Early travellers’ contributions to the first reconstructions of Egyptian history

A lecture by Prof. Aidan Dodson

Until the early 19th century, the only available sources of information on ancient Egyptian history were the works of the Classical writers and the Bible. However, in parallel with the first decipherment of hieroglyphs, travellers in Egypt discovered and recorded a number of key monuments that meant that by 1830 one of them, Sir John Gardner Wilkinson, was able to put together a substantial king-list based on wholly-Egyptian sources. Today we follow these discoveries and further ones that meant by the 1850s a solid provisional history had come into being – albeit subject to many corrections over the coming decades.

Aidan Mark Dodson is an Egyptologist and historian. He is an Honorary Professor of Egyptology at the University of Bristol and an editor of A History of World Egyptology (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

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