Aidan Dodson was born in Chelsea, London on September 11, 1962. His early education took place at Langley Grammar School in Berkshire. He then attended Collingsworth College
and the University of Durham before entering the University of Liverpool where he earned his Bachelors
Degree in archeology of the eastern Mediterranean in 1985. He later earned a Masters Degree in museum practice and archeology and received a doctorate in Egyptology both from Christ's College
and Cambridge University.
Dr. Dodson's area of expertise is in Egyptian funerary equipment and architecture in the second to third Intermediate Periods. He also studies European medieval royal burial practices as well as the history of Egyptology and Egyptian collections. He participated in two excavations early in his career, the first on the Isle of Man in 1983 of a Viking/Medieval site.
The second was in Hampshire in 1985 of an Iron Age hill fort. However, most of his time has been devoted to research and writing. Since 1981 Dr. Dodson has published 97 articles in various journals and magazines, written or co-written 13 books, and given numerous lectures and delivered papers all over the world. Dr. Dodson was married to the Egyptologist Dyan Hilton on his birthday in 1999 and they reside in England.
Dr. Dodson is a member in several societies including the Egypt Exploration Society, International Naval Research Organization, Sudan Archaeological Research Society, International Association of Egyptologists, and the American Research Centre in Egypt. Dr. Dodson is also a contributing editor of KMT: A Modern Journal of Egyptology.
Dr. Dodson is currently the Visiting Fellow in the Department of Archeology at the University of Bristol where he teaches Egyptology at the undergraduate and extramural certificate levels. He is currently involved in a project to study and catalog the coffins and related equipment of the pharaoh Tutankhamun.
Monographs written by Aiden Dodson:
1991 Egyptian Rock-cut Tombs (Princes Risborough: Shire).
1994 The Canopic Equipment of the Kings of Egypt (London: Kegan Paul International).
1995 Monarchs of the Nile (London: Rubicon).
1997 Royal Mummies in the Egyptian Museum, with S. Ikram (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press).
1998 The Mummy in Ancient Egypt, with S. Ikram (London: Thames and Hudson).
1998 Revision of C.Aldred, The Egyptians (London: Thames & Hudson);.
2000 After the Pyramids (London: Rubicon).
2001a Monarchs of the Nile, 2nd Edition (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press).
2001b The Hieroglyphs of Ancient Egypt (London: New Holland).
2001c Revision of C.Aldred, Egiptie√iai (Vilnius:Alma Littera).
2002 De Hierogliefen van het oude Egypte (Utrecht: Veltman Uitgevers).
2003a Los Jeroglíficos del Antiguo Egipto (Madrid: Editorial Libsa).
[200x] The Coffins and Canopic Equipment from the Tomb of Tutankhamun (Oxford: Griffith Institute).
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All of the information and the image are courtesy of Dr. Aidan Dodson.
Written by: Holly Laite, 2002