Alicia Daneri Rodrigo (born 1942) is an Argentine

Egyptologist Egyptology (from ''Egypt'' and Greek , '' -logia''; ar, علم المصريات) is the study of ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, architecture and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religious ...

who earned a doctorate at the

Universidad de Buenos Aires The University of Buenos Aires ( es, Universidad de Buenos Aires, UBA) is a public research university in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Established in 1821, it is the premier institution of higher learning in the country and one of the most prestigi ...

. Daneri graduated in

History History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the History of writing#Inventions of writing, invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbr ...

at the

Universidad Nacional de La Plata The La Plata National University ( es, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, UNLP) is one of the most important Argentine national universities and the biggest one situated in the city of La Plata, capital of Buenos Aires Province. It has over ...

. She completed a Master's Degree in Egyptology at the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution ...

, Canada, and later a Doctorate at the

. She was Professor of Ancient Near East history at the Universidad de la Plata and Buenos Aires. She has been a researcher at CONICET, deputy director of the Egyptology Studies Program and director of the Department of Egyptology at the Instituto Multidisciplinario de Historia y Ciencias Humanas ( CONICET). From 2004 to 2009 she was Director of the Institute of Ancient Oriental History of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UBA and of her periodical publication RIHAO. She has been a member of the group led by Professor

Donald Redford Donald Bruce Redford (born September 2, 1934) is a Canadian Egyptologist and archaeologist, currently Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Pennsylvania State University. He is married to Susan Redford, who is also an Egyptolo ...

(

Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a Public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related Land-grant university, land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvan ...

) and has participated in excavations in Egypt, in

Karnak The Karnak Temple Complex, commonly known as Karnak (, which was originally derived from ar, خورنق ''Khurnaq'' "fortified village"), comprises a vast mix of decayed temples, pylons, chapels, and other buildings near Luxor, Egypt. Construct ...

between 1989 and 1991, and on the site of Tel Rub'a,

Mendes Mendes ( grc-gre, Μένδης, ''gen''.: ), the Greek name of the ancient Egyptian city of Djedet, also known in ancient Egypt as Per-Banebdjedet ("The Domain of the Ram Lord of Djedet") and Anpet, is known today as Tell El-Ruba ( ar, تل ال ...

, between 1992 and 2005. Her research has focused on issues related to the archaeological material from the French-Argentine excavations in Aksha; with the exchange of goods between Egypt, the

Eastern Mediterranean Eastern Mediterranean is a loose definition of the eastern approximate half, or third, of the Mediterranean Sea, often defined as the countries around the Levantine Sea. It typically embraces all of that sea's coastal zones, referring to communi ...

and other regions of the

ancient world Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history to as far as late antiquity. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with the Sumerian cuneiform script. Ancient history cove ...

and with the ceramic material from the excavations in Tel Rub'a-Mendes. Alicia Daneri is now honorary researcher at the Centre of Studies of History of the Ancient East of the

Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina A pontifical ( la, pontificale) is a Christian liturgical book containing the liturgies that only a bishop may perform. Among the liturgies are those of the ordinal for the ordination and consecration of deacons, priests, and bishops to Holy O ...

and former member of the editorial board of its journal

Antiguo Oriente ''Antiguo Oriente'' is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Center of Studies of Ancient Near Eastern History (CEHAO) (Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina, Buenos Aires). It is one of the few scholarly journals in the ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Daneri, Alicia 1942 births Argentine Egyptologists University of Buenos Aires faculty Argentine women historians 20th-century Argentine historians Argentine women archaeologists Argentine archaeologists Place of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century Argentine historians