Stuart Tyson Smith (born 1960) is an

Egyptologist Egyptology (from ''Egypt'' and Greek , '' -logia''; ar, علم المصريات) is the study of ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, architecture and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religious ...

and professor in the

Anthropology Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of be ...

department at the

University of California, Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Barbara, California with 23,196 undergraduates and 2,983 graduate students enrolled in 2021–2022. It is part of the ...

. His specialty is the interaction between ancient Egypt and

Nubia Nubia () (Nobiin language, Nobiin: Nobīn, ) is a region along the Nile river encompassing the area between the Cataracts of the Nile, first cataract of the Nile (just south of Aswan in southern Egypt) and the confluence of the Blue Nile, Blue ...

. Smith is known for reconstruction of the

ancient Egyptian language The Egyptian language or Ancient Egyptian ( ) is a dead Afro-Asiatic language that was spoken in ancient Egypt. It is known today from a large corpus of surviving texts which were made accessible to the modern world following the deciphe ...

for the films ''

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'' (1994) and '' The Mummy'' (1999)

Bibliography

Nonfiction

*''Askut in Nubia'' (1995) *''Wretched Kush: Ethnic Identities and Boundaries in Egypt's Nubian Empire'' (2003) *''Valley of the Kings'' (2003)

Contributor

*''Studies in Culture Contact: Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology'' (1998) *''Box Office Archaeology: Refining Hollywood's Portrayals of the Past'' (2007)

External links

Stuart Tyson Smith homepage
1960 births Living people American Egyptologists University of California, Santa Barbara faculty {{US-archaeologist-stub