Nigel Strudwick Author & Editor

Nigel Strudwick is a leading expert on the archaeology of Theban Tombs, having worked in the Private Tombs of Thebes since 1984 and has published widely on the subject and region. He has worked as a curator at the British Museum and as a Visiting Professor in the University of Memphis. Helen Strudwick is Egypt 2016 Curator at the Fitzwilliam Museum. She originally studied archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean at Liverpool, but rapidly specialised in Egyptology. Her research focuses on Ancient Egyptian coffins and funerary archaeology, tombs and funerary practice at Thebes (ancient Luxor), sightlines in ancient landscapes and the metaphysics of seeing and the history of Egyptology.