Last Summer the New York Times Book Review reviewed “Women In The Valley of the Kings,” a look at a number of criminally unacknowledged female pioneers of Egyptian archaeology. An excerpt reads:
Kathleen Sheppard’s “Women in the Valley of the Kings,” a new history of Egyptology that prioritizes the women whose contributions, for good and otherwise, shaped the field. While men opened tombs and won headlines, it was women like Brocklehurst, Emma Andrews, Margaret Alice Murray and Caroline Ransom Williams who frequently funded the men’s expeditions, organized their digs, tracked and cataloged their finds. Sheppard calls these women “the pillars on which the male heroes of Western Egyptology stood.”
