Nicholas Brown
Nicholas (Nick) Brown is an American Egyptologist who has worked as an archaeologist in Egypt since 2011. He received his MA degree in Egyptology from the American University in Cairo in 2016, and his PhD degree from UCLA in 2024. Nick’s primary research focuses on royal funerary rituals and burial rites in New Kingdom Egypt (ca. 1550-1070 BC), via the archaeological, textual, and art historical remains from the Valley of the Kings. Additionally, he works as a settlement archaeologist and studies the use and perception of ancient Egypt within modern contexts.
His excavation experience includes working at numerous archaeological sites around Egypt, including in Aswan (at Elephantine Island and Wadi el-Hudi) as well as funerary sites in Luxor, Amarna, and in Sudan. Currently he is the co-director of excavations at the site of Deir el-Ballas– an ancient royal palace and military outpost. With his co-director, Peter Lacovara, he is investigating the archaeology of urbanism and daily life at this settlement site. Nick also runs an ongoing research project in the Valley of the Kings to reexamine and republish the tomb of Thutmose IV (KV43).
Nick is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at Yale University and spends his time between New Haven, CT and Cairo, Egypt. While at Yale, Nick is expanding the scope of his PhD research that will be published as his first monograph, The Falcon Has Flown: Funerary Ritual and Burial Rites in the Valley of the Kings. Additionally, Nick will be working on an edited volume of the Deir el-Ballas settlement archaeology, to publish the original archive from the excavations of the site in 1900 alongside the Deir el-Ballas Expedition’s latest archaeological investigations since 2017.
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