William Kelly Simpson (January 3, 1928 – March 24, 2017) was an American professor of Egyptology, Archaeology, Ancient Egyptian literature, and Afro-Asiatic languages at Yale University.Yale University Press. (2009). The Literature of Ancient Egypt. Retrieved on 08-03-2009.The Cambridge University Catalogue. (2009). The Great Pyramid: Ancient Egypt Revisited. Retrieved on 08-03-2009.
He was one of several co-directors of the University of Pennsylvania Museum Yale University Expedition to Abydos, Egypt, which conducts archaeological excavations of ancient sites.University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. (2007). The Pennsylvania-Yale Excavations at Abydos, Egypt. Retrieved 08-03-2009. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1983.
Personal life Simpson was born on January 3, 1928, in New York City, to Kenneth Simpson and Helen-Louise Knickerbacker Porter (1893-1981).David Shavit, The United States in the Middle East: A Historical Dictionary (Greenwood Press, 1988: )
He married Marilyn Ellen Milton (1931-1980), a granddaughter of philanthropists John Rockefeller Jr. William and Marilyn have two children: Laura Knickerbacker Simpson (1954-2012) Abigail Rockefeller Simpson (born 1958): married Todd Mydland.
Simpson died on March 24, 2017, at the age of 89.
Literature Peter Manuelian (editor): Studies in Honor of William Kelly Simpson, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1996 W.K. Simpson, (editor): "The Literature of Ancient Egypt", (London/New Haven: Yale University, 2003) W.K. Simpson, (author): The Offering Chapel of Kayemnofret in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1992. (OCoLC)28641867
See also List of Egyptologists
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