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James P. Allen is Wilbour Professor of Egyptology at Brown University. He has served as Cairo Director of the American Research Center in Egypt and Curator of Egyptian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and is currently President of the International Association of Egyptologists. Sally-Ann Ashton is Senior Assistant Keeper in the Department of Antiquities at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. She studied Ptolemaic royal sculpture for her doctorate, which she received from King's College London in 1999, and has since worked on two special exhibitions relating to sculpture – Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth (2000–1) and Roman Egyptomania (2003). Her current research interests include African-centered approaches to Egyptology and the role of museums in prisons. Michel Baud gained his PhD at the Sorbonne University (1994) for a thesis devoted to the royal family of the Old Kingdom, and he has published extensively on the administration and society of this period. He is a former scientific member of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology (IFAO), Cairo (1994–8), and is currently head of the Sudan and Nubia section of the Louvre Museum. He directed the IFAO excavations in the elite necropolis of Dje-defre/Radjedef at Abu Rawash (2001–7) and is now involved in the Louvre project at Saqqara, Akhethetep area. Andrew Bednarski is a Research Egyptologist at the American ... log in or subscribe to read full text