 and Beyond: A Note
“All Roads Lead to Egypt”: Connectivity, Speed, and Antiquity between the Two World Wars
The Politics of Discovery: The Changing Regime of Archaeology and Interwar Politics
The Ancient as Modern: Tutankhamun, Modern Life, and Egyptian Presences in Popular Culture
Chapter 9: “Nefertiti Lived Here”: Amarna, Imperial Crises, and Domestic Modernity, 1920–1939
Amarna: A Map
Royal Amarna and Crises of Empire
Urban Lives Past and Present
Commerce and Display
Nefertiti Lived Here: Feelings and the Matter of Antiquity
Chapter 10: The Road to Alexandria, the Paths to Siwa: Hellenism, the Modern World, and the End of Empires, 1915–1956
Competing Hellenisms
Taking the Graeco-Roman Turn: Some Continuities
Hellenized Cities on the Margins of Empires
Alexandria: Hellenistic Cosmopolitanism Present and Past
All Roads Lead to Siwa
Siwa Past and Present: Antiquity, Customs, and Manners
Conclusion: Gerald Lankester Harding’s Second Funeral
The Complex of Antiquities and Empire: Continuities, Changes, and Commonalities
Knowing about Antiquity: Forms and Practices
The Most Ancient Past: Texts, Narratives, and Temporalities
Empires of Antiquities: The Past as a Future
Bibliography
1. Archival Sources
2. International Conventions and Treaties
3. Newspapers and Periodicals
4. League of Nations’ Publications
5. Archaeological Reports, Books, and Histories
6. Popular History, Archaeology, and Commentary
7. Surveys, Travel Books, Urban Plans, Ethnographies, and Tourist Guides
8. Autobiographies, Memoirs, and Correspondence
9. Fiction, Poetry, and Essays
10. Archaeological Films
11. Select Secondary Bibliography
12. Dissertations
13. Websites
Index