COMING OUT AS AN EGYPTOLOGIST FROM LOS ANGELES TO CAIRO TO THE HISTORY CHANNEL,
NICHOLAS BROWN MAKES ARCHEOLOGY SEXY BY ALEXANDER RODRIGUEZ
IF YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING THE HISTORY CHANNEL OVER THE YEARS, YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED A FRESH CROP OF HISTORIANS, SCIENTISTS, AND ARCHEOLOGISTS KEEPING THINGS EXCITING. The History Channel
has gone through a rebranding to attract young, new audiences. In addition to the usual fare of documentaries, shows like Ancient Aliens and The UnXplained have popped up, blurring the line between history, and engaging, far-fetched theories. One of the latest additions is Egyptologist Nicholas Brown, as seen in The UnXplained’s “Mysterious Mummies,” and he’ll be the first to tell you that Ancient Aliens isn’t really a thing – and he’s got the creds to tell you why. Over the last decade, he’s split his time between Los Angeles and Cairo. He just recently became a Ph.D. Candidate at UCLA and received his MA degree in Egyptology from the American University in Cairo. His excavation experience includes working with archaeological sites in Aswan (at Elephantine Island and Wadi el-Hudi), as well as funerary sites in Luxor, Amarna, and the Sudan. In 2016, Nicholas spent the summer working at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston as the Terrace Curatorial Research Associate in Egyptology. He returned to the MFA over the summer of 2019 to conduct archival research for the Egyptian Art Department’s exhibit“Ancient Nubia Now.”Nicholas’s research interests include funerary material culture from the New Kingdom, as well as the use and perception of ancient Egypt within modern contexts. When most kids were watching cartoons and playing with Transformers, Nicholas was hearing the call of the pyramids.
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