Professor Henry Smith FBA

Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1985
Year of death
2024

Last post

University College London Emeritus Professor of Egyptology

Past appointments

University College London Edwards Professor of Egyptology

1970 - 1986

University College London Honorary Curator, Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology

1963 - 1970

Christ's College University of Cambridge Budge Fellow in Egyptology

1955 - 1963

University of Cambridge Lecturer in Egyptology

1954 - 1963

Publications

The Sacred Animal Necropolis at North Saqqara: the Archaeological Report 3 vols, (2006)

The Anubieion at Saqqara I: the settlement and the temple precinct (1988)

Saqqara demotic papyri I (1983)

The fortress of Buhen (2 vols) (1976, 1979)

Other Fellows of the British Academy

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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Professor Francesca Orsini FBA

Literatures of South Asia; multilingual and located approach to world literature; book history in South Asia

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Professor Gavin Flood FBA

Hindu religious literature in the Middle Ages (post-Gupta period); comparative religion, with particular reference to Hinduism and Christianity; philosophical phenomenology and hermeneutics

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