As
curator of the Egyptian Department of the Royal Ontario Museum, Krzysztof
Adam Grzymski was the person primarily responsible for the successful exhibition
of Egyptian antiquities at the ROM in the year 2000, the only Canadian
showing of this tour de force exhibition. Born, Kalisz, Poland, 1951, Dr.
Grzymski won a scholarship to the University of Calgary afterobtaining
an M.A., Archaeology, University of Warsaw, 1976. He taught and did research
at the University of Calgary while earning his Ph.D., 1981, and was a Research
Fellow and Assistant Director of the Dongola Reach Survey, 1982-84, and
Director of the project in the Sudan, 1984-86. He was appointed Senior
Curator, Egyptian Section, ROM, and Associate Professor, University of
Toronto, 1984. As an esteemed archaeologist, he co-directed the Pelusium
West excavations, Egypt, 1994-95, and has been Director of the ROM Expedition
to Nubia since 1986. Dr. Grzymski is the author of Archaeological Reconnaissance
in Upper Nubia, 1987. He also co-authored Ancient Egypt and Nubia, Royal
Ontario Museum, 1994, and Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids, New
York, 1999. Since 1998, he has been Vice-President, Canadian Institute
in Egypt. [Photo, courtesy Dr. K.A. Grzymski]