Dr. Stuart Munro-Hay, recently deceased, was an Egyptologist who, after excavating at the ancient Ethiopian royal capital city, Aksum, turned his attention to Ethiopian studies. He studied for his doctorate at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London, and was a Research Associate at the Centre for African Studies, University of Cambridge. Later he taught Archaeology and Ancient African History at the Universities of Khartoum and Nairobi.