Richard B. Parkinson (b 1963) is a British academic of Egyptology who studied at Oxford University and who has been, since 1991, a curator of the British Museum, where he is the Assistant Keeper of Ancient Egyptian pharaonic culture.[1] He holds an honorary degree from the New Bulgarian University, Sofia, and is a visiting lecturer at the University of Goettingen and University of Koeln.[1]
Parkinson's main area of research is Ancient Egyptian literature.[1] At the British Museum, he is also responsible for the maintenance and publication of ancient papyri written in Egyptian hieroglyphs and cursive hieratic, as well as inscribed material such as the Rosetta stone.[1] He is the supervisor of archived material, collections, and epigraphy, and is the curator of the Nebamun wall-paintings.[1]
Monographs include: The Tale of Sinuhe and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems (Oxford World Classics); Poetry and Culture in Middle Kingdom Egypt (Continuum); Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry: Among Other Histories (Blackwell-Wiley); Voices from Ancient Egypt (BM Press); The Painted Tomb-chapel of Nebamun (BM Press); The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant (Griffith Institute).
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