Luigi Prada was educated in both Egyptology and Classics, firstly in Italy and then in Oxford. He works primarily on textual and cultural-historical studies, with a focus on the later phases of Egypt's history and language(s) / scripts. He has held academic positions in the UK, Germany, and Denmark, and is now Assistant Professor of Egyptology at Uppsala University, Sweden. He is also active in the field, both in Egypt as Assistant Director of the Oxford Expedition to Elkab (Ashmolean Museum), and in the Sudan, and is the president of Associazione Amici Collaboratori del Museo Egizio di Torino (Society of Friends of the Museo Egizio, Turin).

Campbell Price is Curator of Egypt and Sudan at the University of Manchester's Manchester Museum, one of the UK’s largest Egyptology collections. He has a PhD in Egyptology from the University of Liverpool, where he is an Honorary Research Fellow. His research focusses on elite monuments of the First Millennium BCE, particularly on sculpture, and the representation of ancient Egypt in museums. Recent publications include: Pocket Museum: Ancient Egypt (2018); Golden Mummies of Egypt: Interpreting identities from the Graeco-Roman Period (2023); and Brief Histories: Ancient Egypt (2024). Campbell is Chair of Trustees of the Egypt Exploration Society.

Ian Shaw is Senior Research Fellow in Egyptian Archaeology at the University of Liverpool. His research focuses primarily on ancient human activity in urban contexts and remote desert environments. His fieldwork includes excavation at Tell el-Amarna, Memphis, and Gurob, as well as survey and excavation at many Egyptian quarrying and mining sites. His publications include The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt (2000), Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology (2000, co-edited with Paul Nicholson), Hatnub: Quarrying travertine in ancient Egypt (2010), Ancient Egyptian Technology and Innovation: Transformations in Pharaonic material culture (2012), and The Oxford Handbook of Egyptology (2020; co-edited with Elizabeth Bloxam).

Heba Abd el Gawad an Egyptian Egyptologist, received her PhD from Durham University. She specialises in the history of Egyptian archaeology and Egyptian perceptions and representations of ancient Egypt. Heba is a researcher for the AHRC-funded project: 'Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage: Views from Egypt' at the UCL Institute of Archaeology, which aims to amplify the voices, visibility, and validity of modern Egyptian communities in UK museums. She co-curated the Two Temple Place 2016 exhibition "Beyond Beauty: Transforming the body in ancient Egypt', and is also project curator for the British Museum's Asyut Project. More recently she guest curated the 'Listen to her! Turning up the Volume on Egypt’s Ordinary Women' exhibition at the UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. Heba was selected as one of the most influential 21 Egyptian women in 2021 for her community work in the heritage sector.

Elizabeth Baquedano is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the UCL Institute of Archaeology, where she also obtained her PhD. She was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, London in 2021. Elizabeth gives regular gallery talks and lectures at the British Museum and around the world. Some of her publications include Tezcatlipoca: Trickster and supreme deity (2014) and Aztec Sculpture (1994), chapters in Los Animales y el Recinto Sagrado de Tenochtitlan (2022) and Living with the Dead: Mortuary ritual in Mesoamerica (2011). She is also co-editor of Birds and Beasts of Ancient Mesoamerica (2023).

Aidan Dodson is Honorary Professor of Egyptology at the University of Bristol, where he has taught since 1996. A graduate of Liverpool (BA) and Cambridge (MPhil, PhD) he was Simpson Professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo for the Spring of 2013, and Chair of Trustees of the Egypt Exploration Society from 2011 to 2016. Elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2003, he is the author of over 20 books, including on the royal tombs of Egypt and on those of the UK.

Sarah K. Doherty is a Ceramicist for the Amarna Project's Great Aten Temple, a Buildings Archaeologist in the UK Commercial Archaeology Sector, and is an Archaeology Tutor at Oxford University. She undertook her BA and MA at UCL, and her PhD at Cardiff University focussing on Egyptian ceramics and technology. This was published in 2015 as The Origins and Use of the Potter's Wheel in Ancient Egypt. Sarah's research interests include pottery, settlement archaeology, experimental reconstruction of ancient craft, and ancient technology. Sarah has worked at a wide variety of sites in Europe Egypt, and the Sudan, including Gebel el-Silsila, Heit el-Gurob, Amara West, Amarna, and the Valley of the Kings. Sarah is at her happiest digging up complete huge pots in New Kingdom sites.

Ken Griffin is the Curator of the Egypt Centre, Swansea University. Prior to this, he was the Collections Access Manager (2019–2022) at the museum. Ken is a former lecturer in Egyptology (2015–2018) and the coordinating tutor of Egyptology (2003–2014) with the Department of Adult Continuing Education (DACE), both at Swansea University. Since 2010, he has participated in fieldwork in Egypt (Abydos, Valley of the Kings, Western Thebes) and Sudan (Sai Island). He is the author of the monograph All the Rḫyt-people Adore: The role of the Rekhyt-people in Egyptian religion published in 2018 (Golden House Publications), as well as three edited books, and over 20 articles.

John J. Johnston is a freelance Egyptologist, Classicist, and cultural historian. His research interests encompass mortuary belief and practice, gender, and sexuality, Hellenistic and Roman Egypt, the history of Egyptology, and the reception of ancient Egypt in the modern world. John has lectured extensively at various institutions across the UK and Europe. A former Vice-Chair of the Egypt Exploration Society, John also served on the Editorial Board of the journal Egyptian Archaeology (2011–2020) and has co-edited several volumes, including Narratives of Egypt and the Ancient Near East: Literary and linguistic approaches (2011), A Good Scribe and an Exceedingly Wise Man (2014), and a collection of classic mummy fiction, Unearthed (2013).

Barry Kemp (1940 - 2024) was Emeritus Professor of Egyptology at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge. He was Field Director at Tell el-Amarna from 1977 - 2024, pioneering excavations formerly for the Egypt Exploration Society, and subsequently as The Amarna Project supported by the Amarna Trust. Among his important publications are Amarna Reports, I–VI (1984–1995), and Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a civilisation (2006).

Iwona Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin is Lecturer at the University of Exeter, Honorary Associate Researcher at the University of Manchester and Honorary Curator of Human Remains at the Manchester Museum. Over the past 20 years, she has worked extensively in Egypt (Tell el-Farkha, Saqqara, and Thebes) and the Sudan (Dongola Reach, Hamadab near Meroe, and Jebel Moya) in collaboration with multidisciplinary research teams, investigating various aspects of life and death of ancient populations. Her research is focussed on the relationship between humans and their environment in the Nile Valley, health, disability, and care, as well as ancient burial practices. Recent publications include chapters in: Early Makuria Research Project: El-Zuma cemetery (Vol. 1) and Life Histories of Theban Tombs: Transdisciplinary investigations of a cluster of rock-cut tombs at Sheikh 'Abd el-Qurna.

Claire Malleson is Assistant Professor of Archaeology at the American University of Beirut. After completing a Diploma in Egyptology at Birkbeck College, and many BSS summer school courses, she studied Egyptian archaeology at the University of Liverpool. Claire completed her PhD in 2012, which was published as The Fayum Landscape: Ten thousand years of archaeology, texts, and traditions in Egypt by AUC press in 2019. Since 2003, she has worked on excavations at Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham, Medinet el-Gurob, Giza, Ain Sukhna, Elephantine, Sais, Naukratis, Tell el-Borg, and Tell el-Retaba, specialising in the study of ancient plant remains with focus on the study of ancient Egyptian agriculture.

Bill Manley is a best-selling author, who has taught at Bloomsbury Summer School since the 1990s. He was formerly Senior Curator for Ancient Egypt at National Museums Scotland and taught Egyptology and Coptic at the Universities of Glasgow, Liverpool, and London. He works with the C2 Project: Royal Cache Wadi survey, Bill is Honorary President of Egyptology Scotland, a contributor to the Coptic Magical Papyri Project, and Co-Director of Egiptología Complutense. Bill has spoken at several international book festivals, including The Sunday Times Literary Festival, and his latest book, The Oldest Book in the World, will be published by Thames and Hudson in June.

Lidija McKnight holds a BSc in Archaeology from the University of York and a PhD in Biomedical Egyptology from the University of Manchester. Her major research interest is the application of non-invasive imaging to human and animal mummies. She is currently completing her third post-doctoral research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council investigating so-called ‘fake’ mummies. Lidija is founder and curator of the Ancient Egyptian Animal Bio Bank, Honorary Curator of Archaeozoology at the Manchester Museum, and project curator for the touring exhibition Gifts for the Gods: Animal mummies revealed.

Franziska Naether (Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities) is adjunct assistant professor at Leipzig University in Germany (Egyptological Institute / Egyptian Museum) and Stellenbosch University in South Africa (Department of Ancient Studies). She is head of the Digital Rosetta Stone Project and has published widely on ancient religion, magic, and literature. Her other research interests include the history and society of Graeco-Roman Egypt, Museology, reception of Egypt, and Digital Humanities.

Jack Neighbour is a PhD student of Ancient History at Cardiff University, where he specialises in Achaemenid concepts of the body and teaches seminars on introductory Old Persian. A graduate of Leiden University (MA) and Cardiff University (BA), he has studied Ancient Near Eastern History and aspires to become an independent postdoctoral researcher after graduation. Other interests include Old Iranian linguistics and educational outreach.

Massimiliano Nuzzolo received his PhD in 2010 from l’Orientale University of Naples, Italy, with a thesis on the sun temples of the Fifth dynasty and the royal ideology of the Old Kingdom. He joined the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo (IFAO) where he conducted research on the spatial distribution of Old Kingdom tombs in the Memphite area. In 2016, he became a Research Associate at the Czech Institute of Egyptology, Charles University Prague, where he directs an interdisciplinary research project on the rise and development of the solar cult. Since 2010, he co-directs the Italian archeological expedition at the sun temple of Niuserra at Abu Ghurab. Among his publications is the co-authored Fifth Dynasty Sun Temples: Kingship, Architecture, and Religion in Third Millennium BC Egypt (2019).

Cecilia Pardo is an archaeologist and curator. Between 2006 and 2019, she worked at the Museo de Arte de Lima, where she curated more than 15 exhibitions and published on various topics relating to pre-Columbian history. Her exhibition project include Modelling the World: Images of pre-Columbian architecture, Nasca, and Khipus: Our history in knots, some of which then travelled to museums in New York, Zurich, Bonn, and Madrid. In 2020, she joined the British Museum, where she was responsible for the exhibition Peru: A journey in time and the newly opened permanent display of Peruvian and Andean culture. She has published extensively on the history of Andean collections and museums, and most recently the exhibition catalogue co-edited with Dr Jago Cooper: Peru: A journey in time (British Museum Press). Cecilia has an MA in Museum Studies from UCL and obtained her PhD from the University of East Anglia.

José-Ramón Pérez-Accino is Senior Lecturer in Egyptology and Ancient History at the Complutense University of Madrid. He specialises in Egyptian literature, texts, and the intellectual world of the ancient Egyptians. In addition to being Co-Director of Egiptología Complutense with Bill Manley, he conducts fieldwork in Egypt, including at Ehnasya el-Medina (Herakleopolis Magna) and Western Thebes, where he is now Co-Director of the C2 Project: Royal Cache Wadi survey. He has taught Egyptology for the University of London's Birkbeck College and University College London. He has directed many highly acclaimed courses for BSS, often regarded by our students as some of the most challenging and thoughtful courses we offer.

Anna Stevens is an archaeologist who specialises in the study of urban and non-elite life in ancient Egypt. She has worked at sites including Amarna, Sesebi, Amara West, and in the Dakhleh Oasis. Her publications include Private Religion at Amarna, Akhenaten’s Workers, and the multi-authored Amarna: A Guide to the Ancient City of Akhetaten. She is Lecturer in Archaeology at Monash University, Assistant Director of the Amarna Project (University of Cambridge) and in 2023 will be Simpson Visitor Professor in Egyptology at the American University in Cairo.

Matt Szafran is an independent researcher specialising in the study of ancient tools and technologies. His current research focusses on the manufacture and use of stone palettes in Predynastic Egypt, using experimental archaeology and advanced imaging technologies, such as microscopy and Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) to complement textual studies. Matt has lectured on predynastic palettes, assisted in the teaching of RTI workshops, has published in peer-reviewed journals and magazines, and is currently writing a book discussing the possible uses of predynastic palettes.