Barry Kemp (Egyptologist)

Barry John Kemp, CBE, FBA (born 14 May 1940) is an English archaeologist and Egyptologist. He is Professor Emeritus of Egyptology at the University of Cambridge and directing excavations at Amarna in Egypt. His widely renowned book Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilisation is a core text of Egyptology and many Ancient History courses.[1]

Barry J. Kemp

CBE FBA
Born (1940-05-14) 14 May 1940
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Liverpool
Academic work
DisciplineEgyptologist
Sub-discipline
Institutions

Early life and education

Kemp was born on 14 May 1940.[2] He studied Egyptology at the University of Liverpool, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1962.[2][3]

Academic career

In 1962, Kemp joined the University of Cambridge as an assistant lecturer.[4] He was promoted to lecturer in 1969, Reader in Egyptology in 1990, and made Professor of Egyptology in 2005.[2][5] He was also a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge from 1990 to 2007.[2][6] He retired from full-time academia in 2007, and was made professor emeritus.[2] Since 2008, he has been a senior fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at Cambridge.[2][7]

From 1977 until 2008, he was the director of excavation and archaeological survey at Amarna for the Egypt Exploration Society.[8] He continues his research of the Amarna Period of ancient Egypt as director of the Amarna Project and secretary of the Amarna Trust.[9] He has also contributed to many highly regarded and widely used Egyptology texts, including Civilisations of the Ancient Near East, edited by Jack Sasson. He is a co-author of Bruce Trigger's Ancient Egypt: A Social History, which incorporates the work of many leading Egyptologists and addresses recent trends in the subject.[10] Kemp states he is interested in developing a holistic picture of Ancient Egyptian society rather than focussing on the elite culture that dominates the archaeological record: "This holistic approach involves explaining the present appearance of the site in terms of all the agencies at work..."[11]

Honours

Kemp was elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 1992.[4] He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to archaeology, education and international relations in Egypt.[12]

Publications
  • Barry Kemp (2018). Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilisation (3rd ed.). Routledge. ISBN 9781351166485.
  • Barry Kemp. Amarna Reports, parts 1–5. Egypt Exploration Society.
  • Barry Kemp (2015). Ancient Egypt: All that matters. Quercus. ISBN 978-1-44418620-8.
  • Barry Kemp (2012). The City of Akhenaten and Nefertiti: Armana and Its People. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-29120-7.
  • Barry Kemp (2007). The Egyptian Book of the Dead. Granta Books. ISBN 978-1-86207-913-7.
  • Barry Kemp (2005). Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilisation (2nd ed.). Routledge. ISBN 0-415-23550-2.
  • Barry Kemp (2005). 100 Hieroglyphs: Think Like an Egyptian. Granta Books. ISBN 1-86207-658-8.
  • Barry Kemp (2000). Bricks and metaphor. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 10, 335–46. A comparative essay on the theme 'Were cities built as images?'.
  • Barry Kemp (1998). More of Amarna's city plan. Egyptian Archaeology 13, 17–18.
  • Barry Kemp (1992). Amarna from the air. Egyptian Archaeology 2, 15–17.
  • Barry Kemp (1989). Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilisation (1st ed.).
  • Barry Kemp (1986). Tell el-Amarna, 4000 word entry in the Lexikon der Ägyptologie, ed. W. Helck and W. Westendorf, Band VI. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 309–19.
  • Barry Kemp (1983). Tell el-'Amarna. In H.S. Smith and R.M. Hall, ed., Ancient Centres of Egyptian Civilization, pp. 57–72. London: Egyptian Education Bureau.
  • Barry Kemp (1981). The character of the South Suburb at Tell el-'Amarna. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft zu Berlin 113, 81–97.
  • Barry Kemp (1977). The city of el-Amarna as a source for the study of urban society in ancient Egypt in World Archaeology 9, 123–39.

References
  1. "Our Scholars". Far Horizons Archaeological and Cultural Trips Inc. Archived from the original on 27 February 2014. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
  2. "Kemp, Prof. Barry John, (born 14 May 1940), Professor of Egyptology, 2005–07, now Emeritus, and Fellow, McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research, since 2008, University of Cambridge; Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, 1990–2007, now Emeritus". Who's Who 2020. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2019. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  3. "Professor Barry Kemp FBA". The British Academy. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  4. "Professor Barry Kemp". British Academy Fellows. British Academy. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  5. "September 16th 2013 – Barry Kemp". Egyptian Study Society. Archived from the original on 2 March 2014. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
  6. "Professor Barry Kemp". Wolfson College, Cambridge. Archived from the original on 23 September 2017. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
  7. Jarman, Emma (26 February 2020). "Prof Barry Kemp". Department of Archaeology. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  8. "Barry Kemp honoured". Egypt Exploration Society. Archived from the original on 19 September 2016. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  9. "Contact". Armarna Project. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  10. Bruce Trigger, B.J. Kemp, D. O'Connor, and A.B. Lloyd Ancient Egypt: A Social History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
  11. "Amarna Report 3 – Introduction" (PDF). Amarna Project, with permission by the Egyptian Study Society. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  12. "No. 59647". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2010. p. 24.


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