The Department of Archaeology of the Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań and the City of Poznań would like to invite you to an open lecture by Dr. Nigel Strudwick entitled "The Tomb Robbers of Ancient Luxor in Egypt". The lecture will take place on 3 April 2023 at 3:30 p.m. at the Collegium Historicum, ul. Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 7.
Dr. Nigel Strudwick is a British Egyptologist currently working at the University of Cambridge and is the author of 10 monographs, more than 50 scientific articles and almost 40 scientific reviews. He edited 9 further monographs and also wrote three popular science books.
He received education at Oxford and Liverpool University, where he defended his doctoral thesis in 1983. In 1996, he was awarded the prestigious Humboldt Foundation scholarship to stay at the University of Heidelberg (re-awarded in 2018). He was the curator of the Ancient Egyptian Department at The British Museum from 1998 to 2009, and a visiting professor at the University of Memphis (USA) from 2008 to 2008 and from 2011 to 2015. Since 2018, he has worked at the McDonalds Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge.
Since 1979, he has carried out archaeological research in Egypt, including in the cemeteries at Sakkara (Teti pyramid complex), Abydos (temple of Seti I) and in Thebes, where he has headed The Cambridge Theban Tombs Project since 1984. As part of it, he examined four tombs from the 18th Dynasty period (1526-1292 BC): TT 253, TT254, TT294 and TT 297.
An established Egyptologist, from 1997 to 2006 he was a consultant on Egyptology of Lords Carnarvon, and has been an expert at the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo since 2019.