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Dr. Bob Bianchi

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2026

Having received his PhD from New York University's Institute of Fine Arts in Egyptian, Greek, and Roman art as well as in modern painting from David to the present, Dr. Bianchi received numerous post-graduate fellowships and embarked on a career in museums serving on the curatorial staffs of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Roemer-Pelizaeus Museum [Hildesheim, Germany], The Bible Lands Museum [Jerusalem], the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art [Geneva], and the Ancient Egyptian Museum Shibuya [Tokyo], where he currently serves as chief curator. http://www.egyptian.jp/outline.html He has served as adjunct professor at Uppsala College in East Orange, N.J., at New York University, at Columbia University, and at the University of Alexandria, Egypt. Dr. Bianchi has spent over 15 seasons on archaeological excavations in Egypt at Mendes in the Delta, at the Precinct of the goddess Mut at Southern Karnak, and most recently as a member (2021) of the Franco-Swiss archaeological mission to Saqqara. Dr. Bianchi has been specifically invited to present the results of his most recent academic research to at least one international congress over the past five years. Dr. Bianchi is widely traveled having repeatedly visited and studied in over 30 nations in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, and extensively published, having authored 38 books and contributed chapters to another 66. He is the author of 264 journal articles and an additional 146 book reviews. He began his TV career with 45 30-minute programs which he wrote and in which he was the only presenter on CBS’s Sunrise Semester in cooperation with New York University in 1979, which was regularly featured in TV GUIDE. To date he has appeared in 124 TV telecasts. He is currently the co-creator and designated host for the Alexandria Project, LLC, the objective of which is to create a mini-documentary television series about the intellectual legacy of the city of Alexandria.

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