Orly Goldwasser

Orly Goldwasser is an Israeli Egyptologist, professor of Egyptology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.^[1]

Orly Goldwasser was born in Tel Aviv in 1951, received her B.A. at Tel Aviv University, and continued studying at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem where she was awarded her M.A. and PhD degrees. She occupies the chair of Egyptology at the Hebrew University, and is an Honorary Professor at the University of Göttingen. She was guest professor at the University of Göttingen, Harvard University and at the Collège de France.^{[citation needed]}

Her main interests are the semiotics of the hieroglyphic script,^[2] intercultural relations: Egypt and the Levant, metaphors and literary images in ancient Egyptian literature and the origin of the alphabet. She is the discoverer of the classification system in the hieroglyphic script.