Background
Ray was born on 22 December 1945.
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Education
He was educated at Latymer Upper School, an independent school in London. He graduated Bachelor of Arts (Bachelor), later promoted to Master of Arts (Master of Arts Cantab).
Career
He is the current Sir Herbert Thompson Professor of Egyptology at the University of Cambridge. He went on to study at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Following his graduation from university, Ray spent some of 1970 working at the British Museum as a research assistant in the Department of Egyptian Antiquities.
He then joined the University of Birmingham, where he was a Lecture in Egyptology from 1970 to 1977.
In 1977, he joined the University of Cambridge as a Reader in Egyptology. In 1979, he was elected a Fellow of Selwyn College in addition to his university post.
He was promoted to Professor and appointed to the Sir Herbert Thompson Chair in Egyptology in 2005. He retired in 2013 and was appointed Professor Emeritus.
