The topic

This lecture will present findings from the recent excavations at North Saqqara conducted by the joint mission from the University of Tsukuba, Japan, and the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, Egypt. The primary goal of this mission was to trace the development of this ancient necropolis throughout history.

New evidence indicates that this funerary landscape was utilized for more than 3,000 years, encompassing tombs from the Early Dynastic Period and Old Kingdom, and extending through the New Kingdom and into the Græco-Roman Period.

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 The speaker

Dr. Nozomu Kawai is a professor of Egyptology at the University of Tsukuba in Japan and the director of the Japanese-Egyptian mission to North Saqqara. He earned his B.A. and M.A. in archaeology at Waseda University and completed his Ph.D. in Egyptology at Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, Maryland, in 2006. His dissertation was entitled, "Studies in the Reign of Tutankhamun," supervised by Dr. Betsy M. Bryan.

Dr. Kawai has also taught at Waseda University and Kanazawa University, and was a William Kelly Simpson Visiting Professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo. He specializes in the history, art, and archaeology of the New Kingdom in Egypt, particularly emphasizing the period from the late 18th dynasty into the 19th dynasty.