Maarten Raven

January Maarten Raven (* 1953 in Utrecht) is a Dutch Egyptologist.

Life

After graduating from high school urban Utrecht Raven studied Egyptology and art history at the University of Leiden. In 1984 he received his doctorate with a thesis entitled " Symbols of resurrection: three studies in ancient Egyptian iconography ".

Raven is since 1978 Head of Egypt at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden ( German: National Museum of Antiquities ) in Leiden. In addition to his work at the Museum, he has been active since 1975 at the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara. There he works (since 1999 Prospector ) in the collaboration of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, the Egypt Exploration Society ( 1975-1998 ) and the University of Leiden (1999). In September 2012, he was appointed professor ' Museology from the Old Egypt ' Leiden University.

Raven has written widely about the museum collection of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden and his fieldwork in Saqqara.

Works (selection)

• Life and Death in Ancient Egypt: Masterpieces from the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, S. Peschel and H. Schneider, Hamm 1999, ISBN 3-9805069-9-1

• Papyrus: van bies boekrol dead; met een bloemlezing uit de Leidse papyrusverzameling, Zutphen 1982
• The tomb of Iurudef, a Memphite official in the reign of Ramesses II ( 57th Excavation Memoir, Leiden / London, 1991)
• The tomb of Maya and Meryt, II: objects and skeletal remains ( 65th Excavation Memoir, Leiden / London 2001)
• J. H. Insinger ( Introduced and annotated by MJ Raven ), " In het land of Nijlcataracten " (1883 ), ( MVEOL 34, Leuven / Leiden 2004)
• Egyptian magic, het toverboek van Thoth ( Walburg Pers, Leiden, 2010)