Education
Born in Chicago, Ward studied at the Butler University in Indianapolis and received his Bachelor of Arts in History of religions in 1951.
archaeologist university professor
Born in Chicago, Ward studied at the Butler University in Indianapolis and received his Bachelor of Arts in History of religions in 1951.
He then taught in Beirut, first at the Beirut College for Women and later, since 1963, at the American University of Beirut. From 1986 until his death in 1996 he was Visiting Professor at the Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. His main areas of research included the relations between Egypt and Levant, Egyptian-Semitic etymology, as well as scarabs and titles of the Old and Middle Kingdom of Egypt.