Although graduating in 1981 with a degree in Geography and Mathematics, our webmaster, Peter Robinson was always interested in archaeology and the landscape. He first became involved in archaeological excavations when working on early medieval sites in Britain and northern France, and published a number of academic papers on the Anglo-Saxon landscape before going on to complete a Master of Philosophy degree on the early Medieval 'Domesday Book' in 1988. But in the early 1990s, Peter began to study Egyptology. It was once Peter had become a Friend of Nekhen, following a trip to Hierakonpolis with a local British Egyptology society, that Peter offered to help with the website, using his experiences in computing. Since then, Peter has helped maintain the site and has updated the design of the website a number of times over the years.
In 2005, Peter came to help at Hierakonpolis as a member of the excavation team for the first time, planning the excavation trench and cataloguing the finds from Tomb 23 in the predynastic cemetery at HK6. He wrote a short piece about his experiences at Hierakonpolis in the following edition of Nekhen News. Peter has been to Hierakonpolis a number of times to help map parts of the site and 'pottery/small finds draw', and has also worked in Luxor with the team of the University of Memphis, Tennessee, surveying and planning a New Kingdom tomb. He has also been a member of a number of local Egyptological societies, both in the UK and also Canada, where he is a Trustee on the Board of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities, based in Toronto. Peter has also published a number of (non-Hierakonpolis related) papers on the Ancient Egyptian afterlife and the 'maps' of its landscape found in coffins and other texts.
HK-related articles
Robinson, P., 2005. ‘A first-timer at Hierakonpolis’, Nekhen News, 17, 29-30.