I am not sure what you are looking for here. You would be able to make a list
of people cited as experts on the Discovery Channel or History Channel very
easily. Those certainly would be widely recognized by people outside the field.
You could do a keyword search for Egypt and Archaeologist at the NY Times
website and come up with articles. Are you looking for well-respected
Egyptologists? Those who are at the cutting edge of the field? Those who have
jobs at the most prominent universities? Those who keynote the big conferences?
Who edit the major journals or encyclopedias? Who have books that sell well on
Amazon.com? This is such a nebulous question I can't really figure out what you
are looking for.
Sara E. Orel, PhD
Professor of Art History
Truman State University
Kirksville, MO 63501 orel@...
Can someone here please give me a list of say 10 of the most prominent and widely recognized Egyptologists working in this field today? With thanks in advance,...
I am not sure what you are looking for here. You would be able to make a list of people cited as experts on the Discovery Channel or History Channel very...
... I mean widely recognized by other professional Egyptologists. Jeffrey -- Jeffrey B. Gibson, D.Phil. (Oxon) 1500 W. Pratt Blvd. Chicago, Illinois e-mail...
Jeffrey, This isn't related to what I think it's related, is it? Anyway, I'll ask my old Egyptology professor. I know getting a list of "top 10" will be...
... No, I would say possibly that Zahi is the //most// well known among the "Average Joe" public, partly probably due to his position. For the American media,...
Dear Mr Gibson, perhaps the most celebrated Egyptologist today, and most highly regarded by his peers for the excellence both of his scholarly work and of his...
Although I am not happy to refer to Wikipedia, there is a list of egyptologists, dead as well as living. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Egyptologists The...
Jeff, I will throw out a bunch and let others add to it. This is NOT in any form of order. 1) Donald Redford 2) Ian Shaw 3) Barry Kemp 4) William Simpson 5)...
As everyone else has said, this is an incredibly hard list to come up with and each scholar would have his or her own 10 that come to mind. While I agree with...
You should check on the EEF list. David Q. Hall ________________________________ From: Jeffrey B. Gibson <jgibson000@...> To: ANE-2@yahoogroups.com ...
David Hall
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Nov 9, 2009 8:07 am
And of course the definition of how one would define an Egyptologist matters a great deal as well. I notice that many of these lists do not include...
Niels, ". . . however, the ones on Doug Petrovich's list are not -- many (not including Redford) chosen because of their often conservative attitude to the Old...
It is interesting that "King Tut" Carter was never mentioned. Of all the names mentioned, his may be the best known to the general public. As for Kitchen -...
I think Carter has not been mentioned, nor anyone else of his approximate era, such as Petrie, because the question was which Egyptologists are currently the...
... Yes, that's correct. But by "most prominent", I did not mean "most known". I meant "most highly regarded" -- the ones recognized and acknowledged by...
though he's not that good a historian of ancient israel, he's an awfully good egyptologist- so i'll have to agree with those who have mentioned kenneth...
Dear Professor Gibson and Gentle Folk, There is an organization called the American Research Center in Egypt that many or most Egyptologists belong to....
The wikipedia list which has just been mentioned is bad, both for his omissions (among the dead, quid e.g. of John Gwyn Griffiths, as great a Classicist as he...
I've seen Jan Assmann on a list here, and I think Loprieno as well. I second the nomination of Ken Kitchen. Has Ken Weeks been mentioned? Brian Yare Worcester,...
Wrong ; both of them are on mine. I may also point out, for the person who did lament the lack of any archeologist on the various lists which have been...
Jean-Fabrice, "I may also point out, for the person who did lament the lack of any archeologist on the various lists which have been submitted, that I...
Yes, it is different, apparently. While one may specialize in a variety of sub-disciplines (philology and archaeology being the old, traditional ones), they...
Have you all seen the long article on Zawi Hawass in the latest New Yorker magazine...? Best, Michael F. Lane University of Maryland, Baltimore County ... -- ...
You are probably reffering to this: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/11/16/091116fa_fact_parker http://tinyurl.com/yabxu9n A subscription is required. ...
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