Nicholas Reeves

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Carl Nicholas Reeves (born September 28, 1956 ) is an English Egyptologist who mainly deals with the Amarna period and the Valley of the Kings . He is especially popular with a wide audience through his books The Complete Tutankhamun. The king, the tomb, the royal treasure and The Valley of the Kings. Mysterious realm of the dead of the pharaohs , which he published together with Richard H. Wilkinson .

biography

Nicholas Reeves is the only child of photographer Arthur Raymond Reeves and Elizabeth Reeves.

He began studying ancient history at University College London in 1975 and graduated in 1978 with a Bachelor of Arts ( First Class Honors ). 1980 followed a postgraduate course at the University of Durham and he made his PhD in Egyptology in 1984. 1978 Reeves received the Douglas Murray Scholarship in Egyptian Archeology for his excavation work in grave KV55 in the Valley of the Kings, 1979-1980 he received the Flinders Petrie Scholarship in Egyptian Archeology for his work in Amarna and 1983 the ad hoc award of the University of Oxford Wainwright Fund for his work on the tomb of Tutankhamun .

From 1984 to 1991 Reeves was a curator in the Egyptian Department of the British Museum . He was also curator of the Egyptian Collection at Highclere Castle , Hampshire , from 1988 to 1998 , of the 7th Earl of Carnarvon , and advisor to the Egyptian Department of the Freud Museum in London. From 2000 to 2010 he was the curator of the Eton College Collection of Antiquities . From 2003 to 2007 he was director of the collection of The Denys Eyre Bower Bequest at Chiddingstone Castle . From 2010 to 2011 he worked as a Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and then worked there as a curator ( Lila Acheson Wallace Associate Curator of Egyptian Art ) in the Egyptian Department until 2014 . Since fall 2014 Reeves has been UIR Residential Scholar at the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona and Senior Egyptologist for the Egyptian Expedition at the University of Arizona.

Since 1994 he has been a member of the Society of Antiquaries of London . Reeves was director of the Amarna Royal Tombs Project (ARTP) in the Valley of the Kings from 1998 to 2002 .

further activities

Nicholas Reeves was also the organizer of various conferences on the theme of "Ancient Egypt", for example in 1990 after Tutankhamun at Highclere Castle . This grand two-day gathering was hosted by the 7th Earl of Carnarvon . For the approximately 150 international participants, it was not only possible to view the Egyptian collection of Highclere Castle, but also a selection of pieces that were made available especially for this purpose from the collection of the British royal family. Lectures on work in the Valley of the Kings were given by Donald P. Ryan , Jiro Kondo , Claude Vandersleyen , Marianne Eaton-Krauss , Erik Hornung , Kent R. Weeks , Hartwig Altenmüller , Friedrich Abitz and John H. Taylor , among others .

In 1988 Reeves was also archaeological correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and in 2000 founding editor of the Duckworth Egyptology Series , now Bloomsbury Academic at Bloomsbury Publishing . Nicholas Reeves is still responsible for the area. As part of this series, reprints by Theodore M. Davis appeared, among others : The Tomb of Hatshopsîtû , The Tomb of Queen Tiyi or The Tomb of Harmhabi and Touatânkhamanou , for which he wrote the forewords. In 2014, Bloomsbury Publishing also published a new edition of the three volumes The Tomb of Tutankhamun by Howard Carter , at the time published in cooperation with Arthur C. Mace, with his foreword.

Controversy

As of 2002, Reeves' excavation work in Egypt was banned because of rumors of antiquity smuggling. After a three-year investigation, his reputation was restored in Cairo on August 7, 2005 , after allegations made by the Supreme Council of Antiquities , which was then led by Zahi Hawass .

Publications (selection)

  • Durham E-Thesis: Studies in the archeology of the Valley of the Kings: with particular reference to tomb robbery and the caching of the royal mummies. 1984. Retrieved December 30, 2017.
  • Durham E-Thesis: Notes to text. Studies in the archeology of the Valley of the Kings. 1984. Retrieved December 30, 2017.
  • Tutankhamun. Pocket guide. London 1987.
  • Ancient Egypt at Highclere Castle. Lord Carnarvon and the search for Tutankhamun. Newbury 1989.
  • The tomb of Queen Tîyi. 2nd Edition. San Francisco 1990.
  • The complete Tutankhamun. The king, the tomb, the royal treasure. London 1990.
  • Valley of the Kings. The decline of a royal necropolis. London 1990.
  • Into the mummy's tomb. The real-life discovery of Tutankhamun's treasures. Toronto, Ontario 1992.
  • with John H. Taylor: Howard Carter before Tutankhamun. British Museum Press, London 1992.
  • After Tutankhamun. Research and excavation in the royal necropolis at Thebes. London 1992.
  • Tutankhamun's tomb. Nuremberg 1993.
  • with Richard H. Wilkinson: The Valley of the Kings. Mysterious realm of the dead of the pharaohs . Düsseldorf 1997.
  • with Stephen Spurr and Stephen Quirke: Egyptian art at Eton College. Selections from the Myers Museum. New York 1999.
  • Ancient Egypt: the great discoveries: a year-by-year chronicle. New edition, Thames & Hudson, London 2000, ISBN 9780500051054 .
    • German: fascination with Egypt. The great archaeological discoveries from the beginning until today. Munich 2001.
  • Akhenaten. Egypt's false prophet. (= Cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 91). von Zabern, Mainz 2002, ISBN 3-8053-2828-1 .
  • Tutankhamun's tomb. London 2005.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ nicholasreeves.com: ancient egypt resource ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on August 17, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nicholasreeves.com
  2. ^ The University of Arizona: College of Social & Behavioral Sciences, School of Anthropology: Nicholas Reeves Is 2014–2015 UIR Scholar , accessed August 17, 2015
  3. ^ A b Archeology, Archaeological Institute of America, Archive: Another New Tomb in the Valley of the Kings? dated August 3, 2006 , accessed August 14, 2015.
  4. ↑ nicholasreeves.com: Curriculum Vitae (cv) ( Memento of the original from May 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on August 25, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nicholasreeves.com
  5. ↑ nicholasreeves.com: Duckworth Egyptology ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on August 25, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nicholasreeves.com
personal data
SURNAME Reeves, Nicholas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reeves, Carl Nicholas (full first name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English Egyptologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1956