Mr Harry James FBA

Archeology - Egyptology
Year elected
1903
Year of birth
1923
Year of death
2009
Honours
CBE, FBA

Current post

formerly Keeper of Egyptian Antiquities, The British Museum

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Professor Heonik Kwon FBA

The postcolonial Cold War; civil war memories in Vietnam and in Korea; death rituals and the politics of kinship; early fieldwork in indigenous Siberia; the heritage of internationalism in anthropology

Heonik Kwon FBA

Mr Michael C A Macdonald FBA

Languages, scripts, inscriptions, and rock art in ancient Arabia and its environs; ancient literacy and its uses; the history of ancient Arabian cultures and of the ancient Near Eastern nomads

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Dr Annabel Teh Gallop FBA

Writing traditions, book cultures and the art of the Qur’an in Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean world; Malay and Indonesian manuscripts, letters, documents and seals, and comparative Islamic diplomatics

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