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Kara Cooney

Born

in Houston, Texas, The United States

March 08, 1972

Genre

Nonfiction, History, Egyptology

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Dr. Kathlyn M. Cooney, aka Dr. Kara Cooney, is an Egyptologist and Assistant Professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture at UCLA. She was awarded a PhD in 2002 by Johns Hopkins University for Near Eastern Studies. She was part of an archaeological team excavating at the artisans' village of Deir el Medina in Egypt, as well as Dahshur and various tombs at Thebes.

In 2002 she was Kress Fellow at the National Gallery of Art and worked on the preparation of the Cairo Museum exhibition Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt. She was a member of the teaching staff at Stanford and Howard University. In 2005, she acted as fellow curator for Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Raised in Ho ...more

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Average rating: 3.67 · 17,969 ratings · 2,507 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt 3.68 avg rating — 9,086 ratings — published 2018 — 12 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 Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt 3.66 avg rating — 7,743 ratings — published 2014 — 16 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
	Powerful Women Who Ruled the Ancient World 4.08 avg rating — 636 ratings — published 2020	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 Good Kings: Absolute Power in Ancient Egypt and the Modern World 3.35 avg rating — 474 ratings — published 2021 — 7 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 Female Rulers: Women Who Ruled the World (3500 Years Ago) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 25 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
	Recycling for Death: Coffin Reuse in Ancient Egypt and the Theban Royal Caches it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2024 — 2 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 Afterlives of Egyptian History: Reuse and Reformulation of Objects, Places, and Texts by Yekaterina Barbash (editor), Kara Cooney (Contributor), Kathy Zurek-Doule (Contributor) 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 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
	When Women Speak. by Unknown Author, Kara Cooney 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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“Male leaders are celebrated for their successes, while their excesses are typically excused as the necessary and expected price of masculine ambition.”
― Kara Cooney, The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt

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“Hatshepsut was, as far as we can tell, not a seducer of great generals in charge of legions, for the practical reason that there existed no men greater than she.”
― Kara Cooney, The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt

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“In a world where seasons of planting harvests and inundation ruled life and death, it was imperative to bring the gods into daily life to help things along. The more a king invested in festivals of cyclical renewal, the more prosperity the gods bestowed. But if the gods were ignored, bad floods would result, and that meant meager planting and poor harvest, which led in turn to drought, pestilence, disease and death.”
― Kara Cooney, The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt

tags: festivals, gods, prosperity, renewal

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Mayflower

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Will in the World

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Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England

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