Ian Shaw
Ian Shaw
Archaeologist
Dr Ian Shaw is the Chairman of the Egypt Exploration Society and Senior Lecturer in Egyptian Archaeology at the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool.
He received his BA (1982) and PhD (1987) in Egyptology from the University of Cambridge. He was a British Academy funded Junior Research Fellow at New Hall, University of Cambridge from 1988 to 1992.
Dr Shaw’s main research interests focus on ancient Egyptian artefacts, technology, innovation, warfare, urbanisation and social life. He has excavated and surveyed at the cities of Amarna and Memphis, the Valley of the Kings, and the quarrying settlements at Hatnub, Wadi el-Hudi, Sikait Zubara and Gebel el-Asr. Currently, he is undertaking a survey of the harim palace town at Gurob in the Faiyum.
His publications include Egyptian Warfare and Weapons (Shire Publications, Princes Risborough 1991), The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt (Oxford University Press, 2000), Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology (Cambridge University Press, 2000), Ancient Egypt: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2004), The British Museum Dictionary of Ancient Egypt, 2nd edition (BMP 2008), Hatnub: Quarrying Travertine in Ancient Egypt (EES in press), and Technology and Innovation in Ancient Egypt (Duckworth, forthcoming).
