Laurel Bestock
Laurel Bestock | |
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| Citizenship | American |
| Occupation(s) | Archaeologist Egyptologist |
| Title | Joukowsky Family Associate Professor of Archaeology and the Ancient World and Egyptology and Assyriology, Brown University |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Brown University (B.A.) New York University Institute of Fine Arts (M.A., Ph.D.) |
| Thesis | The Development of Royal Funerary Cult at Abydos: Two Funerary Enclosures from the Reign of King Aha |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Archaeology of Ancient Egypt and the Nile Valley |
| Sub-discipline | Kingship, violence, art, monumental architecture, and cultural interactions |
| Institutions | Brown University New York University Institute of Fine Arts |
Laurel Bestock is an archaeologist and Egyptologist, whose research focus is on kingship, violence, and art and architecture of ancient Egypt, Sudan, and the region of the Nile Valley. She is the Joukowsky Family Associate Professor of Archaeology and the Ancient World and Egyptology and Assyriology at Brown University, and she is also Executive Director of Excavations at Abydos and Visiting Research Professor at The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.