 Emery obtained the Chair of Egyptology at University College London in 1951, and was a professor of Egyptology in London from 1951 to 1970.He was elected to the British Academy Fellowship in 1959.His principal publications are "Great tombs of the 1st dynasty", (3 volumes) 1949-58; "Archaic Egypt", 1961; and "Egypt in Nubia", 1965.