In 2002 she was Kress Fellow at the National Gallery of Art and worked on the preparation of the Cairo Museum exhibition Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt. She was part of an archaeological team excavating at the artisans' village of Deir el Medina in Egypt, as well as Dahshur and various tombs at Thebes. She was awarded a PhD in 2002 by Johns Hopkins University for Near Eastern Studies. Raised in Houston, she obtained her Bachelor of Arts in German and Humanities from the University of Texas in Austin in 1994. She specialises in craft production, coffin studies, and economies in the ancient world. As well as for her scholarly work, she is known for hosting television shows on ancient Egypt on the Discovery Channel as well as for writing a popular-press book on the subject. (Kara) Cooney is an Egyptologist, archaeologist, professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture at UCLA and chair of the Department of Near Eastern Language and Cultures at UCLA. Egyptologist and Assistant Professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture at UCLA
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