In between August 27 and 30, the Czech Institute of Egyptology hosted the 7th Ptolemaic Summer School. At this biennial international gathering, scholars working on Ptolemaic inscriptions in temples (Edfu, Esna, Dendara, Kom Ombo, Philae etc) and tombs as well as on artefacts, such as stelae and offering tables, meet to discuss problematic text passages from […]
In between August 22 and 25, the Czech Institute of Egyptology hosted a small international workshop, focusing on how individuals as well as priestly communities adapt to ongoing political-ideological as well as socio-economic changes and reshape its identity/-ies, during two distinct periods of ancient Egyptian history: the Amarna age, and the Ptolemaic and Roman […]
Karolinum, Prague, 2nd August – 8th September 2019 This year a century will pass since the first lectures in Egyptology, which associate professor František Lexa held at the Charles University in the summer semester of 1919. Czech Egyptology has made giant strides forward since then, and the Czech Institute of Egyptology of the Faculty of […]
The third, final, workshop discussing recent research on the sun cult in ancient Egypt “Solar cult and royal ideology in Ancient Egypt: old evidences, new discoveries, latest approaches” will be organized by the GAČR project “The Rise and Development of the Solar Cult and Architecture in 3rd Mill. BC” on June, 25th-26th, 2019 in the […]
Current Research in Egyptology 2018 is a collection of papers and posters presented at the nineteenth symposium of the prestigious international student conference held at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague on 25th–28th June 2018. The Prague conference was attended by more than 100 participants from various countries and institutions. The range of topics […]
Potomac Institute for Policy Studies (Arlington VA) has published a report Punctuated Equilibria Paradigm and Security in the Modern World, together with the Embassy of the Czech Republic in the United States of America, Charles University and Czech Armed Forces. The full report is freely downloadable on this link. Among the contributors is Prof. Miroslav Bárta, […]
The Czech Institute of Egyptology (prior to 1993, the Czechoslovak Institute of Egyptology) celebrates its 60th anniversary in the year 2018. The beginnings of its activities in the field are closely tied to the UNESCO campaigns organised in the early 1960s in order to save monuments of ancient Nubia in connection with the construction of […]
Czech Science Foundation finished the evaluation of the project proposals submitted in the year 2018. It will support also one new project of the principal investigator based at the Czech Institute of Egyptology. Continuity, Discontinuity and Change Adaptation Strategies of Individuals and Communities in Egypt at Times of Internal and External Transformations GA ČR […]
This year, Czech Egyptology celebrates sixty years since the foundation of the Czech (former Czechoslovak) Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague. The institute was founded in Prague on 1 October 1958 based on a decision of the government of the Czechoslovak Republic. Professor František Lexa, a member of the Czechoslovak Academy of […]
Recent investigation on the Palermo Stone carried out by some Egyptologists from the Charles University in Prague shed new light on this unique historical document from Ancient Egypt. For the first time the Palermo Stone has been investigated by means of an innovative technology of photo-documentation and reproduction (Reflectance Transformation Imaging, shortened as “RTI”) which […]
