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The body in the box: archiving the Egyptian mummy
, 2016 Linking the archive in its literal sense to the metaphorical repercussions of ‘the archive’ in a conceptual sense opens new lines of inquiry into the processes employed in museums to catalogue and store their objects. Archaeology—which was influential in
Christina Riggs, Riggs, Christina
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Meteoritics &Planetary Science, EarlyView.Abstract The framework of the Impact Cratering Committee (ICC) of the Meteoritical Society was approved in 2020, with the first committee members appointed in 2023. The ICC has a mandate to (1) approve, maintain, and update a database of confirmed terrestrial meteorite impact structures, (2) define and regularly update the criteria used for ...
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Civilizing the Nation: Travel, Civility and Bourgeois Nationalism in Israel
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article reads The Lapid Guide to Europe, a bestselling Hebrew‐language travel guide published from the 1970s to the 1990s, as a form of bourgeois nationalism enacted through everyday practices of behaviour. Written by journalist and Holocaust survivor Tommy Lapid, the guide operated as civic pedagogy, instructing Israeli travellers in ...
Daniel Mahla
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT ‘Bottom‐up nationalism’—the belief that the nation is of the people, by the people and for the people—can serve as a powerful collective action frame for mass mobilization. We study the evolution of Tunisian dinar banknote iconography as an indicator of the institutionalization of bottom‐up nationalism before and after the Jasmine Revolution ...
Jacques E. C. Hymans, Chloe Bernadaux
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A visitor-centric Approach to Socially Sustainable Museums: The Egyptian Geological Museum
, 2016 The greatest threat that museums are facing in different parts of the world, including Egypt, is that museums no longer have the capacity to sustain themselves and their activities. Therefore, museums are in need to change the way they function to become
El-Adawy, Eman
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The Painterly Materiality of Clouds in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the cloud‐gazing scenes in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet through the lens of early modern artistic theory and material practices, particularly the art of limning. Building upon existing philosophical and poetic interpretations of Shakespearean clouds as metaphors for ephemerality and memory, the essay argues that the ...
Anne‐Valérie Dulac
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The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL
Archaeology International, 2013 University College London houses one of the world’s most important collections of ancient Egyptian material, the majority excavated by Flinders Petrie, his students and his successors in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is a museum of archaeology that helps to explain the development of a discipline that was in its infancy when Petrie worked ...
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An Egyptian Talisman in Iran National Museum
, 2021 French excavations at Susa in 1930 discovered an Egyptian talisman that is now on display in the Achaemenid gallery of the Iran National Museum. This stone talisman, carved from a black stone is 91 mm in height, and 94 mmin width. It bears carved and relief images, as well as a number of lines in Egyptian hieroglyphs.
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How digitisation of herbaria reveals the botanical legacy of the First World War
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 4, Page 1292-1303, July 2026.Digitisation of herbarium collections is bringing greater understanding to bear on the complexity of narratives relating to the First World War and its aftermath – scientific and societal. Plant collecting during the First World War was more widespread than previously understood, contributed to the psychological well‐being of those involved and ...
Christopher Kreuzer, James A. Wearn
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Whose pharaohs?: archaeology, museums, and Egyptian national identity from Napoleon to World War I
, 2002 Egypt's rich and celebrated ancient past has served many causes throughout history--in both Egypt and the West. Concentrating on the era from Napoleon's conquest and the discovery of the Rosetta Stone to the outbreak of World War I, this book examines ...
Reid, Donald M. (Donald Malcolm) 1940-
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