كنت ويكس Kent R. Weeks

كنت ويكس
Kent R. Weeks
وُلِدَ	16 ديسمبر 1941 إڤرت، واشنطن
التعليم	جامعة واشنطن الدكتوراه في علم المصريات من جامعة يل
المهنة	عالم مصريات
رب العمل	الجامعة الأمريكية في القاهرة جامعة شيكاغو
الزوج	Susan Howe Weeks

كنت ر. ويكس (Kent R. Weeks ؛ وُلِد في 16 ديسمبر 1941) هو عالم مصريات أمريكي.

 السيرة

وُلِد كنت في إڤرت، واشنطن، في 16 ديسمبر 1941.

He remembers deciding to be an Egyptologist at the age of eight. Weeks attended R. A. Long High School in Longview, Washington, and graduated in 1959. وقد درس علم الإنسان في جامعة واشنطن في سياتل، والتي حصل منها على درجة الماجستير. He visited Egypt for the first time in 1963 and was active in digs in Nubia associated with relocation work necessitated by the building of the Aswan Dam and the flooding of the Nile Valley to create Lake Nasser. وفي 1970 حصل على درجة الدكتوراه في علم المصريات من جامعة يل.

Dr. Weeks' professional career began with his appointment as Professor of Anthropology at الجامعة الأمريكية في القاهرة for the academic year 1971–72. Later he was appointed assistant Curator of Egyptian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, then assistant Professor at the جامعة شيكاغو and Director of its Institute in Luxor (Chicago House), then professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and in 1988 he became a professor of Egyptology at The American University in Cairo. His wife, Susan Weeks, was also an archaeologist and a gifted artist before her death in December 2009.

In 1978, Weeks devised and launched the Theban Mapping Project–an exceedingly ambitious plan to photograph and map every temple and tomb in the Theban Necropolis. As part of this project, Weeks introduced hot air ballooning to the Luxor area with the intent of making inexpensive aerial surveys, which grew into an important part of the local tourist industry. However, a more important achievement of the Project was its 1995 discovery of the identity, and vast dimensions, of KV5, the tomb of the sons of Ramesses II in the Valley of the Kings.

In 1996, Weeks received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.

On 12th December 2009, Susan Howe Weeks, Kent Weeks wife of 43 years, passed away.

 Publications

• Atlas of the Valley of the Kings: The Theban Mapping Project
• The Illustrated Guide to Luxor and the Valley of the Kings
• The Valley of the Kings: The Tombs and the Funerary of Thebes West, (as editor)
• The Lost Tomb, 1998

 External links

• The Theban Mapping Project
• Dr. Kent R. Weeks' profile