The Egyptian Artifacts of a Little-Known, Victorian-Era Woman Collector

Quartzite fragment with the hieroglyphic name of the sun god Aten, from a statue of Akhenaten or Nefertiti (ca 1350 BCE), picked up by Anne Goodison at Akhenaten’s city of Tell el-Amarna in January 1891 (all photos courtesy Atkinson Art Gallery and Library) For Victorian women with access to education and […]

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