Sara Abdelaziz is an Egyptian archaeologist and journalist with over 10 years of experience in both fields. She holds two Bachelors (Egyptology and Journalism) from the American University in Cairo (2011). In 2020/2021, she was chosen as a Chevening scholar, and earned her MA in Archaeology and Heritage of the Middle East from University College London, with a thesis focusing on ‘Predynastic Children Pot Burials’. Her work experience includes the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, the Grand Egyptian Museum.
Until recently, she was the communications manager of the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) and is now a PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania. Passionate about fieldwork, she has excavated in Deir El Ballas, the Valley of the Monkeys, Saqqara and Madaba (Jordan). She has also been a jury member of the International Committee of Tourism Film Festivals (CIFFT) since 2024. Her interests include urbanism, funerary culture, comparative archaeology, gender, and heritage.
