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Occupation
  

Name
  
William Ward

Born
  
June 10, 1928 (
1928-06-10
)

Died
  
September 13, 1996, Providence, Rhode Island, United States

Books
  
The Four Egyptian Homographic Roots B-3

William Ayres Ward (June 10, 1928 – September 13, 1996) was an American Egyptologist.

Biography

Born in Chicago, Ward studied at the Butler University in Indianapolis and received his B.A. in History of religions in 1951. Then he attained a MA in Egyptology at the University of Chicago in 1955 and a PhD in Semitic languages at the Brandeis University in 1958. He then taught in Beirut, first at the Beirut College for Women and later, since 1963, at the American University of Beirut. From 1986 until his death in 1996 he was Visiting Professor at the Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

His main areas of research included the relations between Egypt and Levant, Egyptian-Semitic etymology, as well as scarabs and titles of the Old and Middle Kingdom of Egypt.

References

William Ayres Ward Wikipedia


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