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Laurel Bestock

Assistant Professor of Archaeology and Egyptology & Ancient Western Asian St:
Archaeology and Egyptology & Ancient Western Asian Studies
Phone: +1 401 863 6291
Laurel_Bestock@brown.edu

Biography

I completed my PhD in Egyptian archaeology and art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University in 2007. After a brief stint at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I joined the faculty of Brown in the fall of 2008. I have been excavating for many years at Abydos in southern Egypt, one of the most important sites for understanding the rise of pharaonic civilization. My recent work has focused on the development of Egyptian kingship and cult, based on the discovery of two mortuary temples built for one of the first kings of Egypt. In addition to its early royal significance, Abydos was an important religious center, town, and set of cemeteries for millennia. I am currently in the middle of getting hooked on Late Period and Ptolemaic tombs.

Degrees

PhD