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Autor:
Billie Melman
In this original and widely researched book, Billie Melman explores the culture of history during the age of modernity. Her book is about the production of English pasts, the multiplicity of their representations and the myriad ways in which the Engl
Autor:
Billie Melman
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Representations. 145:129-151
This article explores the multiple visual presences of antiquity in the first half of the twentieth century and connects visual histories to the history of empires. It shows how archaeology mediated between the newly discovered material civilizations
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https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2019.145.1.129
https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2019.145.1.129
Autor:
Billie Melman
Publikováno v:
Empires of Antiquities
Chapter 7 considers the discovery, after the First World War, of the prehistoric Near East and explores its far-reaching impact on discourses on the origins of humans, their migrations, and the migration of civilizations, on time and its scale, and t
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198824558.003.0008
Autor:
Billie Melman
Publikováno v:
Empires of Antiquities
Focusing on one archaeological mound, Tell ed-Duweir, in the lowland region of Palestine, in the vicinity of Hebron, identified as biblical Lachish, the fortress city in the kingdom of Judah, Chapter 4 moves between London, the Tell, and its neighbou
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198824558.003.0005
Autor:
Billie Melman
Publikováno v:
Empires of Antiquities
Chapter 10 examines the rediscovery, between the early 1920s and the 1950s, of the Graeco-Roman Near East, particularly Egypt. It considers the writings and activities of archaeologists, explorers, modernist writers, and journalists, who experienced
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198824558.003.0011
Autor:
Billie Melman
Publikováno v:
Empires of Antiquities
Chapter 5 focuses on Ur, Tell al-Muqayyar, in southern Iraq, and the discovery and popularization, after the First World War, of Sumerian civilization, largely unknown until then. Excavated between 1922 and 1934 by an Anglo-American expedition direct
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198824558.003.0006
Autor:
Billie Melman
Publikováno v:
Empires of Antiquities
Chapter 3 explores the search, during the 1920s, for the origins of David’s city and a monotheistic Jerusalem. It recovers international, metropolitan, and local mandate initiatives for verifying the location of Jerusalem’s oldest part, Mount Oph
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198824558.003.0004
Autor:
Billie Melman
Publikováno v:
Empires of Antiquities
Chapter 6 examines the diffusion of ancient Near Eastern history and its archaeological discovery to popular culture. It focuses on the archaeological murder mysteries of Agatha Christie, one of Britain’s top-selling writers and a popular modernist
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198824558.003.0007
Autor:
Billie Melman
Publikováno v:
Empires of Antiquities
In February 1979, Gerald Lankester Harding’s ashes were flown to Jordan for a second and final funerary service. His body had been cremated in London but, following the behest of the Royal House of Jordan, the ashes which had been deposited by the
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198824558.003.0012
Autor:
Billie Melman
In the archaeological seasons of 1937 and 1938, 34-year-old Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan excavated on Tell Brak in north-eastern Syria. Apprenticed at the lucrative archaeological expeditions to Ur and Nineveh, Mallowan was beginning to make a name for
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