Disability in Ancient Egypt and Egyptology

This book explores disability across time and space-from 'ancient Egypt' as a culture to Egyptology as a contemporary field-to go beyond simply identifying disability, encouraging readers to thoughtfully consider the history of disabled people in ancient Egypt and Egyptology.

Alexandra F. Morris is a disabled Egyptologist, lecturer, and disability activist. Her research is on disability in ancient Egypt, the Classical world, and creating inclusive museums. She holds many roles in academic, disability, heritage, and government sectors. She has cerebral palsy and dyspraxia. Hannah Vogel is an archaeologist researching ableism and disability in the ancient world and the disciplines of history and archaeology. Her research interests include disability studies, bioarchaeology, and Egyptology. She is an advocate for accessibility and has worked in museums, public outreach, and inclusive pedagogies.

Introduction; Theme One: Disability in Egyptology: Reception Studies, Museums, and Pedagogy; 1. Disability Studies: An Introduction for Egyptology - Hannah Vogel; 2. Challenging the eugenic paradigm in Egyptology - Lucas Justinian; 3.The Measure of a Man: Akhenaten, Tutankhamun, and the (Pseudo)science of Disability in Egyptology- Alexandra F. Morris and Kyle Lewis Jordan; 4. Grande Morbidezza: The Invention of Akhenaten's Illness - Steven M. Stannish; 5 Jaroslav -erný: working with disabilities in Egyptology, 1942-1970 - Hana Navratilova; 6. Overlooked but on Display: Disability and Human Remains in the British Museum- Roisin Mackie; 7. Accessibility and Disability Representation in Ancient Egyptian Exhibits: Considerations for Planning a Classroom Field Trip - Karen L. Kobylarz; Theme Two: Disability in Ancient Egypt and Nubia; 8. What was the Occupation of Disabled People in Ancient Egypt?- Samar Mostafa Kamal; 9. People with Spinal Curvatures of the Nile Valley. Presence, perception & solidarity from Nagada to the Middle Kingdom- Bénédicte Lhoyer; 10. Defining the Idealized Body: A Reexamination of Depictions of Dwarfism in Old Kingdom Art- Emily Smith-Sangster; 11. Bes or the offense of physiognomy in Egyptology- Livia Bergerot; 12. Dwarfism in Ancient Egypt/Nubia: Utilising the Bioarchaeology of Care Approach to Investigate Léri-Weill Dyschondrosteosis- Katie M. Whitmore and Michele R. Buzon; 13. Talipes cavus in Mummified Egyptian Human Remains- Michael R. Zimmerman; 14. Siptah's Leg and Other Stories- Aidan Dodson; 15. And the Children Shall Lead: Harpocrates, Harpocratis and Cerebral Palsy - Alexandra F. Morris; 16. On deafness in ancient Egyptian literary and para-literary texts - Ilaria Cariddi; 17. Impairments as Biometric Modalities in Graeco-Roman Papyri, 241 BCE-299 CE - Ella Karev; 18. Disability in the Greek papyri from Roman Egypt: a public concern? - Nicola Reggiani; 19. "Go Away Baldy": Two Cross-Cultural Tales of Baldness - Rosalind Janssen; 20. Archaeology of genital mutilation: Disabled masculinity of Libyan enemies in the Egyptian New Kingdom - Uroš Mati-; 21. DisAbility, Eunuchs and the Lived Experience in Ptolemaic-Roman Egypt - Sonia R Zakrzewski, Stephanie Evelyn-Wright and Scott Haddow.