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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 ...more

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	Ancient Egyptian Magic: A Hands-On Guide 3.90 avg rating — 212 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century 3.64 avg rating — 195 ratings — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ancient Egyptian Art and Architecture: A Very Short Introduction 3.60 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Egypt: Lost Civilizations 3.57 avg rating — 23 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt: Art, Identity, and Funerary Religion 3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Photographing Tutankhamun: Archaeology, Ancient Egypt, and the Archive really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Unwrapping Ancient Egypt: The Shroud, the Secret and the Sacred by Christina Riggs (2014-06-05) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Current Research In Egyptology 2000 (British Archaeological Reports by Angela McDonald, Christina Riggs (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2001	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Christina Riggs liked J.F. Duncan's review of Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century: "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 »
Mar 19, 2024 01:16AM · see review
Christina Riggs and 1 other person liked Leah's review of Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century: "An extremely humane and thoughtful work, with an exceptionally fine balance between memoir and nonfiction. "
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