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MELINDA K. HARTWIG, Ph.D.
Melinda Hartwig is a specialist in ancient Egyptian art, architecture, and the applications of science in art.

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Melinda Hartwig, PhD

I am an Egyptologist, professor, presenter, and award-winning author. I am passionate about Egypt and have dedicated my career to sharing my knowledge and enthusiasm with many people around the world. I have spoken on many topics related to ancient Egypt, from its architecture and history to its art and religion, and have been invited to present in various venues around the world. I am also a tour lecturer, guiding groups on journeys to the ancient sites of Egypt.

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Dr. Melinda Hartwig is an award-winning author and editor of The Tomb Chapel of Menna (AUC Press) now in its second printing, and A Companion to Ancient Egyptian Art (Wiley-Blackwell), which received a 2016 PROSE Award for Single Volume Reference in the Humanities & Social Sciences. Her most recent project, The Real Ancient Egypt now streaming now on Wondrium, received the 2023 Telly Bronze Award under "History - Non-Broadcast." For The Great Courses, she did a 24-episode series and coursebook entitled The Great Tours: A Gui

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Melinda Hartwig is an award-winning author and editor of The Tomb Chapel of Menna, and A Companion to Ancient Egyptian Art, which received the 2016 PROSE Award for Single Volume Reference in the Humanities & Social Sciences. Her latest project is a 24-episode video series and course guidebook, The Great Tours: A Guided Tour of Ancient Egypt (www.thegreatcourses.com), which builds on her 30+ years of leading tours and documentation field projects in Egypt. She lectures around the world and serves as an on-air expert for documentaries on the BBC, PBS, and Discovery, National Geographic, and Smithsonian Channels. Hartwig is the Curator of Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art at the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University. She is past President of the American Research Center in Egypt Board of Governors, and a Professor Emerita of Georgia State University, where she taught art history. When not traveling in Egypt, you can find her writing with her two rescue dogs, Bo and Snooper, sleeping next to her office chair. Read more about Melinda here: melindahartwigphd.com.

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Melinda Hartwig

Hidden mysteries in Ancient Egyptian paintings from the Theban Necropolis observed by in-situ XRF mapping

PLOS ONE 187(7): e0287647, 2023

The material study of ancient Egyptian paintings began with the advent of Egyptology during the 1... more The material study of ancient Egyptian paintings began with the advent of Egyptology during the 19th century. By the 1930s, a lot had already been sampled and described. The limited palette for example has been analysed from actual painted surfaces but also from pigments and painting tools retrieved on site. However, most of these studies took place in museums while the painted surfaces, preserved in funerary chapels and temples, remained somewhat estranged from this primary physical understanding. The artistic process has been also reconstructed, mainly from the information presented by unfinished monuments, showing surfaces at different stages of completion. A lot of this modern and theoretical reconstruction is, however, based on the usual archaeological guessing game that aims at filling the remaining blanks. Our inter