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    Alexandre Piankoff

    Alexandre Piankoff was a world-renowned anthropologist and Egyptologist, who made significant progress in the field of translating religious texts. Born in 1897 in St Petersburg, Russia, Piankoff first got a taste for history when visiting the majestic State Hermitage Museum in his home city. Enthralled by the Egyptology section in particular, Piankoff studied Foreign Languages and Egyptian Philology at university, before his academic life was cut short by the First World War. Thereafter Piankoff became a fervent academic, studying at Berlin, then the Sarbonne in 1924, then the University of Paris where he obtained a Phd. The Second World War…

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    James Mellaart

    James Mellaart Pre-eminent archaeologist of the Neolithic Near East British archaeologist, James Mellaart, was born in London in 1925.  His family moved to Holland where his father worked as an expert in Dutch old master paintings and drawings.  At the outbreak of World War II, Mellaart secured a position at the museum in Leiden, where he worked until the war ended.  Then he enrolled in University College in London where he studied egyptology.  His studies led him to join the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, Turkey. In the early 1950s, he began an archaeological survey of Anatolia.  His first…

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    Arthur Evans

    Attribution: Peterak Sir Arthur John Evans Arthur Evans discovered the Palace of Knossos in Crete 8 July 1851 Sir Arthur John Evans was born in Nash Mills, England.  He was educated at the University of Oxford, and the University of Göttingen and became  the curator of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford from 1884 to 1908.  He spent almost 35 years excavating at Knossos, beginning in 1900. Uncovering the palace of Knossos on Crete, led to Sir Arthur John Evans being regarded as one of Britain’s most revered archaeologists. He also created the concept of Minoan civilization from the forms and…

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    King Tut Video Series

    Learn all about the Boy King in Heritage Key’s special video series! Famous Egyptologist Dr Zahi Hawass tells us about the life and death of King Tut: VIDEO How did King Tut Die? VIDEO The Curse of the Mummy VIDEO The Robbing of King Tut’s Tomb VIDEO Tutankhamun’s Treasures Director of the Cairo Museum Janice Kamrin takes us on a guided tour: VIDEO The Canopic Jars and Shrines VIDEO Animal Iconography VIDEO Tutankhamun’s Jewellery VIDEO The Funerary Figures You can also watch Lord and Lady Carnarvon explaining the discovery of King Tut’s tomb (KV62) by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon. Explore…

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    Luca Zan

    Luca Zan Professor of Management Luca Zan is Professor of Management at GIOCA, University of Bologna, and teaches at MAM, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. He has published extensively in international journals on strategic management and change, management and accounting history, and the management of museums and cutural organisations. Luca Zan’s research deals with: Management and accounting history, both in terms of theories, and practices (especially in pre-industrial settings, such the Venice Arsenal 16th century). Strategic change processes, looked at through the lenses of strategic management, management accounting and organization theory traditions. The diffusion of economic and managerial discourse in non profit…

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    Jon Cannon

    Jon Cannon Expert and writer on British heritage Jon Cannon writes about old places in general and teaches medieval architectural history in particular. He teaches at the University of Bristol and frequently gives talks and leads tours on the subject. He has also published several articles on Avebury, and contributes a regular profile of a historic area – from ancient prehistory to 20th century heritage – to British Archaeology magazine. He has worked in the heritage industry for nearly 15 years, including working for the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, and English Heritage. He went freelance in…

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    David Silverman

    Curator specializing in King Tut Dr. David P. Silverman serves as the curator, advisor and academic content creator for the exhibition Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs. This exhibit truly completes a full circle for him; in 1977, he was in charge of curatorial content for the exhibition Treasures of Tutankhamun at Chicago’s Field Museum. He also co-authored the text panels and labels that traveled around the United States with the exhibition, which attracted an unprecedented 1.8 million visitors in its run at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1979 and inspired the phenomenon known as ‘Tutmania’. A…

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    Heritage Key on the Web

    Nowadays being part of the ‘web’ isn’t limited to having an interesting website, but also means doing a genuine effort to reach out, being part of the community as well as inviting others to take part in your website. Heritage Key is doing exactly that, so you can find us on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Flickr, iTunes, … as well as subscribe to our feeds to get a daily overview of all the new articles and blogs posted to Heritage Key. You’re welcome to join us on: Twitter Follow Heritage Key’s latest tweets – and REtweets – or reach out to…

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    Esther Jacobson-Tepfer

    Esther Jacobson-Tepfer Professor of Asian Art at the University of Oregon, Expert on the Archaeology of Mongolia Esther Jacobson-Tepfer is Maude I Kerns Professor Emeritus of Asian Art at the University of Oregon, where she taught undergraduate courses in the History of Indian Art, Art of the Silk Road, and Nomadic Art of Eurasia, and undergraduate and graduate courses in Scythian Gold, North Asian Rock Art, and Judaic Art. Dr Jacobson-Tepfer is a past recipient of the Ersted Award for Distinguished Teaching, and was the first director of the University’s Center for Asian and Pacific Studies. Dr Jacobson-Tepfer received her…

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    Derry Brabbs

    Acclaimed heritage photographer Derry Brabbs is regarded as one of England’s finest published photographers within the spheres of heritage and landscape, with over 25 books to his credit. Known for his acclaimed collaborations with James Herriot and Alfred Wainwright, he has also written and illustrated several titles celebrating England’s rich architectural and cultural legacy, including English Country Churches, Abbeys & Monasteries, English Country Pubs, Landmark, and A Year in the Life of the Welsh Marches. He is also the author and photographer of Hadrian’s Wall, in which he charts the Roman frontier from west to east, from the Solway Firth…