Ian Shaw
Egyptologist and archaeologist
Ian Shaw is a British Egyptologist at the University of Liverpool. He has excavated sites across Egypt and edited major reference works on the ancient world.
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British Born 1961
About Ian Shaw
Ian Shaw was born in 1961 and earned his PhD from the University of Cambridge. He works in Egyptian archaeology at the University of Liverpool and directs several archaeological projects in Egypt. His fieldwork was largely centered on el-Amarna, and he has also worked in the Valley of the Kings. More recently he has excavated mining and quarrying sites from several periods of ancient Egyptian history, studying how craftsmen and labourers worked. He has also written on ancient Egyptian warfare. Shaw has edited encyclopedia-style reference works on ancient Egypt. His titles include The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt and The Oxford Handbook of Egyptology.