Raven, Maarten J. Prof. dr. Maarten J. Raven is the Curator of the Egypt collection in the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities. He studied Egyptian Languages and Literature, History of Art and Archaeology at the University of Leiden. Since 1975, he performs fieldwork at Saqqara (Egypt). In September 2012, Maarten Raven was appointed Extraordinary Professor of the Museology of Ancient Egypt in the Egyptology department of the Faculty of Humanities.