在古埃及，将包括木乃伊尸体在内的神圣物品层层包裹在布中是埃及社会的一项核心仪式。然而在现代世界，人们的注意力却集中在解开埃及人精心安排的亚麻纺织品上。
这本书通过研究古埃及纺织包装的重要性，以及它们的拆开方式塑造了我们对埃及历史的思考方式，开辟了新的领域。用亚麻布包裹木乃伊尸体和神像反映了这种纺织品的文化价值，对理解埃及社会的性别、物质性和等级制度有着重要意义。拆开木乃伊和雕像同样反映了西方对埃及文物的重视，在西方，考古学、埃及学和种族科学的殖民遗产仍然影响着埃及在博物馆和媒体上的形象。
从图坦卡蒙墓到阿拉伯之春，
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Unwrapping Ancient Egypt: The Shroud, the Secret and the Sacred
In ancient Egypt, wrapping sacred objects, including mummified bodies, in layers of cloth was a ritual that lay at the core of Egyptian society. Yet in the modern world, attention has focused instead on unwrapping all the careful arrangements of linen textiles the Egyptians had put in place.
This book breaks new ground by looking at the significance of textile wrappings in ancient Egypt, and at the way their unwrapping has shaped the way we think about the Egyptian past. Wrapping mummified bodies and divine statues in linen reflected the cultural values attached to this textile, with implications for understanding gender, materiality and hierarchy in Egyptian society. Unwrapping mummies and statues similarly reflects the values attached to Egyptian antiquities in the West, where the colonial legacies of archaeology, Egyptology and racial science still influence how Egypt appears in museums and the press.
From the tomb of Tutankhamun to the Arab Spring,
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