Maarten Raven

Who is Maarten Raven?

Prof. dr. Maarten J. Raven is a Dutch Egyptologist.

Raven is the curator of the department of Egyptology at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden. In addition to his work at the museum, he has been active as an archeologist in Saqqara since 1975. In Saqqara, he has been working on a New Kingdom archeological burial site, a cooperation of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden and the Egypt Exploration Society and Leiden University In September 2012 he was also appointed as extraordinary professor 'Museology of Ancient Egypt' at Leiden University.

Raven studied Egyptian languages, art history and archeology at Leiden University, and wrote a PhD thesis in 1984. Raven published extensively on the collections of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden and his field work at Saqqara.