Dr. Maarten J. van Raven

About Dr. Maarten J. van Raven

Curator at the National Archaeological Museum, Leiden, the Netherlands and Egyptologist.

Additional inserts on the book of dead, and the gold bracelet of Tutankhamun as well as translation provided by Team Farlang

Dr. van Raven is the curator (since 1978) of the department of Egyptology at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden. In addition to his work at the museum, he has been active as an archeologist in Saqqara since 1975. In Saqqara, he has been working (as joint field director since 1999)[1] on a New Kingdom archeological burial site, a cooperation of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden and the Egypt Exploration Society (1975–1998) and Leiden University (1999-)[2] In September 2012 he was also appointed as extraordinary professor 'Museology of Ancient Egypt' at Leiden University.

Articles written by Dr. Maarten J. van Raven