With a background in archaeology and ancient history and a PhD in anthropology from the University of Auckland, Josh Emmitt has worked all over the world. Today, he is archaeology curator at Tāmaki Paenga Hira, Auckland War Memorial Museum, where he is helping look after the spectacular international exhibition “Egypt: In the Time of Pharaohs”, which runs until November 12.
Did you have an inkling as a child that you’d grow up to be an archaeologist?
I was always interested in dinosaurs, which is a misconception most archaeologists try to work against, because archaeology doesn’t do dinosaurs. But I had a subscription to a magazine and each week they’d send out a new bit so you could build your own I also loved digging
