Dows Dunham

Dows Dunham
Born	Irvington, New York, US
Died	Boston, Massachusetts, US
Education	Harvard University (AB)
Parent	Carroll Dunham Jr.
Scientific career
Fields	Egyptology

Dows Dunham (1 June 1890 – 10 January 1984) was an American archaeologist, Egyptologist, and curator of Egyptian art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

Dunham studied art history at Harvard University from 1909 to 1913. He was taught by George Andrew Reisner, who offered him a job and made him one of his main assistants. Dunham was a member of numerous expeditions in Egypt and Sudan beginning in 1914, where he worked mainly on Reisner's team. In Giza, for example, he worked in the grave of Hetepheres I.

He was a curator at the Egyptian department of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston until 1956, and published a large part of the excavations of George Andrew Reisner, whose excavation documents are kept in the Museum of Fine Arts after his retirement.

In 1954, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was awarded the Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement in 1979.

Bibliography

• Recollections of an Egyptologist (1972)

External links

• Oral history with Dows Dunham