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Kara Cooney

Born

in Houston, The United States

March 08, 1972

Website

http://karacooney.squarespace.com/

Genre

Nonfiction, History

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Dr. Kathlyn M. Cooney aka Dr. Kara Cooney is an Egyptologist and Assistant Professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture at UCLA. She was awarded a PhD in 2002 by Johns Hopkins University for Near Eastern Studies. She was part of an archaeological team excavating at the artisans' village of Deir el Medina in Egypt, as well as Dahshur and various tombs at Thebes.

In 2002 she was Kress Fellow at the National Gallery of Art and worked on the preparation of the Cairo Museum exhibition Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt. She was a member of the teaching staff at Stanford and Howard University. In 2005, she acted as fellow curator for Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Raised in Hous ...more

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Average rating: 3.68 · 6,804 ratings · 1,125 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt 3.67 avg rating — 4,574 ratings — published 2014 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt 3.71 avg rating — 2,226 ratings — published 2018 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Powerful Women Who Ruled the Ancient World 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Male leaders are celebrated for their successes, while their excesses are typically excused as the necessary and expected price of masculine ambition.”
― Kara Cooney, The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt

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“In a world where seasons of planting harvests and inundation ruled life and death, it was imperative to bring the gods into daily life to help things along. The more a king invested in festivals of cyclical renewal, the more prosperity the gods bestowed. But if the gods were ignored, bad floods would result, and that meant meager planting and poor harvest, which led in turn to drought, pestilence, disease and death.”
― Kara Cooney, The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt

tags: festivals, gods, prosperity, renewal

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“a culture so beautiful—with its golden masks and colossal statues, gods with crocodile heads, and hieroglyphs of whimsical complexity”
― Kara Cooney, When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt

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