Primary Investigator | The Book of the Dead in 3D

Rita Lucarelli

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Name:

Rita Lucarelli

Language English

Title:

Associate Professor of Egyptology, University of California, Berkeley

Role:

Primary Investigator

Biography:

Rita Lucarelli studied at the University of Naples “L’Orientale,” Italy, where she received her MA degree in Classical Languages and Egyptology. She holds her Ph.D. from Leiden University, the Netherlands (2005). Her Ph.D. thesis was published in 2006 as The Book of the Dead of Gatseshen: Ancient Egyptian Funerary Religion in the 10th Century BC. Until June 2014 she worked as a Research Scholar and a Lecturer at the Department of Egyptology of Bonn University, where she was part of the team of the “Book of the Dead Project”.