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Christina Riggs

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Christina Riggs is Professor of the History of Visual Culture at Durham University in the northeast of England. Her most recent book is Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century (2021), an 'utterly original' account which Kirkus Reviews has described as 'an imaginative weaving of the personal and political into a fresh narrative of an archaeological icon.'

Riggs is a former museum curator who studied art history, archaeology, and Egyptology in her native United States before moving to the UK to complete her doctorate at Oxford University. She has held a number of prestigious fellowships, and her writing has appeared in Apollo, History Today, the Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books, and Italia magazine, the last reflecting
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Ancient Egyptian Magic: A H...

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Treasured: How Tutankhamun ...

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Ancient Egyptian Art and Ar...

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Egypt: Lost Civilizations

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The Beautiful Burial in Rom...

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The Oxford Handbook of Roma...

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Photographing Tutankhamun: ...

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"I'll be honest: it was just that cover that initially drew me in. That famous and beautiful eye is unmistakably familiar and choosing it as the cover of this book was genius: it turns out that there's much more than meets the eye to this cultural ico" Read more of this review »
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"An extremely humane and thoughtful work, with an exceptionally fine balance between memoir and nonfiction. "
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