The Afterlives of Egyptian History: Reuse and Reformulation of Objects, Places, and Texts

An examination of the myriad lifetimes lived by ancient Egyptian artifacts

Egypt has a particular longue durée, a continuity of preservation in deep time, not seen in other parts of the world. Over the centuries, ancient buildings have been adopted for purposes that differed from the original. Temple sites have been transformed into places of worship for new deities or turned into houses and tombs. Tombs, in turn, have been adapted to function as human dwellings already in the Late Antique Period.

The Afterlives of Egyptian History expands on the traditional academic approach of studying the original function and sociopolitical circumstances of ancient Egyptian objects, texts, and sites to examine their secondary lives by exploring their reuse, modification, and reinterpretation.

Written in honor of the Egyptologist, Edward Bleiberg, this volume brings together a group of luminous scholars from a wide range of fields, including Egyptian archaeology, philology, conservation, and art, to explore the historical circumstances, as well as political and economic situations, of people who have come into contact with ancient Egypt, both in antiquity and in more recent times.

• Yekaterina Barbash, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY USA
• Lisa Bruno, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY USA
• Simon Connor, F.R.S.-FNRS, Brussels, Belgium and University of Liege, Liege, Belgium
• Kathlyn (Kara) Cooney, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA USA
• Richard Fazzini, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY USA
• Peter Lacovara, Ancient Egyptian Archaeology and Heritage Fund, Albany, NY USA
• Ronald J. Leprohon, University of Toronto, Canada
• Mary McKercher, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY USA
• Edmund Meltzer, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, California USA
• Joachim Friedrich Quack, Heidelberg University, Tiffin, Ohio USA
• Paul Edmund Stanwick, independent scholar, New York, NY USA
• Emily Teeter, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA
• Kathy Zurek-Doule, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY USA