The Arts of Making in Ancient Egypt

Gianluca Miniaci is Associate Professor in Egyptology at the University of Pisa, Honorary Researcher at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL - London and Chercheur associe at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris. He is currently co-director of the archaeological mission at Zawyet Sultan (Menya, Egypt) and principal investigator for the project PROCESS (fingerprints on clay figurines). He is author of several volumes, including Rishi Coffins (2011), The Middle Kingdom Ramesseum Papyri Tomb (2021) and The Treasure of the Egyptian Queen Ahhotep (2022) and more than 100 scientific articles. Dr. Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia (PhD in Egyptology, 1995) is a CNRS senior researcher at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne, as well as lecturer on social and economic history of ancient Egypt at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. He has published extensively on the administration, socio-economic history, and landscape organization of ancient Egypt, usually in a comparative perspective with other civilizations of the ancient world, and has organized several conferences on these topics.

Recent publications include Dynamics of Production in the Ancient Near East, 1300-500 BC (2016), L'Egypte des pharaons. De Narmer a Diocletien (3150 av. J.-C.-284 apr. J.-C.) (2016) and Ancient Egyptian Administration (2013).

He is also chief editor of The Journal of Egyptian History (Brill) and area editor ("economy") of the UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. Prof. Stephen Quirke is Edwards Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology at the UCL Institute of Archaeology; his research is on hieratic writing, Middle Kingdom social history, and history of archaeology and collections from Egypt. From 1999 to 2013 he was curator at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. Andreas Stauder is Professor of Egyptology at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes/PSL Research University in Paris. He was previously a researcher with the Swiss National Science Foundation and the University of Basel, and a post-doctoral fellow at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. He directs the project "Scripta-PSL. History and Practices of Writing" (2017-) and is a scientific co-editor of the section "Language" for the UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology (UEE). He has previously co-directed the module "Materiality and Semantics of Writing" in the National Centre of Competence in Research "eikones" (2013-2017, SNSF and University of Basel) and directed the SNSF-project "The Old Egyptian Verb. Functions in text" (2012-2016). He is the author of The Earlier Egyptian Passive. Voice and Perspective (2014) and Linguistic Dating of Middle Egyptian Literary Texts (2013).