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Dr. Denise Doxey is Curator of Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Previously she was Keeper of Collections for the Egyptian Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (now the Penn Museum). Denise received her M.Phil. in Classical Archaeology from Oxford University and her Ph.D. in Ancient History from the University of Pennsylvania. Her teaching experience includes Egyptology courses at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University. She has participated in excavations in Egypt at the sites of Abydos and Saqqara. In addition to numerous articles, she is the author or co-author of five books, most recently Arts of Ancient Nubia and Jewels of Ancient Nubia. She has served on the Board of Governors of the American Research Center in Egypt on the Board of the International Council of Museum’s International Committee for Egyptology. In her time at the MFA, Denise has overseen the renovation of galleries for Predynastic and Early Dynastic art, Old Kingdom art, and Middle Kingdom funerary art. She was the co-curator of the exhibition Secrets of Tomb 10A: Egypt 2000 BC and the curator for Ancient Nubia Now.