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Kenneth Griffin, Egyptologist
Dr.Kenneth Griffin (born 1981) is an Egyptologist originating from Belfast, Ireland, with specialties in ancient Egyptian religious texts, museum collections and curation, and educational outreach. Dr. Griffin achieved his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Egyptology from Swansea University with his doctoral dissertation (2014) on the subject of “An analysis and interpretation of the role of the rekhyt-people within the Egyptian temple.” Additionally, he possesses a Post-Graduate Certificate in Higher Education (2017), along with an M.A. in Museum Studies from Leicester University (2022).

At Swansea University, he has served as a Lecturer in Egyptology, Collections Access Manager at the Egypt Centre, and since 2022 has served at the Egypt Centre’s Curator. His work there has included the curation and study of thousands of objects of the Egypt Centre’s collection, much of it derived from the Wellcome Collection, along with objects on loan from such institutions as Harrogate Museum and the Egypt Exploration Society. A discovery by Griffin in the Centre’s collection – his identification of fragments bearing a rare depiction of the Egyptian princess Neferure - made international news in 2018.

Griffin has participated in archaeological field work in Egypt with the Ahmose-Tetisheri Project at Abydos, the South Asasif Conservation Project, the Thutmosis III Temple Project and the the Pacific Lutheran University Valley of the Kings Project at Luxor, and elsewhere at Sai Island, Sudan, and Oystermouth Castle, Church Hill, and Lodge Wood, Wales. He has lectured and published widely, and is actively involved in public on-line Egyptological education.