Dmitry Prusakov
Russian Egyptologist
Dmitry Borisovich Prusakov (Russian: Дмитрий Борисович Прусаков; born 31 July 1965, Moscow) is a Russian Egyptologist with Doktor nauk of history. He is a graduate of Bauman Moscow State Technical University, chief research officer at Institute of Oriental Studies RAN, member of the University of Chicago Oriental Institute and of the Egypt Exploration Society (London) and has participated in various archaeological expeditions. He investigates the socio-ecological history of the ancient world and is one of the leading Russian specialists in Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt.
Publications
Relationship between Man and Nature in Ancient Egypt, 1996.
Nature and Man in Ancient Egypt in Series. Vol.14., 1999.
Origins of Islam. Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 53/3-4 (1999): 243—276 (with Vladimir Klimenko and Andrey Korotayev).
The Early State in Ancient Egypt in Series. Vol.19., 2001.
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