Autor/-in: Allen James P.

James P. Allen is Charles Edwin Wilbour Professor of Egyptology at Brown University, a position he took up in 2007 after serving as curator in the Department of Egyptian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. He has published extensively on ancient Egyptian grammar and texts, including Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyph. (now, in its third edition, the most widely-used teaching grammar) and The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts. (a complete translation, now in its second edition). He is one of a handful of scholars currently engaged in a radical revision of our understanding of the ancient Egyptian language.