Richard Parkinson

Dr Richard Parkinson is one of the British Museum's most senior Egyptologists, assuming the title of Assistant Keeper of Ancient Pharaonic Culture at the London institution. Dr Parkinson is responsible for the care, collection and display of the museum's inscribed Egyptian artefacts. These include such famous items as the Papyrus of Ani and the Rosetta Stone - the redisplay of which Dr Parkinson was in charge in 2004. Dr Parkinson is also responsible for university liaison with the museum, and has worked on a great number of projects and papers since his move to the BM from Oxford University in 1991. Dr Parkinson's interests also wade into poetry of the Egyptian classic age (1940-1640 BC) - and he examines ancient manuscripts in terms of their sexuality, performance and cultural power. As well as qualifications on British shores, Dr Parkinson is also a visiting lecturer at the University of Koln and an honorary doctor at Sofia's New Bulgarian University.

Articles and blog posts related to Richard Parkinson

Egyptian Book of the Dead: Recent Research & New Perspectives

by Sean Williams

The Book of the Dead is one of the most iconic artefacts of the Ancient Egyptian Empire, and some of its foremost scholars converged on the British Museum this week to give their views on the text. Heritage Key sums up the biggest hitters.

The British Museum on Pigments and Fading in the Book of the Dead

by Sean Williams

British Museum experts Richard Parkinson and Bridget Leach propose some fascinating facts on the colours used to creat one of Ancient Egypt's most famous texts, the Book of the Dead.

Publications

Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry

 

WileyBlackwell (2009)

by Richard Parkinson

The Painted Tomb-Chapel of Nebamun

 

British Museum Press (2008)

by Richard Parkinson, Kevin Lovelock

Pocket Guide to Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs

 

British Museum Press (2004)

by Richard Parkinson

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