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John Baines is a retired Oxford professor and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has published several books and articles on Ancient Egyptian art, religion, literature, and society.
John Baines is a renowned scholar of Egyptian art, literature, religion, and society. He has published widely on various topics and is currently working on a volume on Egyptian biographical self-presentation and a synthesis of studies on Egyptian kingship.
Emeritus Fellow. Introduction. I grew up in Kent, where I still have family. I did both my BA (in what was then called Ancient Egyptian) and graduate study in Oxford (New College, Linacre, and Worcester), moving to the University of Durham as Lecturer in Egyptology in 1970.
May 17, 2007 · A generously illustrated selection of John Baines’s influential writings on two core areas of ancient Egyptian civilization: the role of writing, which was very different in antiquity from what is familiar in the modern world, and the importance of visual culture.
John Robert Baines, FBA (born 17 March 1946) is a retired British Egyptologist and academic. From 1976 to 2013, he was a Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford and a fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford .
John Baines is a Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. He studies Egyptian art, literature, religion, and society, and engages with different disciplines and regions of the world.
Egyptology: art, archaeology, writing systems, religion, literature, social forms; comparative & theoretical study of early civilisations. John Baines was formerly Professor of Egyptology in the University of Oxford. He taught formerly at the University of Durham.
