Toby Wilkinson

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Toby Wilkinson

Toby AH Wilkinson (* 1969 ) is a British Egyptologist .

Career

Wilkinson studied Egyptology at Downing College at the University of Cambridge and graduated with honors (First Class Honors); he also received the University's Thomas Mulvey Prize. 1993 followed the Ph.D. Graduated from Christ's College, University of Cambridge, where he was Lady Wallis Budge Junior Research Fellow from 1993 to 1997 . From 1997 to 1999 he was a Leverhulme Special Research Fellow at the University of Durham and then returned to Cambridge, where he has been a Fellow at Clare College since 2003 .

Wilkinson is considered one of the most important English Egyptologists of his generation and has lectured worldwide. He has excavated Egypt in Buto and Memphis and became known to a wide audience through appearances in a number of BBC and Channel 4 television documentaries about Egypt, including Horizon and Private Lives of the Pharaohs . In July 2011 he became head of the International Strategy Office at Cambridge University. He currently lives in Suffolk .

Fonts

  • State Formation in Egypt: Chronology and Society . British Archaeological Reports (BAR) International, Cambridge 1996, ISBN 0-86054-838-4 .
  • Early Dynastic Egypt . Routledge, London 1999, ISBN 0-415-26011-6 .
  • Royal Annals of Ancient Egypt: the Palermo Stone and Its Associated Fragments . Kegan Paul, London 2000, ISBN 0-7103-0667-9 .
  • Genesis of the Pharaohs: Dramatic New Discoveries That Rewrite the Origins of Ancient Egypt . Thames & Hudson, London 2003, ISBN 0-500-05122-4 .
  • The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Ancient Egypt. 2nd edition, Thames & Hudson, London 2008, ISBN 0-500-20396-2 .
  • Lives of the Ancient Egyptians: Pharaohs, Queens, Courtiers and Commoners . Thames & Hudson, London 2007, ISBN 0-500-05148-8 .
  • (Ed. :) The Egyptian World . Routledge, London 2009, ISBN 0-415-56295-3 .
  • The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt . Bloomsbury, London 2010, ISBN 0-553-38490-2 .
    • Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: The Story of a Mysterious Civilization from the 5th Millennium BC To Cleopatra. 3rd edition, Pantheon-Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-570-55275-9 (from the English by Enrico Heinemann and Karin Schuler).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography - Dr Toby Wilkinson On former homepage ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Dr Toby Wilkinson on: csap.cam.ac.uk from 2017; last accessed on May 26, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Wilkinson, Toby
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilkinson, Toby AH
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Egyptologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1969