Mark J. Smith

Mark J. Smith is a Retired Professor of Egyptology and Lady Wallis Budge Fellow in Egyptology at University College, University of Oxford. He is affiliated with the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. His research focuses on ancient Egyptian religion, especially conceptions of the afterlife, and the study of ritual texts. He collaborates on projects like publishing Bodl. MS. Egypt. a.3(P) and demotic graffiti from Gebel es-Silsila.

Smith teaches all aspects of ancient Egyptian civilization, history, and languages (Old Egyptian to Coptic), including scripts and religious practices. His research emphasizes understudied museum texts and the intellectual life of Graeco-Roman Egyptian priests.

Notable publications include Following Osiris: Perspectives on the Osirian Afterlife (2017) and Traversing Eternity (2009). He has contributed to over a dozen scholarly articles analyzing ritual texts, orthography, and historical events like Antiochos IV's expulsion from Egypt.