Robert George Morkot is a Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Exeter

University of Exeter

The University of Exeter is a public university in South West England. It belongs to the 1994 Group, an association of 19 of the United Kingdom's smaller research-intensive universities....

, where he specialises in the external relations of Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was an ancient civilization of Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt. Egyptian civilization coalesced around 3150 BC with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh...

, particularly the relations with Kush (Sudan). He also works on the historiography

Historiography

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 of Ancient Egypt.

Morkot worked at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology

The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology in London, England, which is part of University College LondonMuseums & Collections. The museum contains over 80,000 objects and ranks among some of the world's leading collections of Egyptian and Sudanese material...

 before completing a PhD at University College London

University College London

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 (1983–1987) on the relations of Egypt with Kush between 1500 and 700 BC. He was a Fellow at the Oriental Institute, Oxford

Oriental Institute, Oxford

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 from 1987 to 1991 and taught at The City University and the University of Surrey

University of Surrey

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 before he joined the University of Exeter in 1996.
Morkot contributed to the 1991 book Centuries of Darkness, edited by Peter James.