Many years ago, I trained and worked in archaeology, including in Egypt. I spent large parts of 2005 to 2008 in the country, where I also studied Arabic. I became interested in how contemporary archaeological and heritage practices there—at the time dominated b..
William Carruthers
William Carruthers is a historian and heritage specialist and Honorary Lecturer in the Department of Art History and World Art Studies at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology (Cornell University Press, 2022) and the editor of Histories of Egyptology: Interdisciplinary Measures (Routledge, 2014). He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, and has held fellowships from, amongst others, the AHRC, Gerda Henkel Stiftung, and the Leverhulme Trust.