Maarten Raven


Maarten J. Raven is a Dutch Egyptologist.
Raven is the curator of the department of Egyptology at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden. In addition to his work at the museum, he has been active as an archeologist in Saqqara since 1975. In Saqqara, he has been working on a New Kingdom archeological burial site, a cooperation of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden and the Egypt Exploration Society and Leiden University In September 2012 he was also appointed as extraordinary professor 'Museology of Ancient Egypt' at Leiden University.
Raven studied Egyptian languages, art history and archeology at Leiden University, and wrote a PhD thesis in 1984. Raven published extensively on the collections of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden and his field work at Saqqara.

Publications

  • The tomb of Iurudef, a Memphite official in the reign of Ramesses II
  • The tomb of Maya and Meryt, II: objects and skeletal remains
  • J.H. Insinger, "In het land der Nijlcataracten",
  • Egyptian mummies, radiological atlas of the collections in the National Museum of Antiquities at Leiden
  • The tomb of Pay and Raia at Saqqara
  • Egyptische Magie, het toverboek van Thot
  • ''The Memphite tomb of Horemheb, commander in chief of Tutankhamun, V: the forecourt and the area south of the tomb, with some notes on the tomb of Tia''