Professor John Baines FBA

Egyptology: art, archaeology, writing systems, religion, literature, social forms; comparative & theoretical study of early civilisations.

Elected 2011

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2011
Sections: Archaeology
Website: https://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/people/john-baines#/

John Baines was formerly Professor of Egyptology in the University of Oxford. He taught formerly at the University of Durham. He has held visiting appointments, in departments of Egyptology, anthropology, art history and archaeology, and Near Eastern Studies, at universities in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. Throughout his career he has sought to integrate the study of ancient Egypt into the wider discourse of the humanities and social sciences. He is a member of the American Philosophical Society and an honorary member of the American Oriental Society.

Current post

Professor of Egyptology Emeritus, University of Oxford; MZAW Gastprofessor, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich

Past appointments

Princeton University Old Dominion Fellow

2014 - 2014

Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford Professor of Egyptology

1976 - 2013

Publications

High culture and experience in ancient Egypt

John Baines - Published in 2013 by Equinox Publishing

The disappearance of writing systems

Edited by John Baines, John Bennet and Stephen Houston - Published in 2008

Visual and written culture in ancient Egypt

John Baines - Published in 2007 by Oxford University Press

Cultural atlas of ancient Egypt

John Baines and Jaromir Malek - Published in 2000

Second edition

Fecundity figures

John Baines - Published in 1985 by Griffith Institute Publications

Principles of Egyptian art

Heinrich Schäfer, translated and edited by John Baines - Published in 1974 by Griffith Institute Publications

Second edition 1986

What is Egyptology?

27 Mar 2020 Professor John Baines FBA

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Professor Martin Carver FBA

Value-led archaeological investigation of the European first millennium CE, especially in Britain and now Sicily, aimed at rediscovering and interpreting the changing experience and thinking of the people without history

Professor Julia Lee-Thorp FBA

Stable isotope chemistry applied to dietary ecology and environments in human origins research

Professor John Baines FBA

Current post

Professor of Egyptology Emeritus, University of Oxford; MZAW Gastprofessor, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich