Conference: Egyptology & Zoology. Animal Behaviour and its Reflection in Ancient Egyptian Culture Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, September 23–24, 2025 On September 23 and 24, 2025, the Czech Institute of Egyptology organises a two-day international workshop focused on how the physiology and behaviour of animals (ethology) found a reflection in ancient Egyptian mythology, […]
The online lecture by Marcelo Campagno, Patronage as a Logic of Social Organization in Ancient Egypt, will be held on 30 July 2025 at 14:00. Link for the registration is here: https://cesnet.zoom.us/meeting/register/qs0Q3ePRTw2J_JS5KhIOrw The abstract for the lecture is here: OLS Abstract MC
The second day of the seminar: Collapse of the Old Kingdom as a multidisciplinary problem will be live-streamed here: https://www.youtube.com/live/9D5ywTJuSVI
The seminar “Collapse of the Old Kingdom as a Multidisciplinary Problem” will be livestreamed on YouTube.The link to the livestream is here: https://www.youtube.com/live/a5eoyOK3RAA The updated programme is available here: Prague Yale conference, timetable
Abusir and Saqqara in the Year 2025 History and Archaeology of the Ancient Memphite Necropoleis Charles University, Prague, June 23–27, 2025 From June 23 to 27, 2025, the Czech Institute of Egyptology organizes the sixth Abusir and Saqqara international conference at the premises of Charles University, Prague. The five-day conference focuses on primary research covering […]
We invite you to an online lecture titled: On wr.t-xnr and Hm.t-nTr. Can We Speak of Parallel Careers for the High Priest and His Wife?, presented by Dana Bělohoubková on May 23, 2025, at 10:00 AM CET. Registration for Zoom here. Promotion here. Abstract here.
Collapse of the Old Kingdom as a multidisciplinary problem Prague, 2.7 – 3.7. 2025 We kindly invite you to attend a seminar organised by the Czech Institute of Egyptology, Charles University, and Yale University. The seminar’s subject is the 4.2 ka BP collapse of the Egyptian Old Kingdom. We aim to analyze this problem […]
Abusir and Saqqara in the Year 2025 History and Archaeology of the Ancient Memphite Necropoleis Charles University, Prague, June 23–27, 2025 From June 23 to 27, 2025, the Czech Institute of Egyptology organizes the sixth Abusir and Saqqara international conference at the premises of Charles University, Prague. The five-day conference focuses on primary research covering […]
The book by Hana Vymazalová, Abusir XXXI. Builders and Priests of the Pharaohs: Selected Aspects of the Administration and Economy of the Old-Kingdom Pyramid Complexes, is being released. Annotation: This volume delves into the pyramid complexes of Egyptian pharaohs, examining them in the broader context of the Old Kingdom state, royal ideology, society, and beliefs. […]
We invite you to an online lecture titled: The Overlooked Nubian Women of the First Intermediate Period, presented by W. Ejsmond on January 15, 2025, at 10:00 AM CET. Registration here. Abstract here.
The honorary doctorate will recognize not only more than thirty years of academic and journalistic work of Professor Garton Ash, but also his social attitudes, which are an inspiring and important voice for Central and Eastern Europe’s future direction, especially in the difficult period the regions are going through.
You are kindly invited to two unique academic events marking the launch of the COLUMN project (Colonial Past of Universities: Materiality and New Forms of Cooperation): a lecture by Prof. Loretta Feris and the premiere screening of the documentary film UnRest.
Renowned political scientist Robert L. Funk from the University of Chile will explore the leading candidates, the key issues shaping the campaigns, and what is at stake for Chilean democracy.
Prof. Paul Chaisty, a leading researcher in area studies and political science specializing in Russia and Ukraine, is offering a block seminar entitled Area Studies for Researchers: Opportunities, Challenges, and Controversies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, for the 2025/2026 academic year.
The Faculty of Arts, Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic) is seeking a postdoctoral researcher in comparative area studies. As part of the project funded by Horizon Europe (ERA Chair in Multidisciplinary Area Studies, ERA-AREAS), this post holder will participate in the newly created Center for Multidisciplinary Area Studies (CenMAS).
The Faculty of Arts, Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic) is seeking a research group leader in comparative area studies. As part of the project funded by Horizon Europe (ERA Chair in Multidisciplinary Area Studies, ERA-AREAS), this post holder will be responsible for coordinating a newly created Center for Multidisciplinary Area Studies (CenMAS).
Only one project from the Czech Republic has succeeded in the most prestigious European ERC Advanced Grant competition this year: the research of historian Kateřina Čapková from the Department of Middle Eastern Studies.
Charles University is proud to announce that it has – as the first university in the Czech Republic – successfully defended the prestigious HR Excellence in Research Award (HR Award), granted by the European Commission.
Updated 12 June, 12:00 | On Wednesday, after noon, the Police of the Czech Republic intervened in the main building of the Faculty of Arts of Charles University (náměstí Jana Palacha 1/2, Prague 1) - they were securing persons because of suspicious, potentially risky statements on social networks. There is no danger, everyone is fine. The event is over, the situation is under control, we are communicating with the Police. The building is open and in operation without restrictions.
In the spring season of 2022, the archaeological mission of the Czech institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University discovered the burial of an ancient Egyptian dignitary named Wahibre-mery-Neith. The Abusir tomb can be most probably dated to late 26th Dynasty or early 27th Dynasty (early fifth century BC). The most important title held […]
The Czech Institute of Egyptology (Charles University, Prague) has just published THE PYRAMID FIELDS OF ANCIENT EGYPT: A SATELLITE ATLAS. Topography and spatial and temporary development of some twenty historically unique pyramid sites are reviewed and discussed in detail by leading archaeologists and Egyptologists based on the latest high-resolution specifically commissioned satellite images. The […]
Since more than three decades the Czech Institute of Egyptology has been exploring a cemetery dating to late Dynasty 26 or early Dynasty 27 (second half of the 6th century B.C.E.), In a group of large shaft tombs situated in the western part of the ancient Egyptian necropolis at Abusir a a unique embalming cache […]
The latest issue of the journal Prague Egyptological Studies brings an obituary of Prof. Břetislav Vachala who passed away recently. Besides that, the issue contains the map of the archaeological structures at Abusir with selected English bibliography. Two reports about excavations of the tomb of Kairsu at Central Abusir follow. Other archaeological reports are devoted […]
On August 30, the official opening of the exceptional exhibition dedicated to the “Kings of the Sun” took place in the beautiful representative rooms of the pantheon of the National Museum in Prague. Leading members of the governments of the Czech Republic and the Arab Republic of Egypt, the Czech Parliament and the Ministry of […]
Finds from the Czech archaeological campaigns in Abusir together with numerous other artefacts of unprecedented historical and artistic value have finally arrived in Prague following months of preparations. The precious objects came to Prague from Egypt, Germany and various locations in the Czech Republic under high security conditions following months of negotiations. Starting on August […]
The year 2019 was important for the Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University. It celebrated the 100th anniversary of the beginning of Egyptological lectures in Czech language at the Czech part of the university in Prague. In addition, six decades from the establishment of the Cairo department of the Czech (former Czechoslovak) […]
In light of the current global situation, ongoing developments and individual states’ policies over the next few months, we regretfully have to inform you that the upcoming “Abusir and Saqqara in the Year 2020” (planned to take place from June 29 through July 3, 2020) has to be cancelled. Despite the fact that we will […]
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Czech Egyptology, the Czech Institute of Egyptology, the Ministry of Antiquities and the Embassy of the Czech Republic have the pleasure to invite you to a seminar held in the Ministry of Antiquities, Ahmed Pasha Kamal Hall, 2 El-Adel Abu Bakr, on October 30, 2019 […]
The new trade mark will be awarded to products and technologies that are up to the challenge of the extreme conditions of the Czech archaeological concession in Abusir in Egypt and expeditions in Sudan. Generators, cameras, air-conditioning equipment, as well as textiles, clothing and footwear. These are just some of the array of products and […]
