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 […]
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 Czech Institute of Egyptology is pleased to invite you to the lecture by Hannah Vogel – An Overview of Disability in Ancient Egypt: Where we are and work to follow. The lecture will take place on October 31, 10:50-12:25, in room C221. Abstract: Disability is a complex and multifaceted experience. Human bodily variation, which […]
The Czech Institute of Egyptology is pleased to invite you to the lecture by Prof. Eric H. Cline 1177 BC After 1177 BCE: The Survival of Civilizations The lecture will take place on July 15, 16:00–18:00 in The Green Lecture Hall, Celetná 20. In the years after 1177 BCE, many of the Late Bronze Age […]
On Friday, November 11, 2022, the exhibition The Charm of Discovery: From Hieroglyphs to Tutankhamun will open to the visitors of the Charles University’s Karolinum. The exhibition, which was prepared by the Czech Institute of Egyptology of the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University, commemorates two significant anniversaries that Egyptology is celebrating in 2022. […]
The Czech Institute of Egyptology (CIE) organises in collaboration with the International Committee for Egyptian and Sudan Archaeological Museums and Collections (CIPEG) of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) a half day symposium to present to an international group of curators of Egyptological museum collections an overview and update on recent research and excavations of the […]
On June 16 and 17, the Czech Institute of Egyptology organised a two-day international workshop dedicated to aspects of tradition and innovation in ancient Egypt. The workshop specifically focussed on the confrontation between (local) customs and novel concepts that functioned as a catalyst for important social and religious developments, leading to various processes of modification […]
