This path was created by Emilia Porubcin.
The People
This page illustrates the interconnected network of identified individuals who created the collection featured in Our Dark Materials.
We made the surprising discovery that our modest Egyptian collection was connected to some of the most important people and places of the “golden age” of Egyptology: a period from the 1880s through 1910s in which foreign and Egyptian laborers, scholars, tourists, and expatriates established our contemporary understanding of ancient Egypt.