The "Berlin Stele." A family portrait of Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and their daughters, 18 th Dynasty (Neues Museum, Berlin).

The "Berlin Stele." A family portrait of Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and their daughters, 18 th Dynasty (Neues Museum, Berlin).

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The following article analyses the ways in which the developing field of Egyptology found its way into Victorian culture, more especially via the romances of H. Rider Haggard. It considers the process of acculturation in terms of the Christianizing tendency of a biblical archaeology which was looking for evidence of biblical narratives in oppositio...

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... Haggard had a bookplate and letterhead created for him by the Egyptologist the Revd. W. J. Loftie in March 1888 (Higgins, Rider Haggard 128) in which his home is referenced in an Egyptian context (see Figure 2). The hieroglyphs translate as follows (Addy, Rider Haggard and Egypt vi): ...