Bob Brier, PhD., Egyptologist
Angelique Corthals, PhD., Ancient DNA Scientist
Zahi Hawass, PhD., Egyptian Archaeologist
Rameses the Great, played by Boris Terral (France)
Nefertari, played by Elana Drago (Brazil)
Charles Wilbour, played by William Hope (USA)
Ahmed Abd er Rassoul, played by Nasser Memarzia (Iran)
Mohammed Abd er Rassoul, played by Daud Shah (England)
Emile Brugsch, played by Crispin Redman (England)
Paser the Grand Vizier, played by Mehdi Ouazzani (Morocco)
Dr. Bob Brier has worked in Egypt for more than 30 years and is one of the world’s foremost authorities on mummies. He is Senior Research Fellow at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University in Brookville, New York where he teaches Egyptology courses such as “Middle Egyptian” (Hieroglyphs) and a seminar called “The Mummy.”
In 1994 Dr. Brier made international headlines when he and his colleague, Ronald Wade, became the first people in 2000 years to mummify a human cadaver in the ancient Egyptian manner. Using ancient tools and materials, Dr. Brier replicated the mummification of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh. The story of the project has reached more than 25 million readers, TV viewers, and radio-listeners world-wide and was the subject of a National Geographic TV documentary, “Mr. Mummy.”
Dr. Brier’s previous projects include reconstructing the tomb of an Egyptian nobleman, complete with accurate hieroglyphs, for the Hillwood Art Museum at C.W. Post. He is the author of numerous books, including, “The Murder of Tutankhamen” (1998) “Encyclopedia of Mummies” (1998), “Egyptian Mummies” (1994) and “Ancient Egyptian Magic” 1990.
He has collaborated on numerous television specials and was the host of the six-part series “The Great Egyptians,” the three-part series “Unwrapped, the Mysterious World of Mummies” and recently a series about his research called “Mummy Detective.” Dr. Brier is currently studying mummies to determine whether Alzheimer’s disease existed among ancient Egyptians.
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Dr. Angelique Corthals is a biological anthropologist who earned her DPhil (PhD) from the Oriental Institute at the University of Oxford, where she specialized in Egyptology and biological anthropology. Her work has focused on conservation biology in the US and abroad, the ecology of infectious diseases (Bilharzia, Malaria), and forensics in South America and the Middle East. She has studied ancient human remains at the Museum of High Mountain Archaeology in Salta, Argentina, at the Metropolitan Museum, and the American Museum of Natural History in New York where she worked as Curatorial Associate from 2000 to 2006. She joined the faculty of the KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology in the department of Life Sciences at the University of Manchester (UK) in September 2006 as Lecturer in Biomedical and Forensic Studies in Egyptology.
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Dr. Zahi Hawass is an Egyptian archaeologist and one of the world's foremost Egyptologists. He has gained international renown in non-archaeological circles through his frequent appearances in television documentaries pertaining to early Egyptian civilization.
Hawass received his Bachelor's degree from Alexander University, and his Ph.D from University of Pennsylvania. He is currently the Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities; prior to that, he was the Director of the Giza Plateau and has also worked at archaeological sites in the Nile Delta, the Western Desert, and the Upper Nile Valley.
Hawass was born in Damietta, Egypt on May 28, 1947
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