Milestone: Kenneth A. Kitchen (1932–2025)

Kenneth Kitchen was a giant in the field of Near Eastern studies. His interests spanned from Anatolia and South Arabia to Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent, with Egypt being his passion. Drawn at an early age to a love of Egyptian hieroglyphs, he enrolled at the University of Liverpool in 1951 to study Egyptology. By 1957, he was appointed lecturer in Egyptology, eventually becoming a professor in 1987. His dissertation, published as The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt (Arts & Phillips, 1973), was expanded in two subsequent editions and remains one of the standard works on the subject. But his […]