Aidan Dodson was born in 1962 in London and brought up in Slough, Berkshire. He studied Egyptology at Durham, Liverpool and Cambridge Universities, obtaining his BA in 1985, his MPhil in 1986 and his PhD in 1995; he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2003. He has taught in the Department of Archaeology & Anthropology at Bristol University, where he is now a Senior Research Fellw, since 1996 and has given public lectures in the UK, the USA, Canada, Egypt, Denmark, Italy and Spain. In December 2011 he was elected Chairman of Trustees of the Egypt Exploration Society. He met his wife while teaching her Egyptology at an adult education class; they live in Bristol.
