page_title: Harry Smith (Egyptologist)
section_title: Academic career
hierarchical_section_title: Harry Smith (Egyptologist) / Academic career
caption_attribution_description: English: Statuette, Anubis Recumbent
context_page_description: Henry Sidney "Harry" Smith, FBA is a British Egyptologist and academic, specialising in epigraphy and Egyptian archaeology. He held the Edwards Chair of Egyptology at University College London from 1970 to 1986. He had previously been a lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Cambridge, where he was also Budge Fellow in Egyptology at Christ's College, Cambridge.
context_section_description: From 1953 to 1953, Smith worked as an epigraphist on the Theban tombs, and was an assistant to W. B. Emery at his archaeological excavation at Saqqara. He was appointed a lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Cambridge in 1954, and was elected Budge Fellow in Egyptology at Christ's College, Cambridge the following year. He continued to assist at excavations in Egypt and Nubia, working at the Buhen fortress and Qasr Ibrim from 1959. In 1961, he directed the Egypt Exploration Society's archaeological survey of Egyptian Nubia. 
  In 1963, he moved to University College, London (UCL), where he had been appointed Reader in Egyptian Archaeology. He was additionally appointed an honorary curator of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, a position he held between 1963 and 1970. From 1964 to 1965, he once more directed the EES's Egyptian Nubian Survey. He was field director of the excavations at Saqqara's Sacred Animal Necropolis between 1964 and 1976. In 1970, he was appointed to the Edwards Chair of Egyptology and head of UCL's Department of Egyptology. He directed excavations at Saqqara and Memphis between 1970 and 1988. He stepped down from the chair in 1986 and as head of department in 1988. He was made Professor Emeritus of Egyptology by UCL in 1993, upon his retirement.
caption: Recumbent Anubis statue from Saqqara's Sacred Animal Necropolis, excavated 1966–67
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