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Professor Geoffrey Almeric Thorndike MARTIN MA PhD LittD FSA
First elected to the Fellowship, as Lady Budge Research Fellow in Egyptology, in 1966
Fellow Commoner 1998
Honorary Keeper of the Archives
Honorary Keeper of the Plate
Acting Praelector 2009
Field Director, The Cambridge Expedition to the Valley of the Kings
Email: gthorndike "at" hotmail.com
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From 1970 Professor Martin taught Egyptology at University College London, where he was ultimately Edwards Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology. He is now Emeritus. He has participated in and directed fieldwork and epigraphic missions (1963 to the present) in The Sudan (Buhen) and in Egypt (Saqqara, Amarna and The Valley of Kings, Luxor).
Author of numerous monographs (mostly concerning results of archaeological fieldwork, epigraphy and sigillography) and papers on Egyptological themes.