AboutJane Akshar Expertise I have extensive knowledge of tourism in Egypt, specifically Luxor, and Egyptology in general. I can answer questions on travel, hotels, restaurants as well as about the sites and dealing with the locals. I can tell recommend deserted sites where you are the only tourist, local guides who will take you walking over the hills, reliable drivers, taxis, donkey and camel men, sailing and motor boat captains.
I can answer questions on Egyptology(up to the end of the New Kingdom) as I have been involved with Egyptology for over 40 years and have contacts in the Antiquities department and with many of the Archaeological teams in Luxor.
Experience I have been coming to Egypt as a tourist since 1979 and moved to live in Luxor in 2003. I love to help people fall in love with Egypt. I guide guests around the sites in Luxor and run a small tourism business renting flats (apartments) to tourists. I am married to an Egyptian and have a bilingual teenage daughter. I write regular feature articles for Tour Egypt and run a News Blog on Luxor.
Organizations AEITB "Association of Egyptian Travel Businesses on the Internet"
Publications www.touregypt.net
www.luxornews.net
wikipedia.org/wiki/KV63
www.kv-63.com (photos)
Archaeological Diggings Magazine
The Cultured Traveller
Egyptian Cultural Heritage Organisation (ECHO)
The Undoctored Past
Education/Credentials 8 O levels, OND in Science, City and Guilds in Computing, 10 years Egyptology with the University of London Extra Mural Dept
Question Egyptology is a hobby of mine. I have read quite a bit on the subject particularly of the early twentieth centuries findings. That being said I have been told over the years that Budge's work has fallen out of favor by serious Egyptologists today. If that is the case whom do you recommend as a source for studies on ancient Egyptian language?
Answer I don't think it is so much that he has fallen out of favour as that he has be superseded by new discoveries. I also think it fair to say there is not one single authority any more. I was a lecture tonight in luxor where to eminent Egyptologist disagreed totally about the interpretation of a particular set on inscriptions. In fact I joke you get 10 Egyptologists in a room you get 14 different views.
I would suggest you try and find a course you can attend either in real life or online and get a good bibliography and read up the different views and interpretation and form your own opinion.
