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Archaeology and photography (2020)
Book Chapter
Riggs, C. (2020). Archaeology and photography. In G. Pasternak (Ed.), The Handbook of Photography Studies. Bloomsbury

Egypt (2017)
Book
Riggs, C. (2017). Egypt. Reaktion Books; University of Chicago Press

Shouldering the past: Photography, archaeology, and collective effort at the tomb of Tutankhamun (2016)
Journal Article
Riggs, C. (2017). Shouldering the past: Photography, archaeology, and collective effort at the tomb of Tutankhamun. History of Science, 55(3), 336-363. https://doi.org/10.1177/0073275316676282

Photographing archaeological labor was routine on Egyptian and other Middle Eastern sites during the colonial period and interwar years. Yet why and how such photographs were taken is rarely discussed in literature concerned with the history of archa... Read More about Shouldering the past: Photography, archaeology, and collective effort at the tomb of Tutankhamun.

Photography and antiquity in the archive, or how Howard Carter moved the road to the Valley of the Kings (2016)
Journal Article
Riggs, C. (2016). Photography and antiquity in the archive, or how Howard Carter moved the road to the Valley of the Kings. History of Photography, 40(3), 267-282. https://doi.org/10.1080/03087298.2016.1140325

A single glass plate negative formerly in the collection of Howard Carter (most famously the excavator of Tutankhamun’s tomb) and now in the archives of the Griffith Institute, Oxford University raises a number of questions about photography, archaeo... Read More about Photography and antiquity in the archive, or how Howard Carter moved the road to the Valley of the Kings.

Discussing knowledge in the making (2015)
Book Chapter
Riggs, C. (2015). Discussing knowledge in the making. In W. Carruthers (Ed.), Histories of Egyptology: Interdisciplinary Measures (129-38). Routledge