Abstract:This article argues that forms of civility governing who possessed the credibility to carry out archaeological fieldwork altered in Egypt during the post-World War II era of decolonization. Incorporating Arabic sources, the article focuses on the preparation of a dig house used during an excavation run by the Egyptian Department of Antiquities and the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania at the site of Mit Rahina, Egypt, in the mid-1950s. The study demonstrates how the colonial genealogies of su… Show more
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