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SUMMARY:'Where stones remained silent\, plants spoke': practising historic
 al biogeography in 19th-century Egypt - Anna Simon-Stickley (Max Planck In
 stitute)
DTSTART:20241028T130000Z
DTEND:20241028T140000Z
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DESCRIPTION:How do you write history using plants? And why? This talk will
  look at how scholars in 19th-century Egypt collected\, explored\, and und
 erstood the various traces that plants had left in Egypt's history. Egypto
 logists such as Ahmed Kamal and Flinders Petrie plucked ancient plants fro
 m tombs and collected plant names\, while botanists traced the geographic 
 origins of various Egyptian plants and scoured ancient gardens for remnant
  vegetation. Taking into consideration Egypt's changing agriculture\, this
  talk will also explore how exploring the links between agriculture and ci
 vilization did not remain between book covers and inside lecture halls.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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