Ricardo Caminos
Ricardo Augusto Caminos (c. 1916 – May 28, 1992) was an
Argentine Egyptologist focused on
epigraphy and
paleography. Caminos was born in
Buenos Aires and had a brother Hugo and sister Helena. As a child he was fascinated by ancient history, and went on to obtain his undergraduate degree and M.A. (1938) from the
University of Buenos Aires. After studying for PhD's from both
Oxford University and the
University of Chicago's
Oriental Institute, Chicago, he worked on number of Egyptian and Sudanese excavations, including those about to be flooded by the construction on the
Aswan Dam. Around 1952 he was hired by
Brown University, and in 1972 he became the chairman of the Egyptology department, retiring in 1980. He then moved to
London where he conducted research at the nearby
Egypt Exploration Society. His former home in London now serves as the Ricardo A. Caminos Memorial Library of the Egypt Exploration Society, and contains approximately 20,000 books, journals, and pamphlets on Egyptology.
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