Patricia Spencer

Dr Patricia Spencer has worked for the EES since 1981 and was Director from January 1984 to December 2011. She now works part-time for the Society as its General Editor. A graduate of the University of Liverpool, her PhD thesis (UCL) was published as The Egyptian Temple: a Lexicographical Study. She is Editor of the EES magazine Egyptian Archaeology and edited and contributed to the Society’s The Egypt Exploration Society – the early years. Since 1981 she has been a member of British Museum teams excavating in Egypt, at Ashmunein, Tell Belim and Tell el-Balamun, and most recently worked for the EES Delta Survey at Yetwal wa Yuksur and Tell el-Daba (Kafr es-Sheikh).