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Russian Egyptologist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Victor Victorovich Solkin (Russian: Ви́ктор Ви́кторович Со́лкин; born January 7, 1977, Moscow) is a Russian historian (Egyptology),[1] museologist, lecturer,[2] founder and leader of the Association for the Study of Ancient Egypt MAAT.[3]
He graduated from the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of General History.[4] From 1993 he began to study the ancient Egyptian language at the Center for Egyptological Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Since 1994, he became an employee of the center, worked there until 2000.[5] Together with colleagues prepared several archaeological photo exhibitions.
Participant of two International Egyptological congresses. As an employee of the CEI RAS, within his competence, he participated in the work of an archaeological expedition to Tell Basta in 1998, conducted by the CEI RAS together with Zagazig University. in 2004 at the IX Congress in Grenoble presented a report on the comprehensive restoration of St. Petersburg sphinxes.[6]
Since 1998, Solkin has actively collaborated with the media, was the main character, or invited expert Egyptologist. Popularizer of Egyptology in scientific and educational (GEO, Around the World, Oriental Collection, Fyodor Konyukhov's Magazine) and esoteric (New Acropolis) magazines. Author of more than 100 scientific and popular scientific publications related to the history and culture of ancient Egypt, the editor and one of the authors of the first Russian national encyclopedia Ancient Egypt, published in 2005 with the preface of Dr. Zahi Hawass.[7]
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