Dear readers, We are delighted to present the third English issue of Prague Egyptological Studies, a peer-reviewed journal that concentrates on studies in the history, archaeology, architecture, religion, language and art of the Third Millennium BC Egypt. In addition, we likewise include book reviews concerning recently published monographs in the above-mentioned fields. In the […]
We would like to cordially invite you to the workshop entitled The rise and development of the solar cult and architecture in Ancient Egypt. This one-day workshop is organized as a final event of the first year of the GAČR project “The rise and development of the solar cult and architecture in Third Millennium BC […]
Czech Science Foundation finished the evaluation of the project proposals submitted in the year 2017. It will support also two new projects of the principal investigators based at the Czech Institute of Egyptology. Economic Complexity in the Ancient Near East. Management of Resources and Taxation in the 3rd and 2nd Millennium BC (GA ČR […]
In November 2017, a series of lectures by renowned Egyptologists Helen and Nigel Strudwick will take place in Prague, at the Czech Institute of Egyptology (Prague 1, Celetná 20, 4th floor, Room no. 419). The lectures in English will be for the students of Egyptologists, but they are also open for public. Programme of the […]
Archaeological exploration in 2012 and 2017 brought to light evidence for a hitherto entirely unknown temple complex. It was discovered at the eastern edge of the Czech concession at Abusir, in an area that forms a natural transition between a terrace of the Nile and the floodplain. The complex of 32 × 51 m in […]
September 4th and 5th the Faculty of Arts hosted international workshop on topic of patron-client relations. Even though the majority of the participants were Egyptologists, the lectures on subjects concerning Ancient Near East (Lena Fijalkowská, Jana Mynářová), Ancient Rome (Bertrand Augier), late Antiquity (Fabrizio Oppedisano) or Celtic world (Marco Martin) represent important contributions to the […]
PRAGUE 25–28 JUNE 2018 We are pleased to announce that the call for papers and posters for CRE 2018 is now open! The abstracts should be submitted by 3 December 2017 to cre2018prague@gmail.com and they should not be longer than 1000 characters (spaces included). Presentations should last max. 20 minutes + 5 minutes discussion, […]
During the first September week, the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague (Faculty of Arts, Main Building, Room no. 325) will host the interdisciplinary workshop Generous Patrons Loyal Clients. The workshop is organised by Phd candidates of the Czech Institute of Egyptology, Martina Bardoňová and Věra Nováková. The workshop is dedicated to the topic of patronage […]
It has been eight years now since the expedition directed by the Czech Institute of Egyptology commenced its comprehensive archaeological and palaeoenvironmental research at Jebel Sabaloka near the Sixth Nile Cataract in central Sudan. The remains preserved in this area fall within the Mesolithic (ninth–sixth millennia BC), Neolithic (fifth–fourth millennia BC), and Late Meroitic through […]
The XI. Tempeltagung takes place in Prague this week, from Wednesday, 24th May until Saturday, 27th May. It is organized by the Czech Institute of Egyptology. The conference would like to break through the boundaries separating temple from tomb and focus on the many different types of interaction that existed between these two crucial expressions of […]
The annual “Identities in the Middle East Workshop,” organized and hosted by the Department of Near Eastern and African Studies at Charles University, will be inaugurated with a two-day discussion of late-Ottoman identities.
A consorcium of universities whose members include Charles University, University of Kent, Freie Universität Berlin, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier III and Universidade do Porto has received a grant from the European Union as part of the scheme Horizon 2020 for its project Migration and Modernity – Historical and Cultural Challenges (MOVES).
The 7th annual "Screen Industries in East-Central Europe" (SIECE) conference, which took place in Prague on 22-23 May 2018, focused on current developments in online distribution of audiovisual content. The main conference themes also included Internet television and European Commission’s Digital Single Market strategy.
The winners of the 2018 EU Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards, Europe’s top honour in the field, were announced on 15 May by the European Commission and Europa Nostra, the leading European heritage network. St. Wenceslas Rotunda in Prague won the award in the category "CONSERVATION".
On 28 April 2018, the fifth year of the Open Square Festival was held on Jan Palach Square. Visitors could attend exhibitions, lectures, workshops, concerts, guided walks, and boat trips.
Attentat 1942, a historically-accurate video game about the Nazi occupation of former Czechoslovakia, recently won the “Most Amazing Game Award” at the prestigious A MAZE 2018 Festival in Berlin.
As part of the Ibero-American Week, organised on 19 - 27 April by the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs in cooperation with representatives of Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries in Prague, the Centre for Ibero-American Studies at CUFA organised a symposium Cien años de relaciones entre Checoslovaquia/República Checa y el mundo hispánico/lusobrasileño.
Linguistics Prague is a conference aimed at graduate students of linguistics and related fields. This year, the programme consists of thre days of plenary talks, sessions, workshops, and social activities.
Charles University is happy to invite the academic community to an honorary degree ceremony in which the title of doctor of philosophical sciences, honoris causa, will be awarded to the renowned archaeologist, professor Thomas Evan Levy.
Archaeological exploration in 2012 and 2017 brought to light evidence for a hitherto entirely unknown temple complex. It was discovered at the eastern edge of the Czech concession at Abusir, in an area that forms a natural transition between a terrace of the Nile and the floodplain. The complex of 32 × 51 m in […]
The mission of the Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague has recently made an unexpected discovery at Abusir South that once again highlights the importance of this cemetery of the Old Kingdom officials. Work commenced in 2009 on a large mastaba termed AS 54, followed by several seasons of excavations. […]
At the age of almost 62 years, reis Muhammad Abduh el-Kereti, generally known as reis Tallal, has died due to a severe illness. His name is inseparably connected with dozens of successful years of the Czech Egyptologists working in Egypt. He started to work with the then Czechoslovak archaeological mission at Abusir already as a […]
The pyramid necropolis at Abusir (EAR), which the Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University has been excavating for almost 55 years, proved once again that it is one of the most important sites in Egypt. During this autumn, Czech Mission explored a tomb, which is part of a small cemetery to the […]
The spring part of the archaeological season at Abusir was realized in accordance with the agreement of the Ministry of State for Antiquities. The expedition of the Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts at the Charles University in Prague focused on several major tasks. During spring 2013, the expedition continued its work on the […]
On Friday on the 22nd of March 2013, shortly after sunset, the long-time foreman of workmen at the Czech archaeological excavations in Egypt, reis Ahmad el-Kereti, passed away after a long and hard illness. Reis Ahmad took part at Czech excavations in Abusir for almost four decades, and together with his older brother, reis Talal, […]
The Czech mission to Egypt from the Czech Institute of Egyptology of the Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts has discovered a court of a princess from ca 2500 B.C. “By this unique discovery we open a completely new chapter in the history of Abusir and Saqqara necropolis” said Miroslav Bárta, director of the […]
The story of the exploration of the mysterious tomb of priest Neferinpu, who lived in ancient Egypt in the 24th century BC has been unfolding already for two years and its end is still nowhere within our sight. The tomb was discovered in the spring of 2006, and in the same season, the chapel which […]
The tomb of the official Menekhibnekau is the third structure of its kind explored in the group of large shaft tombs from mid 1st century BC in the southwestern part of the ancient Egyptian cemetery at Abusir. The tomb lies about 40 m to the southeast of the tomb complex of priest Iufaa, whose intact […]
In accordance with the research programme of the Czech Institute of Egyptology of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, the first stage of excavations at Abusir planned for the archaeological season 2005-2006 took place in September and October of this year. Its aim was above all the verification of several hypotheses relating to the development […]
