NICHOLAS REEVES is best known for his excavations in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, where in the spring and summer of 2006 his Amarna Royal Tombs Project (ARTP) was able to announce its discovery of two highly significant features - KV63, an undisturbed funerary chamber cleared by the University of Memphis that same year, and 'KV64', the first of several potential ARTP burials still to be dug.

First detected by Reeves' team in 2000 using ground-penetrating radar (GPR), KV63 and 'KV64' represent the most important finds to have been made in the Valley of the Kings since Howard Carter uncovered the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922.

A specialist in Egyptian history, archaeology and material culture, Reeves graduated with first class honours in Ancient History from University College London in 1979 and received his PhD in Egyptology from Durham University in 1984. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1994 and an Honorary Fellow of the Oriental Museum, Durham University in 1996.

Since 1984 Reeves has been active in various museum and heritage roles - as Curator in the former Department of Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum, as Curator to the seventh Earl of Carnarvon at Highclere Castle, as Curatorial Consultant on Egyptian antiquities to the Freud Museum, London, as Director of Collections for The Denys Eyre Bower Bequest at Chiddingstone Castle, and as GAD Tait Curator of Egyptian and Classical Art at Eton College. A pioneer in the field of collection mapping, in 1987 he initiated the British Museum's detailed Survey of Egyptian Collections in the UK - as now developed an important component of Cornucopia, the online database of the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA).

Nicholas Reeves has published extensively on a range of subjects, lectured widely to both academic and popular audiences, and over the years arranged a number of highly acclaimed conferences and exhibitions in London, New York, Tokyo and elsewhere. The present site - very much a work in progress - is intended in due course to document fully his efforts in these and other areas of Egyptology and the broader historical field.

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