Christina Riggs
Historian of archaeology
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Christina Riggs is a British-American historian, academic, and former museum curator. She specializes in the history of archaeology, history of photography, and ancient Egyptian art, and her recent work has concentrated on the history, politics, and contemporary legacy of the 1922 discovery of Tutankahmun's tomb. Since 2019, she has been Professor of the History of Visual Culture at Durham University. She is also a former Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. The author of several academic books, Riggs also writes on ancient Egyptian themes for a wider audience. Her most recent books include Ancient Egyptian Magic: A Hands-On Guide and Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century.
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Published Works
- The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt: Art, Identity, and Funerary Religion (2006) (54)
- The Oxford handbook of Roman Egypt (2012) (49)
- Unwrapping Ancient Egypt (2014) (33)
- Facing the Dead: Recent Research on the Funerary Art of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt (2002) (19)
- Shouldering the past: Photography, archaeology, and collective effort at the tomb of Tutankhamun (2017) (15)
- Ancient Egypt in the Museum: Concepts and Constructions (2010) (13)
- Roman Period Mummy Masks from Deir El-Bahri * (2000) (12)
- Current Research in Egyptology 2019 (2001) (9)
- The body in the box: archiving the Egyptian mummy (2017) (9)
- Photographing Tutankhamun: Archaeology, Ancient Egypt, and the Archive (2018) (9)
- Archaism and Artistic Sources in Roman Egypt: The Coffins of the Soter Family and the Temple of Deir el-Medina (2006) (7)
- Colonial visions: Egyptian antiquities and contested histories in the Cairo museum. (2013) (7)
- Current research in Egyptology (2000) (6)
- Book Review: Untersuchungen zu den Frauenstatuen des Ptolemäischen Ägypten (2006) (5)
- An autopsic art: drawings of ‘Dr Granville's mummy’ in the Royal Society archives (2016) (4)
- Mourning women and decorum in ancient Egyptian art (2013) (4)
- 16. Tradition And Innovation In The Burial Practices In Roman Egypt (2010) (4)
- A Roman Shroud and its Demotic Inscriptions in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2003) (4)
- Beautiful Burials, Beautiful Skulls: The Aesthetics of the Egyptian Mummy (2016) (3)
- Ancient Egyptian Art and Architecture: A Very Short Introduction (2014) (3)
- Photography and Antiquity in the Archive, or How Howard Carter Moved the Road to the Valley of the Kings (2016) (3)
- Archaism and Kingship: A Late Royal Statue and its Early Dynastic Model * (2001) (3)
- Objects in the photographic archive: Between the field and the museum in Egyptian archaeology (2017) (3)
- Forms of the Wesekh Collar in Funerary Art of the Graeco-Roman Period (2001) (3)
- Egypt: Lost Civilizations (2017) (2)
- Mr Five Per Cent: The Many Lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the World’s Richest Man by Jonathan Conlin (2019) (2)
- Funerary rituals (Ptolemaic and Roman Periods) (2010) (2)
- Loose bodies: Reserve collections, curatorial reservations, and the ancient Egyptian dead (2017) (2)
- Archaeology and Photography (2020) (1)
- The Art of Ancient Egypt (2002) (1)
- Photographing Tutankhamun: Photo-Objects and the Archival Afterlives of Colonial Archaeology (2019) (1)
- Discussing knowledge in the making (2014) (1)
- The Tomb of Petosiris (2009) (1)
- In the Shadows: The Study of Ancient Egyptian Art (2017) (1)
- Photographing Tutankhamun (2020) (1)
- Late Antique Egyptian Funerary Sculpture. Images for this World and the Next (2000) (1)
- Book Review: La Mort N'est Pas Une Fin. Pratiques Funéraires en Egypte D'Alexandre à Cléopâtre. Catalogue de L'Exposition 28 Septembre 2002–5 Janvier 2003, Musée de L'Arles Antique (2006) (1)
- The body in the box: archiving the Egyptian mummy (2016) (0)
- Juvenile Decertification in Philadelphia County: a Model for Jurisdiction-Specific Research (2010) (0)
- Lesley McFadyen & Dan Hicks (ed.). 2020. Archaeology and photography: time, objectivity and archive. London: Bloomsbury; 978-1-3500-2968-2 hardback. (2020) (0)
- The Body (2020) (0)
- 'Soternalia' from Deir el-Bahri, Including two Coffins Lids with Demotic Inscriptions (Pl IX-XIV) (2002) (0)
- Book Review of Visualizing the Afterlife in the Tombs of Graeco-Roman Egypt, by Marjorie Susan Venit (2018) (0)
- Gilding the lily: Shrouds, sculpture, and the representation of women in Ptolemaic and early Roman Egypt (2008) (0)
- «Soternalia» from Deir El-Bahri, including two coffin lids with demotic inscriptions (2002) (0)
- Lions, pylons, and feet: A small-scale linen shroud in the Bolton Museum and Art Gallery (2009) (0)
- Greco-Roman Egypt (2013) (0)
- Tutankhamun: The Original Photographs (2017) (0)
- GAR volume 59 issue 2 Cover and Back matter (2012) (0)
- Tire jack: Using GTR elevates performance in asphalt pavements (2015) (0)
- Nécropolis I@@@Necropolis I (2002) (0)
- Book Review: Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt: A Sourcebook (2003) (0)
- Portraits, Prestige, Piety: Images of Women in Roman Egypt (2012) (0)
- Nuns and Guns: Thoughts on Heritage, Histories, and Egyptology (2017) (0)
- The king as a falcon: A "lost" statue of Thutmose III rediscovered and reunited (2010) (0)
- A Roman Period child's mummy in the Saffron Walden Museum (2013) (0)
- Reborn-Digital Tutankhamun: Howard Carter and an Egyptian Archaeologist, Name Unknown (2021) (0)
- Martin Andreas StadlerÄgyptische Mumienmasken in Würzburg. 2004 Reichert Verlag Wiesbaden € 29 (2010) (0)
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