László Török

László Török (born May 13, 1941 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian archaeologist .

Török studied architecture at the Technical University of Budapest from 1959 to 1964 and received his diploma in 1964 . In 1968 he received his doctorate in the field of architectural history. He completed his postgraduate studies in Coptic Studies from 1971 to 1972 at the Philosophical Faculty of the Eötvös Loránd University . From 1981 to 1994 he was head of the Roman Archeology Department at the Archaeological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in his hometown. In addition, he has been honorary professor of Egyptology at ELTE since 1991 and was promoted to doctorate at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1992.

László Török is best known for his numerous publications on Nubia in antiquity . Since 1995 he has been a foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences . He has had an honorary doctorate from the University of Bergen in Norway since 2000 , has been on the Advisory Board of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 2003 and has been a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 2004 and since 2010.

Publications (selection)

A szegedi eklektika (Szeged 1966)

Meroé és Nubia a 2.-7. században (Budapest 1977)

Economic Offices and Officials in Meroitic Nubia (Budapest 1979)

The Meroitic State (Berlin 1986)

The Royal Crowns of Kush. A Study in Middle Nile Valley Regalia and Iconography in the 1st Millennia BC and AD (Oxford 1987)

Late Antique Nubia (Budapest 1988)

Coptic Antiquities I – II. (Rome 1993)

(Associate Editor ): Fontes Historiae Nubiorum. Textual Sources for the History of the Middle Nile Region between the eighth Century BC and the sixth Century AD Vol. 1–4 (Bergen 1994–2000)

Meroe. Six Studies on the Cultural Identity of An Ancient African State (Budapest 1995)

The Birth of an Ancient African Kingdom (Lille 1995)

Egyptian Terracottas of the Hellenistic and Roman Periods (Rome 1995)

The Kingdom of Kush. Handbook of the Napatan-Meroitic Civilization (Leiden-New York-Cologne 1997)

A vadászó kentaur (Budapest 1998)

The Image of the Ordered World in Ancient Nubian Art (Leiden-Boston-Cologne 2002)

Transfigurations of Hellenism. Aspects of Late Antique Art in Egypt AD 250-700 (Leiden-Boston 2005)

Between Two Worlds. The Frontier Region between Ancient Nubia and Egypt 3700 BC - AD 500 (Leiden-Boston 2009)

Hellenizing Art in Ancient Nubia 300 BC - AD 250 and its Egyptian Models. A Study in "Acculturation" (Leiden-Boston 2011)

Herodotus in Nubia (Leiden-Boston 2014)