Aidan Dodson


Aidan Mark Dodson is an English Egyptologist and historian. He has been honorary professor of Egyptology at the University of Bristol since 1 August 2018.

Academic career

Dodson, born in London on 11 September 1962, studied at Langley Grammar School, before moving to Collingwood College, Durham. He completed a BA at the University of Liverpool, and an MPhil and PhD at Christ's College, Cambridge. He began teaching at the University of Bristol in October 1996, also holding the post of Simpson Professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo from January to July 2013. His primary research interests concern Ancient Egypt, with a particular focus on dynastic history and chronology, tomb architecture, sarcophagus and coffin design, canopic equipment, and the history of Egyptology; he is also an historian of late 19th and early 20th century navies, and has written on the royal tombs of Great Britain.
He is the author of over twenty books, and 300 articles and reviews.
Dodson was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2003. His wife is Dyan Hilton.

Published books

Egyptology

  1. ' JACF: Vol 2 pp.58-59
  2. Egyptian Rock-cut Tombs
  3. The Canopic Equipment of the Kings of Egypt
  4. Monarchs of the Nile
  5. After the Pyramids
  6. The Hieroglyphs of Ancient Egypt
  7. The Pyramids of Ancient Egypt
  8. The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt
  9. Ancient Egypt: Pyramids and Hieroglyphs
  10. The Tomb in Ancient Egypt
  11. Amarna Sunset: Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian Counter-Reformation
  12. Poisoned Legacy: The Fall of the Nineteenth Egyptian Dynasty
  13. Afterglow of Empire: Egypt from the Fall of the New Kingdom to the Saite Renaissance
  14. ', 2014
  15. © Copyright 2015 National Museums of World Culture
  16. The Royal Tombs of Ancient Egypt
  17. Sethy I, King of Egypt: His Life and Afterlife
  18. Rameses III, King of Egypt: His Life and Afterlife
  19. Nefertiti, Queen and Pharaoh of Egypt: Her Life and Afterlife
  20. The First Pharaohs, Their Lives and Afterlives
  21. Tutankhamun, King of Egypt: His Life and Afterlife
  22. The Nubian Pharaohs of Egypt: Their Lives and Afterlives
  23. Thutmose III and Hatshepsut, Pharaohs of Egypt: Their Lives and Afterlives
  24. The Libyan Pharaohs of Egypt: Their Lives and Afterlives

Other books

  1. The Royal Tombs of Great Britain
  2. The Kaiser's Battlefleet: German Capital Ships 1871-1918
  3. Before the Battecruiser: The Big Cruiser in the World's Navies 1865-1910
  4. German Battleship Helgoland
  5. Spoils of War: The Fate of Enemy Fleets after the Two World Wars
  6. The Kaiser's Cruisers 1871-1918
  7. The Windfall Battleships: Agincourt, Canada, Erin, Eagle'' and the Balkan and Latin American Arms Races''

Articles

  • Aidan Dodson, “ in THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES,, VOLUME XLV, Toronto Canada, 2018-2019
  • Aidan Dodson, in The Ostracon: The Journal of the Egyptian Study Society, Vol.15, No.2, Summer 2004, pp.3-7