Peter the Manuelian

Peter Der Manuelian (born April 15, 1959 ) is an American Egyptologist .

Life

Manuelian graduated from Harvard University . From 1977 he took part in excavations in Giza and Naqada . In 1981 he gained in the subject Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations the Bachelor -degree. Through the Fulbright program and the DAAD , he came from 1981 to 1982 as a scholarship holder at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen . He then moved to the University of Chicago , where he took part in the exploration of temples of the New Kingdom in Luxor from 1984 to 1987 . In 1990 he received his PhD from the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

Manuelian has worked for the Boston Museum of Fine Arts since 1987 and has been leading the museum's excavations in the Giza necropolis since 1993. Between 2000 and 2010 he worked as a lecturer in Egyptology at the Department of Classics at Tufts University and between 2001 and 2003 at the Department of Near Eastern Languages ​​and Civilizations at Harvard University. From 2003 to 2008 Manuelian also worked as a Research Associate at the Semitic Museum at Harvard University. Since 2010 he has held the Chair of Egyptology at Harvard University and since 2013 Director of the Semitic Museum.

Fonts

Specialist literature

• Studies in the Reign of Amenophis II. 1987
• Living in the past. Studies in Archaism of the Egyptian Twenty-sixth Dynasty. 1994
• Slab stelae of the Giza necropolis. 2003
• Mastabas of Nucleus Cemetery G2100. 2009
• Digital Giza. Visualizing the Pyramids. 2017

Children's books

• With Helen I. Driggs: Ancient Egypt. A fact-filled coloring book. 1997
• Hieroglyphs from A to Z. A Rhyming Book with Ancient Egyptian Stencils for Kids. 2010

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Der Manuelian in the catalog of the German National Library
• Department of Near Eastern Languages ​​and Civilizations at Harvard University: Peter Der Manuelian