Dows  Dunham  ( 01.06.1890  -  10.01.1984 )

An American Egyptologist, Dows Dunhams studied at Harvard where he was taught by Georges A. Reisner in 1913. He was offered the possibility to take part in  his excavations and he rapidly became one of Reisner’s main assistants, working with him at Giza (1914–1915) and Gebel Barkal (1916). He also undertook his own excavation at Gammai in 1915. After WWI, he resumed his fieldwork activities. He excavated with the Harvard-Boston expedition in the Sudan (1919–1923), at Nag-ed-Deir and at Sheikh Farag (1923); with C. Firth at Saqqara and with G. Jéquier at Dahshur (1923–1925), and again with Georges A. Reisner at Giza (1925–1928). He led a curatorial career at the Department of Egyptian Art, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.