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Nuns and Guns: Thoughts on Heritage, Histories, and Egyptology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 September 2017

Christina Riggs
Christina Riggs*
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University of East Anglia
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In March 2017, the Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy opened an exhibition called Missione Egitto 1903–1920, exploring the history of the archaeological excavations from which much of the museum's impressive (and impressively displayed) collection derives. Known as the Missione Archeologica Italiana, the excavations were overseen by the museum's then-director, Ernesto Schiaparelli—an esteemed Egyptologist and prominent Catholic philanthropist. “Mission” was one of several terms archaeologists used to identify their work in the colonial Middle East, including Egypt: the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale in Cairo originated in 1880 as the “Mission archéologique,” to take just one example (Reid 2002, 175).

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Review of Middle East Studies , Volume 51 , Issue 2 , August 2017 , pp. 221 - 227
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Copyright © Middle East Studies Association of North America, Inc. 2017 

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