Julie Dawson is the former Head of Conservation and Scientific Research at the Fitzwilliam Museum (retired May 2021) and was...
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Read full bioHelen Strudwick is Senior Curator (Ancient Nile Valley) at the Fitzwilliam Museum and is responsible for the Museum’s collection of...
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Read full bioFlavia is Objects Conservator, Research Associate at the Fitzwilliam Museum. She has worked extensively on Egyptian funerary artefacts at the...
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Read full bioFormerly a Postdoctoral Research Associate for the Egyptian Coffins Project at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Melanie Pitkin is Senior Curator, Nicholson...
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Read full bioDr Geoffrey Killen is a leading Egyptologist, wood technologist and furniture historian. He studied Design and Technology at Shoreditch College,...
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Read full bioElsbeth Geldhof is an independent historic paint conservator, and researcher of longue durée painting techniques and pigment sources from the...
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Read full bioLucy Wrapson is a paintings conservator and teacher of conservation and historic painting techniques at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, University...
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Read full bioCaterina did her undergraduate studies in Technology for Conservation and Restoration, at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, focusing on the...
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Read full bioSara Hany Abed joined the Egyptian Coffins project at the Fitzwilliam Museum in 2019, first as a translator and project...
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Read full bioDr Nour Mohamed Badr is a Conservator at the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo and a specialist in the conservation...
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Read full bioConsultant Radiologist, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK Honorary Professor, University of East Anglia Host of the...
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Read full bioDan now works for Historic England directing their Digital Strategy. Until 2018, he was Head of Digital and IT for...
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Read full bioJennifer Marchant (1979-2020) was an Antiquities Conservator at the Fitzwilliam Museum and a core contributing member of the Fitzwilliam Egyptian...
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Read full bioNelly von Aderkas is a Conservation Scientist interested in historic painting materials and methods. She has a background in chemistry...
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Read full bioFrom March-July 2019, Charlotte Thompson-Mitchell was an intern working with the Egyptian Coffins team on the successful development and delivery...
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Read full bioCharlotte Hunkeler is carrying out research towards a PhD at the University of Basel. Her thesis is on inner coffins...
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The project is extremely grateful for the contributions of:
Gavin Toomey and Patricia Wheatley for their work on producing our films
Sara Hany, Faten Kamal and Fatma Amin, who between them provided Arabic translations of our videos.