# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kara-cooney
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:49:21.130Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kara-cooney"
name: "Kara Cooney"
slug: "kara-cooney"
description: "Kathlyn M. (Kara) Cooney is an American Egyptologist and archaeologist. She is a professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) specializing in craft production, coffin studies, and economies in the ancient world, particularly the Ramesside era and chair of the Department of Near Eastern Language and Cultures at UCLA.\nAs well as for her scholarly work, she is known for hosting television shows on ancient Egypt on the Discovery Channel as well as for writing a popular-press book on the subject."
tagline: "American egyptologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dr_Kara_Cooney_presenting_at_the_Los_Angeles_County_Museum_of_Art%2C_June_2014.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1972-03-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.05
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.152917333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/KaraCooney"
    handle:    "KaraCooney"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/karacooneyegyptologist"
    handle:    "karacooneyegyptologist"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1582097/"
    handle:    "nm1582097"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.karacooney.com/"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "قرة كوني"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%86%D9%89"
    title: "كارا كونى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara_Cooney"
    title: "Kara Cooney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara_Cooney"
    title: "Kara Cooney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara_Cooney"
    title: "Kara Cooney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara_Cooney"
    title: "Kara Cooney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara_Kuni"
    title: "Kara Kuni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B8"
    title: "Кетлин Куни"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6367499"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1485673"
    title: "Kara Cooney"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump