Donald Redford, renowned Egyptologist and longtime professor of the ancient world at Pennsylvania State University, passed away on October 18 in College Station, Pennsylvania. He was 90 years old. Redford graduated from the University of Toronto and served there as an associate and then full professor from 1962 to 1998. He then took a position in Penn State’s Department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, where he taught until his retirement early last year. In the 1960s, Redford excavated for several seasons in the Old City of Jerusalem under famed British archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon. In 1972, he started the Akhenaten […]
