Dominic Montserrat

Dominic Alexander Sebastian Montserrat (2 January 1964 – 23 September 2004) was a British egyptologist and papyrologist.

Early life and education Dominic Alexander Sebastian Montserrat was born in Slough on 2 January 1964. He was born with hemophilia, a genetic disorder that impairs the body's ability to stop bleeding.

Despite his ill health Montserrat was remarkably productive in his brief scholarly life: he was a member of the committee of the Egypt Exploration Society, for which he published regularly, and curated the award-winning travelling exhibition Ancient Egypt: Digging For Dreams of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. A wider audience saw him co-presenting the TV documentary series The Egyptian Detectives, a production of National Geographic Channel and Channel Five. His second book focused on the life and times of the "heretic pharaoh" Akhenaten (2000), whose long afterlife as an object of modern interpretations and appropriations he critically analyzed.

Selected works Sex and Society in Graeco-Roman Egypt, London & New York: Kegan Paul, 1996, From Constantine to Julian: Pagan and Byzantine Views. A Source History, London & New York: Routledge, 1996 (co-editor), Akhenaten: History, Fantasy and Ancient Egypt, London & New York: Routledge, 2000,