'Where stones remained silent, plants spoke': practising historical biogeography in 19th-century Egypt

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• Anna Simon-Stickley (Max Planck Institute)
• Monday 28 October 2024, 13:00-14:00
• Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

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How do you write history using plants? And why? This talk will look at how scholars in 19th-century Egypt collected, explored, and understood the various traces that plants had left in Egypt’s history. Egyptologists such as Ahmed Kamal and Flinders Petrie plucked ancient plants from 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 civilization did not remain between book covers and inside lecture halls.

This talk is part of the Cabinet of Natural History series.

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