Kent R. Weeks
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| Born | December 16, 1941 |
Kent R. Weeks(born December 16, 1941) is an AmericanEgyptologist.
Biography[edit]
He was born inEverett, Washington,on December 16, 1941.
He remembers deciding to be an Egyptologist at the age of eight.[1]Weeks attendedR. A. Long High SchoolinLongview, Washington,and graduated in 1959. He studiedanthropologyatUniversity of WashingtoninSeattle,from where he obtained a master's degree. He visited Egypt for the first time in 1963 and was active in digs inNubiaassociated with relocation work necessitated by the building of theAswan Damand the flooding of theNile Valleyto createLake Nasser.In 1970 he earned a doctorate inEgyptologyfromYale University.
Dr. Weeks' professional career began with his appointment as Professor of Anthropology at American University in Cairo for the academic year 1971–72. Later he was appointed assistant Curator of Egyptian Art at theMetropolitan Museum of Art,then assistant Professor at theUniversity of Chicagoand Director of its Institute in Luxor (Chicago House), then professor at theUniversity of California, Berkeley,and in 1988 he became a professor of Egyptology atThe American University in Cairo.His wife, Susan Weeks, was also an archaeologist and a gifted artist before her death in December 2009.
In 1978, Weeks devised and launched theTheban Mapping Project–an exceedingly ambitious plan to photograph and map every temple and tomb in theThebanNecropolis.As part of this project, Weeks introducedhot air ballooningto theLuxorarea with the intent of making inexpensive aerial surveys, which grew into an important part of the local tourist industry. However, a more important achievement of the Project was its 1995 discovery of the identity, and vast dimensions, ofKV5,the tomb of the sons ofRamesses IIin theValley of the Kings.
In 1996, Weeks received the Golden Plate Award of theAmerican Academy of Achievement.[2][3]
Publications[edit]
- Atlas of the Valley of the Kings: The Theban Mapping Project
- The Illustrated Guide to Luxor and the Valley of the Kings
- TheValley of the Kings:The Tombs and the Funerary of Thebes West,(as editor)
- TheLost Tomb,1998
References[edit]
- ^Weeks, Kent (September 1998). "Valley of the Kings".National Geographic.194:9.
- ^"Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement".www.achievement.org.American Academy of Achievement.
- ^"2014 Summit Photo".
British paleoanthropologist, Meave Leakey, receives the Golden Plate Award presented by Awards Council member Egyptologist Kent R. Weeks during the Banquet of the Golden Plate Award ceremonies at Chicago's Field Museum.
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