William Carruthers is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of East Anglia. He is the editor of Histories of Egyptology.

[H]is refreshingly critical approach to the subject will undoubtedly transform our understanding of the UNESCO Campaign, beyond a Western Egyptological lens.(Egyptian Archaeology) Today, as one witnesses the violence being inflicted upon modern-day Cairo (also under the guise of the state's modernization and developmental projects), with certain histories deemed insignificant and cursorily erased and others being cheaply promoted with pomp (e.g., the mummy parade; the sphinx avenue celebrations), Flooded Pasts could not be a more timely contribution.(The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology) Carruthers has delivered an epic, encyclopaedic volume that at once speaks to the discipline of archaeology and global development agendas. This book is a powerful and commendable addition to the literature on African studies,(Research Africa Reviews) As someone who is interested in site histories, I believe that this is the book that all others should be based on from now on. But it is so much more than a site history. It is cultural, archival, disciplinary, and political history.(H-Net) In Flooded Pasts, William Carruthers traces a history of archeology in Nubia in relation to these connected histories of colonialism, hydrology and global heritage in Egypt and Sudan. What emerges is a powerful account of how control over the past was often central to competing visions of potential futures, and how apparently new regimes often found themselves reproducing patterns of thought and practice they claimed to have surpassed. This is an important book and reflects hours of considered and fascinating research.(Journal of Museum Ethnography) Flooded Pasts is an extremely well-grounded case study of how post-colonial politics in Africa, through its entanglements with archaeology, ended up reproducing colonial mindsets and the oppression of local communities. I strongly recommend it to people who are interested in building bridges between post-colonial histories (of the ancient past or the disciplines that make it) with decolonial action in the present.(Sudan Studies) Rich in detail and carefully argued, Flooded Pasts' multifaceted exploration of the Nubia campaign makes an important contribution to understanding the structural imbrications of knowledge production, colonialism, and nation-building in the Middle East and North Africa... a timely contribution to community-engaged archaeology as a decolonizing praxis.(International Journal of Middle East Studies)

• Introduction: Flooding Nubia1. The View from the Boat2. Documenting Nubia3. Valuing Egyptian Nubia4. Making Sudan Archaeological5. Peopling Nubia6. Nubia in the (Non-Aligned) World7. Traces of NubiaConclusion: Repeopling Nubia

William Carruthers is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of East Anglia. He is the editor of Histories of Egyptology.

[H]is refreshingly critical approach to the subject will undoubtedly transform our understanding of the UNESCO Campaign, beyond a Western Egyptological lens.(Egyptian Archaeology) Today, as one witnesses the violence being inflicted upon modern-day Cairo (also under the guise of the state's modernization and developmental projects), with certain histories deemed insignificant and cursorily erased and others being cheaply promoted with pomp (e.g., the mummy parade; the sphinx avenue celebrations), Flooded Pasts could not be a more timely contribution.(The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology) Carruthers has delivered an epic, encyclopaedic volume that at once speaks to the discipline of archaeology and global development agendas. This book is a powerful and commendable addition to the literature on African studies,(Research Africa Reviews) As someone who is interested in site histories, I believe that this is the book that all others should be based on from now on. But it is so much more than a site history. It is cultural, archival, disciplinary, and political history.(H-Net) In Flooded Pasts, William Carruthers traces a history of archeology in Nubia in relation to these connected histories of colonialism, hydrology and global heritage in Egypt and Sudan. What emerges is a powerful account of how control over the past was often central to competing visions of potential futures, and how apparently new regimes often found themselves reproducing patterns of thought and practice they claimed to have surpassed. This is an important book and reflects hours of considered and fascinating research.(Journal of Museum Ethnography) Flooded Pasts is an extremely well-grounded case study of how post-colonial politics in Africa, through its entanglements with archaeology, ended up reproducing colonial mindsets and the oppression of local communities. I strongly recommend it to people who are interested in building bridges between post-colonial histories (of the ancient past or the disciplines that make it) with decolonial action in the present.(Sudan Studies) Rich in detail and carefully argued, Flooded Pasts' multifaceted exploration of the Nubia campaign makes an important contribution to understanding the structural imbrications of knowledge production, colonialism, and nation-building in the Middle East and North Africa... a timely contribution to community-engaged archaeology as a decolonizing praxis.(International Journal of Middle East Studies)

• Introduction: Flooding Nubia1. The View from the Boat2. Documenting Nubia3. Valuing Egyptian Nubia4. Making Sudan Archaeological5. Peopling Nubia6. Nubia in the (Non-Aligned) World7. Traces of NubiaConclusion: Repeopling Nubia

William Carruthers is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of East Anglia. He is the editor of Histories of Egyptology.

[H]is refreshingly critical approach to the subject will undoubtedly transform our understanding of the UNESCO Campaign, beyond a Western Egyptological lens.(Egyptian Archaeology) Today, as one witnesses the violence being inflicted upon modern-day Cairo (also under the guise of the state's modernization and developmental projects), with certain histories deemed insignificant and cursorily erased and others being cheaply promoted with pomp (e.g., the mummy parade; the sphinx avenue celebrations), Flooded Pasts could not be a more timely contribution.(The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology) Carruthers has delivered an epic, encyclopaedic volume that at once speaks to the discipline of archaeology and global development agendas. This book is a powerful and commendable addition to the literature on African studies,(Research Africa Reviews) As someone who is interested in site histories, I believe that this is the book that all others should be based on from now on. But it is so much more than a site history. It is cultural, archival, disciplinary, and political history.(H-Net) In Flooded Pasts, William Carruthers traces a history of archeology in Nubia in relation to these connected histories of colonialism, hydrology and global heritage in Egypt and Sudan. What emerges is a powerful account of how control over the past was often central to competing visions of potential futures, and how apparently new regimes often found themselves reproducing patterns of thought and practice they claimed to have surpassed. This is an important book and reflects hours of considered and fascinating research.(Journal of Museum Ethnography) Flooded Pasts is an extremely well-grounded case study of how post-colonial politics in Africa, through its entanglements with archaeology, ended up reproducing colonial mindsets and the oppression of local communities. I strongly recommend it to people who are interested in building bridges between post-colonial histories (of the ancient past or the disciplines that make it) with decolonial action in the present.(Sudan Studies) Rich in detail and carefully argued, Flooded Pasts' multifaceted exploration of the Nubia campaign makes an important contribution to understanding the structural imbrications of knowledge production, colonialism, and nation-building in the Middle East and North Africa... a timely contribution to community-engaged archaeology as a decolonizing praxis.(International Journal of Middle East Studies)

• Introduction: Flooding Nubia1. The View from the Boat2. Documenting Nubia3. Valuing Egyptian Nubia4. Making Sudan Archaeological5. Peopling Nubia6. Nubia in the (Non-Aligned) World7. Traces of NubiaConclusion: Repeopling Nubia