Campbell Price
Dr Campbell Price has been Curator of Egypt and Sudan at Manchester Museum since 2011. He completed his BA, MA, and PhD in Egyptology at the University of Liverpool, where he is now an Honorary Research Fellow.
Campbell has undertaken fieldwork at Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham, Saqqara and the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. His main research interests centre on the interpretation of Pharaonic elite culture, the construction of ‘ancient Egypt’ in museums, and the histories of Egyptology.
Campbell has published widely on aspects of his research. Recent books include Golden Mummies of Egypt. Interpreting Identities from the Graeco-Roman Period (Manchester University Press, 2023), to accompany Manchester Museum's first international touring exhibition, and Brief Histories: Ancient Egypt (Seven Dials, 2024),
Between 2021 and 2025, he was Chair of Trustees at the Egypt Exploration Society, the UK’s foremost charity promoting Egypt’s cultural heritage.
Campbell has undertaken fieldwork at Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham, Saqqara and the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. His main research interests centre on the interpretation of Pharaonic elite culture, the construction of ‘ancient Egypt’ in museums, and the histories of Egyptology.
Campbell has published widely on aspects of his research. Recent books include Golden Mummies of Egypt. Interpreting Identities from the Graeco-Roman Period (Manchester University Press, 2023), to accompany Manchester Museum's first international touring exhibition, and Brief Histories: Ancient Egypt (Seven Dials, 2024),
Between 2021 and 2025, he was Chair of Trustees at the Egypt Exploration Society, the UK’s foremost charity promoting Egypt’s cultural heritage.
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Brief Histories answers the most popular on ancient Egypt with some new perspectives on this fascinating civilisation.
Introduction: Why Are We So Interested
in Ancient Egypt?
1. How Did the Egyptians View Time?
2. How Powerful was the Pharaoh?
3. What was the Ancient Environment Like?
4. How Do You Meet a God?
5. Who Wrote Down What?
6. What Did Ordinary People Do?
7. What Happens When You Die
(And Are Rich)?
8. What Did the Ancient Egyptians Look Like?
9. How Closely Connected was Egypt to
Other Ancient Cultures?
10. Why Are There So Many Egyptian Antiquities
Outside Egypt?
Books Edited by Campbell Price
Papers by Campbell Price
Manufacture of any image was a highly skilled, quasi-divine process in Pharaonic Egypt, effected chiefly by trained and properly initiated people. Somewhat paradoxically, therefore, Egyptian sculpture has often been perceived to be inherently accessible — based significantly on 19th Century comparisons with Classical works that required more knowledge from a modern viewer. This is a cultural judgement that has persistently informed reconstructions of the statues’ original settings and functions.
It might reasonably be assumed that colossal statues of Pharaoh — so emblematic of 'Ancient Egypt' in general — were the most visible and therefore the most accessible of sculptures for the Egyptians themselves, although access even to them is likely to have been highly mediated in their original context.
Edited by Leah Acheson Roberts (Honorary Academic Curator at Manchester Museum)
Published by Manchester Museum with support from Syria Relief