Robert Partridge

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Egyptologist, author, and lecturer, Robert (Bob) Partridge is the editor of the U.K. based magazine Ancient Egypt magazine, produced six times a year, the only UK magazine concentrating solely on ancient Egypt and sold worldwide.

He lectures on many different aspects of ancient Egypt to Egyptology Societies within the U.K and abroad.

He is on the Committee of the Northern Branch of the Egypt Exploration Society^[1] and is Chairman of the Manchester Ancient Egypt Society^[2], the largest and oldest of the many provincial Egyptology Societies in the UK.

He owns and runs the Ancient Egypt Picture Library and is a photographer with a collection of over 30,000 images of the ancient and more recent archaeological sites. These images are used for his lectures and courses and also supplied to publishers and television companies.

Partridge organises specialist trips to Egypt to visit the main, but also some of the more obscure and less visited sites, acting as team leader. He is also a guest Egyptologist on tours for Ancient World Tours.

He has been an Egyptological advisor to several Television programmes and also to filmmakers, including appearances in documentaries. He has also helped with museum exhibits, providing images and text, at the Egypt Centre, Swansea, and the Bagshaw Museum in Yorkshire^[3].

He has been quoted by the BBC on their news website ^[4] and was thanked for his assistance in the article Khufu Knew the Sphinx by Colin Reader ^[5]

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• Faces of Pharaohs: Royal Mummies and Coffins from Ancient Thebes. (1994)
• Transport in Ancient Egypt. (1996)
• O Horrable Murder: The Trial, Execution and Burial of King Charles I. (1998)
• Fighting Pharaohs: Weapons and Warfare in Ancient Egypt. (2002)

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