Education
Raven studied Egyptian languages, art history and archeology at Leiden University, and wrote a Doctor of Philosophy thesis ("Symbols of resurrection: three studies in ancient Egyptian iconography") in 1984.
Raven studied Egyptian languages, art history and archeology at Leiden University, and wrote a Doctor of Philosophy thesis ("Symbols of resurrection: three studies in ancient Egyptian iconography") in 1984.
Professor doctor Raven is the curator (since 1978) of the department of Egyptology at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden. In addition to his work at the museum, he has been active as an archeologist in Saqqara since 1975. In Saqqara, he has been working (as joint field director since 1999) on a New Kingdom archeological burial site, a cooperation of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden and the Egypt Exploration Society (1975–1998) and Leiden University (since 1999) In September 2012 he was also appointed as extraordinary professor "Museology of Ancient Egypt" at Leiden University.
Raven published extensively on the collections of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden and his field work at Saqqara.
