Middle Eastern History
From the Archives: Who Made the Map of the Modern Middle East?
Sometimes life and/or deadlines take over, making it difficult for me to provide new blog posts on a regular schedule. This is one of those times. For the coming weeks, I’ll be sharing posts from the archives, an occasional guest post, and maybe a book review or two as I finish some of the exciting…
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From the Archives: Slouching Toward Jerusalem
I really meant to have a brand new blog post for you all today, but the one I was working expanded in all directions (six asterisked footnotes at last count) and finally turned into a tangled mess. The footnotes are currently the only readable part. Rather than leaving you without a Friday post, I’m sharing…
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Women in the Valley of the Kings
One of my favorite books as a child was C.W. Ceram’s Gods’ Graves and Scholars. His aim, described in his foreword, was “to portray the dramatic qualities of archaeology, its human side.” And at some level he succeeded admirably. Ceram is largely responsible for my lifelong fascination with archaeology. It was only when Kathleen Sheppard’s…
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