Anthony John Arkell

Anthony John Arkell , mostly AJ Arkell quoted, (born July 29, 1898 in Hinxhill , Kent , † February 26, 1980 in Chelmsford ) was a British Egyptologist and administrator in Sudan .

Life

Arkell attended Bradfield College and studied at Queen's College , Oxford. He worked in the British Royal Flying Corps during World War I and then in administrative service in Sudan, then a British colony. He also undertook archaeological expeditions during which he discovered, among other things, ancient ironworks in Meroe and legacies of the Badari culture of predynastic Upper Egypt. As a colonial administrator, he ended the slave trade between Sudan and Ethiopia and had villages built for the freed slaves.

In 1938 he received an official appointment as an archaeologist in Sudan. In 1948 he became curator of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archeology and professor of Egyptology at University College London . In 1963 he retired and became a clergyman.

Fonts

• History of the Sudan. From the earliest times to 1821. The Athlone Press, London 1955, (2nd, revised edition. Ibid. 1961; several reprints).
• Contributions in: William Y. Adams: Meroitic North and South. A study in cultural contrasts (= Meroitica. 2, ISSN  0138-3663 ). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1976.
• The prehistory of the Nile valley (= Handbook of Oriental Studies . Dept. 7: Art and Archeology. Vol. 1: The old front Orient. Section 2: The monuments. A: Egypt. Lfg. 1). Brill, Leiden et al. 1975, ISBN 90-04-04397-7 .
• Collaboration on Fischer world history . Part 1.

Web links

• Arkell Papers, School of Oriental and African Studies
• Arkell Papers, Durham University