Egyptian Boats and Ships (Shire Egyptology)
Steve Vinson is a doctoral student in Egyptology at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.  He has long been interested in ancient ships and earned a master's degree in natuical archaeology at Texas A&M; University in 1987.  While a marine archaeology student, he participated in the excavation of the late Bronze Age shipwreck at Ulu Burun, Turkey, in 1985 and 1986, and has done research on boat graffiti on Egyptian temples.