Labib Habachi: The Life and legacy of an EgyptologistLabib Habachi, Egypt's most perceptive and productive Egyptologist, was marginalized for most of his career, only belatedly receiving international recognition for his major contributions to the field. In Labib Habachi: The Life and Legacy of an Egyptologist, Jill Kamil presents not only a long-overdue biography of this important scholar, but a survey of Egyptian archaeology in the twentieth century in which Habachi's work is measured against that of his best-known contemporaries--among them Selim Hassan, Ahmed Fakhry, Abdel Moneim Abu Bakr, and Gamal Mokhtar. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Egyptology in the Early Twentieth Century | 25 |
Between Two Worlds | 41 |
Bridging the Gap | 69 |
A Turning Point | 91 |
Excavation and Discovery | 115 |
The Cult of Heqaib | 147 |
Labib Habachi and Ahmed Fakhry | 177 |
A New Era | 189 |