Barry Kemp
Barry Kemp
Professor of Archaeology and Director of Amarna Project
Barry Kemp is a Professor of Egyptology at the University of Cambridge's Department of Oriental Studies, and the Director of the Amarna Project - the major excavation at the site of Tell el-Amarna in Egypt which has been ingoing since the late 90s.
He has written several books and papers, most notably Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization (first edition 1991, second edition 2005), which has become a key text book in many university Egyptology and ancient history courses. Other titles Kemp has contributed to include Journal of Civilisations of the Ancient Near East, edited by Jack Sasson, and Ancient Egypt: A Social History, by BG Trigger.
He has worked at Amarna since 1977, and is currently based in Cairo, Egypt.
