Dr. Kent R. Weeks (born December 16, 1941) is an American Egyptologist.
He was born in the town of Everett, Washington, United States, where he remembers deciding to be an Egyptologist at the age of eight. Weeks attended R. A. Long High School in Longview, Washington, and graduated in 1959. He studied anthropology at University of Washington in Seattle, from where he obtained a master's degree. He visited Egypt for the first time in 1963 and was ...
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Dr. Kent R. Weeks (born December 16, 1941) is an American Egyptologist.
He was born in the town of Everett, Washington, United States, where he remembers deciding to be an Egyptologist at the age of eight. Weeks attended R. A. Long High School in Longview, Washington, and graduated in 1959. He studied anthropology at University of Washington in Seattle, from where he obtained a master's degree. He visited Egypt for the first time in 1963 and was active in digs in Nubia associated with relocation work necessitated by the building of the Aswan Dam and the flooding of the Nile Valley to create Lake Nasser. In 1970 he earned a doctorate in Egyptology from Yale University.
Dr. Weeks professional career began with his appointment as Assistant Curator of Egyptian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art then assistant Professor at the University of Chicago and Director of its Institute in Luxor (Chicago House), then professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and in 1988 became a...
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