Hugo Cook

Hugo D. Cook is an energetic Egyptologist and Classical Archaeologist with degrees from Oxford (BA/MA) and Cambridge (MPhil), the largest online following of any UK-based Egyptologist, and an award-winning book recently published by Macmillan. He has worked as a lecturer at the British Museum and its partner City Lit, which includes teaching the six ancient languages he knows, and supported Egypt’s upcoming addition to the GCSE Classics national syllabus. He was the lead historical consultant for two galleries in a major new museum in Egypt, he supervised a large-scale project across eleven UK museums to promote Middle Eastern art and heritage, and he assisted with conservation and other heritage programmes across the MENA region. He has 90,000+ followers on his Egyptology-based social media, and guest-stars in History Hit’s ‘The Ancients’ podcast among others. He has contributed to popular magazines and academic journals, and his recent book collecting and translating previously non-disseminated Egyptian tales has won an ILA Children's Book Award. For his doctorate at Oxford, he is a recipient of a Clarendon Scholarship and an OOC DTP, and he is supervised by Prof. Peter Stewart. Hugo is studying the cult of the Egyptian god Harpocrates and his multicultural iconography and cult. He uses this as a case study to explore how art and religion were exchanged in the Hellenistic and Roman periods on the Proto-Silk Roads. This will explore Egypt’s cultural impact on regions including China, India, Uzbekistan, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, and more.