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also excavated in Nubia during the Aswan Dam salvage
campaign of the 1960’s where he served as Director of
the Gebel Adda Expedition for the American Research
Center in Egypt. In Egypt he worked at a number of sites,
the most important being at the Dakhleh Oasis and in
the ancient town of Illahun.
His research and publications were also impressive and
included work on the rediscovery of one of the Punt
reliefs of the temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahri,
the authoritative entry on scarabs in the 1968 edition
of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, a series of excavation
reports and a great number of studies on a wide array
of Egyptological topics.
Born June 28, 1934 at Richmond, New Hampshire, he received
most of his early education abroad, as his father served
in the American Diplomatic Corps. After completing his
B.A. and his Master's Degree at the Oriental Institute
of the University of Chicago in 1959, he spent three
years as Director of the American Research Center in
Egypt (ARCE), in Cairo. He returned to the United States
to complete his Ph.D. at Yale University. In 1968 he
became Assistant Professor of Egyptology at Harvard.
He then moved to Canada to the Royal Ontario Museum,
Toronto, in 1970 where he was appointed Associate Curator,
and later full Curator in the Egyptian Department, as
well as Associate Professor of Egyptology in the Department
of Near Eastern Studies of the University of Toronto.
His abilities as a teacher were celebrated throughout
the field. In discussions with one of his prized pupils,
Dr. Ron Leprohon, about bequeathing his extensive library
where it would do the most good, the suggestion of Emory
University was enthusiastically welcomed.
Nick, as he was fondly known died on May 19, 2004, after
a long and courageous battle with cancer and will always
be remembered for his ever-present good humor, his great
scholarship and the generosity illustrated by the gift
of this great library.
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