title: The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Earth (Wilbour Studies in Egypt and Ancient Western Asia)
author: Joshua Aaron Roberson
description: Joshua Aaron Roberson is Assistant Professor, Department of History, Camden County College (Blackwood, NJ). He has worked as an epigrapher and sigillographer with the University of Pennsylvania expeditions to Saqqara and Abydos. He has also worked as a sigillographer for the French-Egyptian expedition (CNRS/CFEETK) to the Opet temple at Karnak, and has conducted independent research in the Valley of the Kings and El Asasif at Thebes (modern Luxor) and the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
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