Donald B. Redford (1934) Professor of Egyptology in the departments of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and History at the Pennsylvania State University. He is an internationally renowned scholar of ancient Egypt and Biblical studies, and a noted expert on the 18th Dynasty Amarna period. Author of several books, including Akhenaten, and numerous articles. Director of excavations at Mendes and the Epigrapher of the Theban Tomb Survay.