Resources

The Parlor

  • AlSayyad, Nezar. “Rosetta and the Discovery of Ancient Egypt: Where the Nile Meets the Sea.” In Nile: Urban Histories on the Banks of a River, 195-210. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

 

  • Daly, Nicholas. “That Obscure Object of Desire: Victorian Commodity Culture and Fictions of the Mummy.” NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 28, no. 1 (1994): 24-51.

 

  • Dobson, Eleanor. “‘Drunk on the Dead’: Intoxication, Perfume and Mummy Dust.” In Writing the Sphinx: Literature, Culture and Egyptology, 147-85. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

 

  • Franklin, J. Jeffrey. “Ancient Egyptian Religion in Late Victorian England.” In Spirit Matters: Occult Beliefs, Alternative Religions, and the Crisis of Faith in Victorian Britain, 141-63. Ithaca; London: Cornell University Press, 2018.

 

  • Moshenka, Gabriel. “Unrolling Egyptian Mummies in Nineteenth-century Britain.” The British Journal for the History of Science 47, no. 3 (2014): 451-77.

 

  • Riccardelli, Authors: Carolyn. “Egyptian Faience: Technology and Production | Essay | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History.” The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/egfc/hd_egfc.htm.

 

 

  • White, Raymond. “Brown and Black Organic Glazes, Pigments and Paints.” National Gallery Technical Bulletin 10 (1986): 58-71.

 

The Archive

 

  • Macaulay-Lewis, Elizabeth. “Making The Met, 1870–2020: A Universal Museum for the 21st Century.” American Journal of Archaeology 125, no. 2 (2021).

 

 

 

 

 

The Museum

 

 

 

 

The Future

  • Garcia, Ben. “For Whom the Human Remains?” In Remix: Changing Conversations in Museums of the Americas, edited by Holo Selma and Álvarez Mari-Tere. University of California Press, 2016.

 

  • Gareth Jones, D., and Robyn J. Harris. “Archeological Human Remains: Scientific, Cultural, and Ethical Considerations.” Current Anthropology 39, no. 2 (1998).

 

  • Giesen, Myra, ed. Curating Human Remains: Caring for the Dead in the United Kingdom. Woodbridge, Suffolk; Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2013.

 

 

  • Jones, D Gareth, and Maja I Whitaker. “The Contested Realm of Displaying Dead Bodies.” Journal of Medical Ethics 39, no. 10 (2013).

 

  • Veiga, Paula. “Studying Mummies and Human Remains: Some Current Developments and Issues.” Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 98, no. 2 (2012).

 

  • Woodhead, Charlotte. “Care, Custody and Display of Human Remains: Legal and Ethical Obligations.” In Curating Human Remains: Caring for the Dead in the United Kingdom, edited by Giesen Myra. Woodbridge, Suffolk; Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2013.