Selected Speakers

Dr. Barry John Kemp
Professor Barry Kemp is Emeritus Professor of Egyptology at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.
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Dr. Bob Brier
Bob Brier, Egyptologist and Author
Affectionately known as Mr. Mummy, Dr. Bob Brier is recognized as one of the world's foremost experts on mummies and Egyptology.
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Dr. Kara Cooney
Dr. Kathlyn (Kara) Cooney is a radical & revolutionary professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture at UCLA. Specializing in craft production, coffin studies, and economies in the ancient world, Cooney received her PhD in Egyptology from Johns Hopkins University.
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Dr. Aidan Dodson
Aidan Mark Dodson (born 1962) is an English Egyptologist and historian. He has been honorary professor of Egyptology at the University of Bristol since 1 August 2018.
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Matthew Douglas Adams
Matthew Adams is a Senior Research Scholar at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where he has directed archaeology at north Abydos since 1999.
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Dr. David Silverman
David P. Silverman is an American archaeologist and Egyptologist. He received an undergraduate degree from Rutgers University where he majored in art history.
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Betsy Bryan
Betsy Morrell Bryan (born 1949) is an American Egyptologist who is leading a team that is excavating the Precinct of Mut complex in Karnak, at Luxor in Upper Egypt.
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John Romer
JOHN ROMER has worked in Egypt since 1966 on archaeological digs in many key sites, including the Valley of the King and Karnak. He led the Brooklyn Museum expedition to excavate the tomb of Ramasses XI.
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Guy de la Bedoyere
Guy de la Bedoyere has written extensively on the ancient world over the last thirty years, most recently Gladius: Living, Fighting and Dying in the Roman Army (which was described by the Sunday Times as 'highly enjoyable') and Pharaohs of the Sun.
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Solange Ashby
Solange Ashby is an Africanist and archaeologist whose expertise focuses on language, religion and the role of women in ancient Egypt and Nubia. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures U.C.L.A.
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Chris Naughton
Dr Naunton is an Egyptologist and author of Searching for the Lost Tombs of Egypt (Thames & Hudson, 2018) and Egyptologists’ Notebooks (T&H, 2020).
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Archaeology Discovery Weekend 2022
Welcome to the Center for Near Eastern Archaeology's 14th annual Archaeology Discovery Weekend! This year's event focuses on "Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt: Glory, Grit, and Grandeur."
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Peter Der Manuelian
Peter Der Manuelian is the Barbara Bell Professor of Egyptology and holds a joint appointment in the Anthropology Department and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.
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Nadine Moeller
Nadine Moeller is Associate Professor of Egyptian Archaeology at the Oriental Institute,
University of Chicago. She has been directing excavations at the urban settlement of Tell
Edfu in Egypt since 2001.
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Jan Assmann
Johann Christoph "Jan" Assmann (born July 7, 1938) is a German Egyptologist.
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David & Jill Pepper
David Pepper & Jill Taylor-Pepper are a husband & wife team with a lifelong interest in Ancient Egypt. They have visited the land of the pharaohs numerous times and first met as volunteers at the 1987 Rameses II exhibit at the Denver Museum of Natural History.
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Dr. Peter J. Brand
Professor of Egyptology and ancient history at the University of Memphis. Director, Karnak Hypostyle Hall Project.
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Dr. Briana Jackson
Briana Jackson holds a PhD in Egyptian art and archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Currently, she holds a position as a Digital Humanities Research Fellow at the American Research Center in Egypt.
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Dr. Josef Wegner
Josef Wegner, C'89, GR'96 received his B.A. in 1989 and his Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania) in 1996 on the topic of the development of the Osiris cult at Abydos during the Middle Kingdom.
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Dr. Stephen Harvey
Professor Harvey specializes in Egyptian archaeology, narrative in ancient art, ancient warfare, pyramid construction, ancient religious institutions, and sacred landscapes. He is the director of the Ahmose and Tetisheri Project in Abydos, Egypt.
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Penelope Wilson
I am an Egyptologist with interests in Egyptian settlement archaeology, especially in the Delta, and in ritual and belief systems, as well as Ptolemaic and Roman temples.
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Dominic Perry
Dominic lives in Auckland, New Zealand, where he studied Ancient History at The University of Auckland. His Master Thesis focussed on Egyptian economics of the Old Kingdom, urbanism and socio-economics in the New Kingdom.
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Dr. Salima Ikram
Salima Ikram is a Distinguished University Professor of Egyptology at The American University in Cairo and has worked as an archaeologist in Turkey, Sudan, Greece and the United States.
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Doctor Joann Fletcher
Joann Fletcher (born 30 August 1966) is an Egyptologist and an honorary visiting professor in the department of archaeology at the University of York.
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Dr. Anne Austin
Dr. Anne Austin. UMSL assistant professor studying ancient tattoos, osteology, Egyptian medicine.
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Jacquelyn Williamson
Dr. Jacquelyn Williamson comes to Mason from Harvard, where she served for two years as a Curatorial Research Associate at the Harvard Semitic Museum. She received her BA from Sarah Lawrence and her MA and PhD from Johns Hopkins.
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Curtis Ryan Woodside
Curtis Ryan Woodside has been interested in Ancient Egypt since the age of six. Having visited Egypt several times, he has produced and hosted 26 Egyptology Documentaries, and published 2 photography books.
Curtis, is a research Egyptologist.
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Elizabeth Frood
Elizabeth Frood is Associate Professor of Egyptology and Fellow of St Cross College, University of Oxford, UK. She is author of Biographical Texts from Ramessid Egypt (2007).
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Miroslav Bárta
Miroslav Bárta specializes in the archaeology of third millennium BC Egypt and is also interested in the comparative study of civilizations. He leads multidisciplinary projects in Abusir & Usli (Sudan).
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Uroš Matić
Archaeologist with specialization in Egyptian archaeology, settlement archaeology and gender studies, project manager (IPMA, Level D)
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Dr. Emily Teeter
Emily Teeter received her PhD in Egyptology from the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Her areas of specialization are the religion, social history, and the material culture of ancient Egypt.
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David Wengrow
David Wengrow is a Professor of Comparative Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London
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Dr. Gregory Marouard
Gregory Marouard is Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC) and a Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale University.
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W. Raymond Johnson
Egypt. W. Raymond Johnson is the director of Epigraphic Survey Chicago House, Luxor, Egypt
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Willeke Wendrich
Willeke Wendrich is Professor of Egyptian Archaeology with the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA.
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Rita Lucarelli
Rita Lucarelli is an Associate Professor of Egyptology in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She studied at the University of Naples “L’Orientale,” Italy, where she received her MA degree in Classical Languages and Egyptology.
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Richard B. Parkinson
Richard B. Parkinson
Richard Bruce Parkinson (born 25 May 1963) is a British Egyptologist and academic. He is Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford and a fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford.
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Dr Laurence Shafe
Hello, I’m Laurence Shafe, and I invite you to embark on a journey through the fascinating intersection of artificial intelligence and art history.
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Ilona Regulski
Ilona Regulski is Curator of the exhibition Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt and Curator of Egyptian Written Culture at the British Museum.
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Julia Troche
Julia Troche is an Egyptologist and Assistant Professor of History at Missouri State University.
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Ramadan B. Hussein
Hussein was born in Cairo in December 1971. We studied Egyptology together at the Department of Egyptology at the Faculty of Archaeology at Cairo University from 1990 to 1944.
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Yasmin El Shazly
Dr. Yasmin El Shazly is Deputy Director for Research and Programs at the American Research Center in Egypt.
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Dr. Paul Harrison
Dr. Harrison began his tenure as an archeologist at University College London's Institue of Archeology. Where he earned an MA, as well as a PhD in Egyptian Archeology.
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Prof. Stan Hendrickx
Stan Hendrickx was professor of art history at the University of Hasselt / PXL-MAD. A world-renowned specialist in the pre-Pharaonic period in Egypt.
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Maria Gatto
Dr Gatto is an Honorary Visiting Fellow at the School of Archaeology and Ancient History of University of Leicester.
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Prof. Cédric Gobeil
Dr Cédric Gobeil received his PhD in Egyptology at the University of Paris-Sorbonne in 2008 and has been Director of the French archaeological mission at Deir el-Medina between 2011 and 2016.
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Alice Stevenson
Alice is Professor of Museum Archaeology at the UCL Institute of Archaeology.
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Karen Armstrong
Karen Armstrong, a comparative religion specialist is the author of numerous books on religion, including The Case for God, A History of God, The Battle for God, Holy War, Islam, Buddha, and Fields of Blood, as well as a memoir, The Spiral Staircase.
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Hannah Male
Hanne Male is an Aspiring Egyptologist
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Prof. Verena Lepper
Verena Lepper has been at the Staatliche Museen since 2008, her research topics including Egyptian and Oriental papyri, literary and cultural history, scientific and art history.
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Karen (Maggie) Bryson
I am an Egyptologist and historian, with skills in analysis, communication, and collaboration developed over more than a decade of international experience.
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Prof. Dr. Jean Revez
Jean Revez is a professor of Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Near-Eastern history and languages at the Université du Québec à Montréal.
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Foy Scalf
Foy Scalf studied Egyptology at the University of Chicago where he wrote a dissertation on a corpus of Demotic funerary papyri dating from 1st-2nd century CE Egypt.
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Professor Roger Bagnall
Roger Bagnall taught at Columbia University for 33 years before becoming the founding director of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. His work includes publications of many papyri, ostraka, and inscriptions.
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Robert K. Ritner Jr.
Prof. Robert K. Ritner Jr. is remembered not only for his immense impact on the study of ancient Egyptian religion, magic and culture, but also for his ability to make complex topics accessible.
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Dr. Monica Hanna
Dr. Monica Hanna is an international figure in the world of Archaeology. She did her undergraduate studies in Egyptology and Archaeological Chemistry at the American University in Cairo (AUC), 2004.
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Prof. Neal Spencer
Dr. Neal Spencer is Deputy Director at the Fitzwilliam Museum, where he leads on curatorial and research strategy, collections management.
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Dr. Melinda Hartwig
Melinda Hartwig is an Egyptologist and art historian. She is the curator of ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern art at the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University.
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David O’Connor
David Bourke O’Connor, a former professor of ancient Egyptian history and archaeology and former curator of the Egyptian collection of the Penn Museum, passed away on October 1. 2022 in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania after a long illness. He was 84.
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Dr. Garry J. Shaw
Dr. Garry J. Shaw studied archaeology and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool. He has taught Egyptology at the American University in Cairo, the University of Liverpool, the Egypt Exploration Society.
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Christine Lilyquist
Dr. Christine Lilyquist is a pioneering curator who transformed the way Egyptological collections are exhibited to the public, created the first blockbuster exhibition, the Treasures of Tutankhamun as well as conducted important archeological fieldwork and material culture studies.
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Dr. Donald Redford
Donald B. Redford is a professor of classics and ancient Mediterranean studies at the Pennsylvania State University.
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Prof. John Weeks
Kent Weeks is an Egyptologist, a Connecticut based archaeologist who studies the culture and artifacts of ancient Egyptian civilization. Dr. Weeks' work on the Theban Mapping Project has been some of the most influential work in Egyptology.
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Vanessa Davies
I am an Egyptologist. My current research focuses on the early 20th century, when Egyptology was just beginning to be taught in universities in the US.
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Mariam Ayad
Mariam Ayad is Associate Professor of Egyptology at The American University in Cairo. She is the author of God’s Wife, God’s Servant: The God's Wife of Amun (ca.740–525 BC) (Routledge, 2009).
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Christian de Vartavan
Christian Tutundjian de Vartavan studies Egyptian Science, Ancient Egyptian Language and Plant World, and Hieroglyphics.
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Richard Parkinson
Professor Richard Parkinson is Professor of Egyptology in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, Director of the Griffith Institute and Fellow of The Queen’s College
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Dr. Christiana Köhler
Univ.-Prof. Dr. E. Christiana Köhler
Institute for Egyptology, University of Vienna
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Dr. Brenda Baker
Brenda J. Baker
Brenda J. Baker is a professor of anthropology in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, a core faculty member of the Center for Bioarchaeological Research and curator of the ancient Nubian collections housed at ASU.
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Shayla Monroe
Shayla Monroe received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), in 2021.
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Laurel Bestock
Laurel Bestock
Laurel Bestock is an Associate Professor of Archaeology and Egyptology at Brown University (USA).
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Brian Smith
Brian Smith has degrees in anthropology and archaeology from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville and has excavated in India, Thailand, and Egypt .
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Professor Dimitri Laboury
Professor Dimitri Laboury
Trained as an Egyptologist and an Art Historian, Laboury specialized in the study of Ancient Egyptian thought and cultural history through the art of that civilization.
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Meredith Brand
Meredith Brand
Meredith Brand is an archaeologist and writer in the Rhetoric and Composition Department at AUC where she teaches research and academic writing.
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Dr Anna Stevens
Dr. Anna Stevens
Anna is an archaeologist, specialising in ancient Egypt, with research interests that include urbanism in the ancient world, lived religion, cultural interaction and the archaeology of cult.
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Kate Liszka
Dr. Kate Liszka is the Benson and Pamela Harer Fellow in Egyptology and Professor of History at California State University San Bernardino.
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Antonio J. Morales
Antonio J. Morales
Antonio Morales is Associate Professor of Egyptology at the Seminar of Ancient History in the University of Alcalá (UAH, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid) and the Director of the Middle Kingdom Theban Project.
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Shayla Monroe
Shayla Monroe received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), in 2021.
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Michele Buzon
Dr. Michele R. Buzon
Dr. Buzon’s work focuses on burial archaeology in the Nile Valley (ancient Nubia and Egypt). Using mortuary and skeletal data she explores the consequences of contact between populations.
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Marc Gabolde
Marc Gabolde (born 30 May 1957 in Nantes) is a French Egyptologist, specialist of the Eighteenth Dynasty and the Amarna period.
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Stephen Quirke
Stephen Quirke
Stephen Quirke studied Egyptology at the University of Cambridge from 1980 to 1987, taking as the theme for his doctoral thesis issues of kingship and administration in Egypt during the late Middle Kingdom (about 1850-1700 BC).
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Janice Kamrin
Janice Kamrin holds a BA from Bryn Mawr College and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include Middle Kingdom tomb art, the archaeology of Thebes, and the funerary arts of the first millennium.
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Rosalind Janssen
Rosalind Janssen
Rosalind Janssen’s career was spent at UCL: firstly as a curator of the Petrie Museum, and then as a Lecturer in Egyptology at the Institute of Archaeology. She currently teaches Egyptology at the OUDCE and the City Lit in London.
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Danielle Candelora
Danielle Candelora
Danielle Candelora is Assistant Professor of Ancient Mediterranean History at SUNY Cortland and co-director of excavations at South Karnak. She received her PhD in Egyptology from UCLA.
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Jordan Galczynski
Jordan Galczynski
Jordan is a Ph.D. candidate specializing in ancient Egyptian material culture. Her research focuses on using an intersectional approach to better understand both elite identity but also marginalized groups– women, immigrants, lower status people.
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Margaret Geoga
Margaret Geoga
Maggie’s research interests include ancient Egyptian literature, scribal culture, reception studies, literary theory, and modern receptions of ancient Egypt.
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Rita Freed
Rita Freed
Rita Freed is an American educator and egyptologist. She is the curator of the department of ancient Egyptian, Nubian and Near Eastern Art at the Museum of Fine Arts.
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Sir Flinders Petrie
Sir Flinders Petrie
Sir Flinders Petrie (1853–1942) is one of the most important and influential figures in the history of Egyptology, an archaeologist whose sixty years in the field produced an enormous amount of archaeological evidence for all periods of Egyptian history.
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Andrew Bednarski
Andrew Bednarski
Andrew Bednarski is assistant to the director of special projects at the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE). He has extensive excavation experience and has published broadly on ancient Egypt.
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Manfred Bietak
Manfred Bietak
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austrian Archaeological Institute, Full Member of the Academy
University of Vienna, Institute of egyptology, Emeritus
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Dr. Fayza Haikal
Dr. Fayza Haikal
Dr. Fayza Haikal is an Egyptian woman pioneer of archaeology. A University Professor and an Archaeologist, Fayza studied archaeology at Cairo University, and earned her PhD from Oxford University in England.
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Stuart Tyson Smith
Stuart Tyson Smith
Stuart Tyson Smith is an Egyptologist and professor in the Anthropology department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His specialty is the interaction between ancient Egypt and Nubia.
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James Henry Breasted
James Henry Breasted
James Henry Breasted was an American archaeologist, Egyptologist, and historian. He the first American to obtain a doctorate in Egyptology in Berlin – he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago
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