Managing Egypt's Cultural Heritage: Proceedings of the First Egyptian Cultural Heritage Organisation Conference On: Egyptian Cultural Heritage Management

by Owens, L. S.; Trafford, A. De; Tassie, G. J.; Van Wetering, J.

• ISBN13: 9781906137144
• ISBN10: 1906137145
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-12-31
• Publisher: David Brown Book Co

Summary

The archaeological record is a finite resource, which is easily destroyed without proper protection. There are an incredible number of sites and monuments everywhere in Egypt, as well as the countless artifacts in museums and storerooms, requiring constant monitoring, protection and maintenance. Managing Egypt's Cultural Heritage is the first volume in a series of Cultural Heritage Management (CHM) discourses; this ground-breaking book is also the first academic collection of papers dedicated to the practice of CHM in Egypt . The papers in this volume are written by specialists in their fields whose expertise cover many areas of cultural heritage management, from the theoretical to the practical, and from tangible to intangible heritage, from cutting edge technology to simple conservation measures. The periods covered range from the Predynastic to the Coptic and Islamic periods. This volume is an invaluable addition to the library of heritage managers, conservators, archaeologists, lecturers, and anyone interested in preserving Egypt 's cultural and natural heritage. The contributors to this volume are: Carolina Cardell-Fernandez, Sabrina Carli, Aloisia De Trafford, Okasha El-Daly, Nora Ebeid, Niall P. Finneran, Tomomi Fushiya, Darren Glazier, Hany Hanna, Fekri A. Hassan, Nigel J. Hetherington, Selima Ikram, Alejandro Jimenez-Serrano, Alistair Jones, Janet Johnstone, Saleh Lamei, Javier Ordonez-Garcia, Lawrence Stuart Owens, Clifford Price, Stephen Quirke, Amanda Sutherland, Michael Seymour, Geoffrey John Tassie, and Teri L. Tucker.