Nicholas Millet

Dr. Nicholas Byram Millet was an Egyptologist affiliated with the Royal Ontario Museum and the University of Toronto. An archaeologist, art historian, linguist, museum curator, administrator, and celebrated teacher, Millet was able to make great strides in the daunting task of translating the lost language of the ancient Sudan, Meroitic. His careful study of the unusual script led to the decipherment of a number of Meroitic words, phrases, and verb formations, and helped shed some light on the social and political constructs of this mysterious civilization. No one else has approached his level of contribution to knowledge of this important ancient African empire. Millets final word on the Meroitic language was published posthumously in The Meroitic Inscriptions from Gebel Adda, The Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities in 2005.

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