A history of Physical Education and Sport.

Product Description: The Life of Margaret Alice Murray: A Woman’s Work in Archaeology is the first book-length biography of Margaret Alice Murray (1863–1963), one of the first women to practice archeology. Despite Murray’s numerous professional successes, her career has received little attention because she has been overshadowed by her mentor, Sir Flinders Petrie...read more

Product Description: Grafton Elliot Smith rose from a colonial Australian background to dizzying heights in the British scientific establishment. He became a world authority on neuroanatomy and human prehistory, and was best known publicly for his challenging theory of cultural diffusion - crossing the boundaries of anthropology, archaeology, and history - stemming from his expert knowledge of evolution...read more

Howard Carter ad arrived in Egypt as a 17-year old 'tracer' with rudimentary education, and progressed to become the first Chief Inspector of Antiquities in Upper Egypt. An improbable but auspicious partnership with the 5th Earl of Carnarvon developed in which the young Carter acted as assistant. This title presents his biography.

A history of Physical Education and Sport.

Product Description: This, the first biography of Amelia Edwards, sets out her work as the founder of the Egypt Exploration Society and writer of A Thousand Miles up the Nile in the context of her previous career as novelist and journalist. It traces her development from a multi-gifted child to an adventurous and unconventional woman and finally to her life as a dedicated and reclusive worker in the cause of exploring and safeguarding the antiquities of Egypt...read more

Product Description: Flinders Petrie has been called the "Father of Modern Egyptology" - and indeed he is one of the pioneers of modern archeological methods. Here Margaret S. Drower, a student of Petrie's in the early 1930s, traces his life from his boyhood, when he was already a budding scholar, through his stunning career in the deserts of Egypt to his death in Jerusalem at the age of 89...read more

Product Description: The early death of Egyptologist Arthur C. Mace in 1928 was linked to the popular, but fabricated, curse of Tutankhamun. Using family archives, this book traces the contribution made by Mace to the Tutankhamun expedition and describes the daily life among the community of archaeologists...read more