WLE turns 80 this year and hidden gems continue to be discovered in the #BKMLibrary stacks. One exam

WLE turns 80 this year and hidden gems continue to be discovered in the #BKMLibrary stacks. One example includes a rare manuscript from scholar and explorer Amelia B. Edwards.  Edwards was one of the most prominent Egyptologists of her time – a respected scholar and expert in her field in an era when the emerging disciplines of Archaeology and Egyptology were dominated by men. She was also a writer of fiction and non-fiction, and an intrepid world traveler. Her tour of Egypt is accounted in her classic book A Thousand Miles up the Nile.Edwards also co-founded the still-active Egypt Exploration Fund (now Egypt Exploration Society). Amazingly, Edwards’ handwritten notes for a lecture in Brooklyn on Egyptian topics were recently found living in a quiet corner of the Library’s special collections. How this came to rest on our shelves is still unknown –Edwards had close ties to the first curator of Fine and Ancient Art, Professor William H. Goodyear. The community of Egyptology enthusiasts and scholars was small and close-knit in those days and Edwards no doubt also knew our founder, Charles Edwin Wilbour. However it came to be, this precious one-of-a-kind manuscript is now in our care and custody. In the future, it will be digitally available to curious and the scholarly alike – kindred spirits to Amelia, the Queen of Egyptology!Posted by Roberta Munoz -- source link
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