Frank J. Yurco

Frank J. Yurco (July 31, 1944 – February 6, 2004), born to Czechoslovakian immigrants in New York, was an Egyptologist from Chicago.He graduated from New York University and earned masters in Chicago uni. He came to Chicago in 1967.He served in the U.S army during the vietnam war in 1968.He held a position at the University of Chicago’s Regenstein Library until 2002, when he was diagnosed with ALS and died from it.

Race controversy debate
He was part of a debate regarding the race issue of Queen Nefertiti in 1990 that arose from black egyptologists that were afrocentrists, and defended his view that ancient egyptians were not just black and in fact similar to modern egyptians since it was ethnically diverse, which can be either negroid or mediterranean.