Kara Cooney
Egyptologist and university professor
Kara Cooney is an Egyptologist and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and the author of When Women Ruled the World.
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American Born 1972 in Houston, Texas, United States
About Kara Cooney
Kara Cooney is a professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture at UCLA. Her research covers coffins, craft production and economies in the ancient world. She also studies death preparations, beliefs about the afterlife and gender. She earned a PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 2002. Cooney has taken part in excavations in Egypt, including at the artisans' village of Deir el Medina. She has also hosted the Discovery Channel series Out of Egypt. Her book When Women Ruled the World is about six queens of Egypt.