B.S. University of Southern Mississippi
M.A.+ Case Western Reserve University
Earl Ertman is a retired professor of Art History (30 years) and former Director of the School of Art at The University of Akron. Earl served as instructor at the Cleveland Museum of Art and served in the U. S. Navy and U. S. Air Force (10 years). Recently Prof. Ertman has been a key member of an archaeological team that found the first tomb discovered in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor, Egypt since Howard Carter found the tomb of King Tutankhamun in 1922. His work and interviews have been featured on The Discovery Channel.
1971 Research and Development Award,Smithsonian Institution
1972, 1974 Art Historian, Field Assist., Field Photographer, Johns Hopkins Univ. .Expedition to Giza, Egypt
1978 Assist. Field Director, Art Historian, Johns Hopkins Expedition to Tell el Rataba, Egypt
1992 Egyptological Art Historian, Univ. of Arizona Egyptian Expedition to West Valley of the Kings
1992-1996 Assistant Field Director/Art Historian, Univ. of Arizona Egyptian Expedition, Amenmesse (KV-10)
1996- 2006 Associate Director, Art Historian, and object analyst, University of Memphis, Amenmesse Project (KV-10, KV-63).
2007- status the same, but this Mission is now under the aegis of the Supreme Council of Antiquities
