Egyptologist, author, and lecturer, Robert (Bob) Partridge was the editor

Editor in chief

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 of the U.K.

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 based magazine Ancient Egypt magazine

Ancient Egypt magazine

Ancient Egypt is a magazine that deals with the subject of Egyptology. It is published bi-monthly.Ancient Egypt magazine is pitched somewhere between an academic journal and a travel magazine - bringing the spectacular sights of the ancient world together with the latest archaeological discoveries...

, produced six times a year, the only UK magazine concentrating solely on ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was an ancient civilization of Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt. Egyptian civilization coalesced around 3150 BC with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh...

 and sold worldwide.

He lectured on many different aspects of ancient Egypt to Egyptology Societies within the U.K and abroad.

He was on the Committee of the Northern Branch of the Egypt Exploration Society and is Chairman of the Manchester Ancient Egypt Society, the largest and oldest of the many provincial Egyptology Societies in the UK.

He owned and ran the Ancient Egypt Picture Library and was a photographer with a collection of over 30,000 images of the ancient and more recent archaeological site

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s. These images were used for his lectures and courses and also supplied to publishers and television companies.

Partridge organised specialist trips to Egypt to visit the main, but also some of the more obscure and less visited sites, acting as team leader.

He had been an Egyptological advisor to several Television programmes and also to filmmakers, including appearances in documentaries. He had also helped with museum

Museum

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 exhibits, providing images and text, at the Egypt Centre, Swansea, and the Bagshaw Museum in Yorkshire.

He has been quoted by the BBC

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 on their news website and was thanked for his assistance in the article Khufu Knew the Sphinx by Colin Reader

On 5 April 2010 he was interviewed on The One Show

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 on BBC1.

Robert Partridge died on 10th July 2011, following a long illness.