Consuming Ancient Egypt.

Consuming Ancient Egypt examines the influence of Ancient Egypt on the everyday lives of contemporary people, of all ages, throughout the world.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: MacDonald, Sally
Other Authors: Rice, Michael
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Walnut Creek : Left Coast Press, 2003.
Series:University College London Institute of Archaeology Publications.
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Table of Contents:
  • Series Editor's Foreword; Contents; Contirbutors; List of Figures; 1. Introduction
  • Tea with a Mummy: the consumer's View of Egypt's Immemorial Appeal; 2. 'Mummymania' for the Masses
  • is Egyptology Cursed by the Mummy's Curse?; 3. How to Stage Aida; 4. Vicent Lleo's Operetta: La Corte de Faraon; 5. Egypt in Hollywood: Pharaohs of the Fifties; 6. Lost in Time and Space: Ancient Egypt in Museums; 7. 'Acquisitions of the British Museum, 1998'; 8. Selling Egypt: Encounters at Kahn el-Khalili; 9. Egypt's Past Regenerated by its Own People; 10. What do Tourists Learn of Egypt?
  • 11. 'Wonderful Things': Publishing Egypt in Word and Image12. Hijaking Images: Ancient Egypt in French Commercial Advertising; 13. Alternative Egypts; 14. Ancient Egypt on the Small Screen
  • from Fact to Faction in the UK; References; Index.