Motherhood and Early Childhood in Ancient Egypt: Culture, Religion, and Medicine

Marshall, Amandine

Religion & Spirituality

The American University in Cairo Press

Review\n"This book fills a significant gap in our knowledge about children and childhood in ancient Egypt, subjects that have not received the attention that they deserve. Using texts, images, and artefacts, Amandine Marshall provides a holistic view of what it was to grow up in ancient Egypt."—Salima Ikram, author of Death and Burial in Ancient Egypt\n"In the same way we have to parse the stories of women because they are told by men, Marshall unravels the stories of children as communicated by adults. She has rescued childhood from its unwritten and forgotten state, using a variety of evidence to tell us about that most vulnerable time before social identity was formed in ancient Egypt. She wields the sources ably, using what we know, what we don’t, and prying into what we could still determine. She doesn’t treat childhood as a monolith, instead investigating various categories of child, as male or female, rich or poor, urban or rural."—Kara Cooney, UCLA\n“The child in ancient Egypt, as today, was at the center of the daily life of the Egyptians. Amandine Marshall’s book is a unique example of its kind: her insights, meticulous research, and at the same time highly readable text represent a milestone in ancient world childhood studies. Thanks to her excellent study we have a much better understanding of this world, which vanished almost two millennia ago.”—Miroslav Bárta, Charles University, Prague\n"Research into childhood in Egypt is experiencing a renewal to which the patient work of Amandine Marshall comes as a major contribution. Her multidisciplinary approach, cross-referencing text, image, and archaeology, has allowed her to draft the portrait of a society in which children were ever-present in a multiplicity of situations."—Veronique Dasen, University of Fribourg, from the foreword\n"A masterpiece of archaeological scholarship"—Midwest Book Review\nA groundbreaking account of how the ancient Egyptians perceived children and childhood, from the Predynastic period to the end of the New Kingdom\nThere could be no society, no family, and no social recognition without children. The way in which children were perceived, integrated, and raised within the family and the community established the very foundations of Egyptian society. Childhood in Ancient Egypt is the most comprehensive attempt yet published to reconstruct the everyday life of children from the Predynastic period to the end of the New Kingdom. Drawing on a vast wealth of textual, iconographic, and archaeological sources stretching over a period of 3,500 years, Amandine Marshall pieces together the portrait of a society in which children were ever-present in a multiplicity of situations.\nThe ancient sources are primarily the expressions of male adults, who were little inclined to take an interest in the condition of the child, and the feelings of young Egyptians and all that touches on their emotional state can never be deduced from the sources. Nevertheless, by cross-referencing and comparing thousands of documents, Marshall has been able to explore how ancient Egyptians perceived children and childhood, and whether children had a particular status in the eyes of the law, society, and the Egyptian state. She examines the maintenance of the child and the care expended on its being, and discusses the kinds of clothing, jewelry, and hairstyles children wore, the activities that punctuated their daily lives, the kinds of games and toys they enjoyed, and what means were employed to protect them from illness, evil spirits, or ghosts.\nIllustrated with 160 drawings and photographs, this book sheds unprecedented light upon the experience of childhood in ancient Egypt and represents a major contribution to the growing field of ancient-world childhood studies.

Childhood in Ancient Egypt

L'Égypte antique - Histoire, mythologie et culture

History

Ancient Civilizations

MERCILESLIVRES

Everyone is familiar with the extremely famous king Tutankhamun, his tomb harboring untold riches, its discovery in 1922, and the so-called curse of Tutankhamun, after Lord Carnarvon, patron of the excavations, died suddenly from a mysterious illness. But who has ever heard the fascinating story of how the tomb of Tutankhamun was looted twice in the six months following the funeral of the young king? 
Like a police investigation, the clues (left behind by the robbers and the royal officials whose duty was to close and seal back the tomb) gradually found in each room by English Egyptologist Howard Carter, who discovered the tomb, will help to piece together chapter by chapter, the story behind the looting. Who were the thieves? When and how did they strike? How do we know they benefited from the complicity of the medjays, the Egyptian policemen in charge of patrolling the Valley of the Kings? What did they take away? How do we know that, the second time, they got caught? And what fate awaited such robbers accused of desecrating a royal tomb? So many intriguing questions with clear-cut answers. 
The book will be the opportunity to uncover another unpleasant side of the story – the atrocities that Howard Carter and his team exacted on the royal mummy. In light of confidential reports, forgotten denunciations and supporting photographs, the mistreatment and outrageous autopsy of the mummy of Tutankhamun will be revealed.\nIn this book illustrated with about seventy photographs, many of which have never been published before, French Egyptologist Amandine Marshall reveals the other side of the story of what happened in the most famous tomb in Egypt: the first time, in the 14th century BCE, shortly after the king’s funeral; and the second time, in 1925 CE, when the mummy emerged from the shadows into the light.

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