Stephen Quirke is an Egyptologist. He is the current

Edwards Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology The Edwards Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology is a university professorial chair held at University College London. History The chair was founded on the death of Amelia Edwards of the Egyptian Exploration Fund in 1892, who bequeat ...

University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = ...

. He has worked at the

British Museum The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docum ...

(1989–1998) and since 1999 at the

Petrie Museum The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology in London is part of University College London Museums and Collections. The museum contains over 80,000 objects and ranks among some of the world's leading collections of Egyptian and Sudanese material ...

in London. He has published several books, some of them translated into other languages.

Works

*''Hieroglyphs and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt'', London 1996, *''The Cult of Ra: Sun-worship in Ancient Egypt: Sun-worship in Ancient Egypt from the Pyramids to Cleopatra'', London 2001, *''Who Were the Pharaohs?: A Guide to their Names, Reigns and Dynasties'', London 2010, *''Hidden Hands: Egyptian Workforces in Petrie Excavation Archives, 1880–1924'' (Duckworth Egyptology Series), London 2010 *''Birth tusks: the armoury of health in context – Egypt 1800 BC.'', London * (with

Gianluca Miniaci Gianluca Miniaci is an Italian Egyptologist, currently Associate Professor at the University of Pisa. He studied from 1999 to 2004 Classical Archaeology and wrote his dissertation in Egyptology on "The royal necropolis of the 17th dynasty at Dra ...

Juan Carlos Moreno García, Stephen Quirke & Andréas Stauder (editors)): ''The Arts of Making in Ancient Egypt, Voices, images, and objects of material producers 2000–1550 BC'', Sidestone. Leiden,

External links

Stephen Quirke on the website of UCL

References

Living people British Egyptologists Academics of University College London Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-historian-stub