Dr Campbell Price

Campbell Price is Curator of Egypt and Sudan at Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, one of the UK’s largest Egyptology collections. He became interested in ancient Egypt as a child after visiting Kelvingrove Museum in his native Glasgow. Campbell undertook his BA, MA, and PhD in Egyptology at the University of Liverpool, where he completed his AHRC-funded PhD thesis on the functions of non-royal statuary at Karnak. Campbell is now an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool and also Chair of Trustees of the Egypt Exploration Society, a charity founded to support and promote Egypt's cultural heritage. 

In Egypt, Campbell has undertaken fieldwork at Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham, Saqqara and the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. He has published extensively on ancient Egyptian material culture, most recently Golden Mummies of Egypt: Interpreting Identities from the Graeco-Roman Period (Manchester University Press, 2023), Ancient Egypt in 50 Discoveries (with Stephanie Boonstra, EES) and The High Steward Senenmut: His Life and Afterlife (American University in Cairo Press) (both 2024). Campbell's main research interests are in ancient Egyptian art and material culture, and in the conception of ‘Ancient Egypt’ in museums. Campbell has lectured widely throughout the UK, and internationally, and has appeared on TV and radio.