Personal Statement
Prof Eyre graduated BA in Ancient Egyptian with Akkadian, and DPhil specialising in the texts and social history of Ramesside Thebes, with a dissertation on employment and labour relations in the Valley of the Kings. He has worked frequently on epigraphic projects, recording the decoration and texts in tombs of different periods at Saqqara and in the temple of Sety I at Abydos.

Research Overview
Current research is focused on the use of both textual and archaeological sources to address the nature of the pharaonic regime, and to provide an informed study of non-elite life in pharaonic Egypt, focused on anthropologial approaches to law, economics, social organization and religion. This means to work outside the ideological presentation of Egypt as a bureaucratic and efficient civilization, and focus on non-monolithic interpretations of the Egyptian record, working from close analysis of specific data to approach the behaviour and status of individuals in context.
Current research is focused on the use of both textual and archaeological sources to address the nature of the pharaonic regime, and to provide an informed study of non-elite life in pharaonic Egypt, focused on anthropologial approaches to law, economics, social organization and religion. This means to work outside the ideological presentation of Egypt as a bureaucratic and efficient civilisation, and focus on non-monolithic interpretations of the Egyptian record, working from close analysis of specific data to approach the behaviour and status of individuals in context. This project has been funded by a Leverhulme Senior Fellowship, under the title Peopling Ancient Egypt: an Ethnography of Pharaonic Egypt.
A further strand of current work focusses on the publication of the epigraphic work from the tombs of Kairer and of Nakhtmin at Saqqara, and the historical and artistic issues related to the construction of these tombs.