Nekhen in 1990 and 1995. Hierakonpolis and onward Her work with Garstang's excavations paid off when she was chosen as the pottery and objects expert for Michael A. Hoffman's re-established excavations of Hierakonpolis in 1979–80. She assisted at a cemetery of a predynastic elite group and she worked on the site until 1986. She had worked as an assistant to Walter Fairservis in 1981 at Nekhan and again in 1984. After Hoffmann's death in 1990, Adams and Renée Friedman became co-directors of the Hierakonpolis excavation which continued until 1996. She has been credited with the discovery of previously unknown funeral-masks and a life-size statue. She was editor of the Shire Egyptology Series (numbering 25 books in total). Her final work was based upon vase fragments from a cemetery at Abydos. Adams married her highschool sweetheart Robert Adams in 1967 in her hometown of London. Adams died from cancer in 2002. Bibliography Barbara Adams, Excavations in the Locality 6 cemetery at Hierakonpolis: 1979 - 1985, Oxford: Archaeopress, 2000, Barbara Adams, Ancient Nekhen - Garstang in the city of Hierakonpolis, New Malden: Shire Publications, 1990, Barbara Adams, Predynastic Egypt, Aylesbury Shire Publications, 1988 Barbara Adams, The Fort cemetery at Hierakonpolis: excavated by John Gerstang, London: KPI, 1987, Barbara Adams, Sculptured Pottery from Koptos in the Petrie Collection, Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1986, Barbara Adams, Egyptian Mummies, Aylesbury Shire Publications, References External links Cincinnati and Brown 1945 births 2002 deaths British Egyptologists Deaths from cancer in England People from Hammersmith People associated with the UCL Institute of Archaeology British women archaeologists British women historians