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the Palermo Stone carried out by some Egyptologists from the Charles University in Prague shed new light on this unique historical document from Ancient Egypt.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 […]
From 25th to 28th June 2018 the Current Research in Egyptology conference was held in Prague, at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. There were more than 100 attending people from different countries and institutions. The variety of themes was very wide, covering every period of ancient Egyptian and Nubian history, their society, religious life, […]
The Czech Institute of Egyptology of the Faculty of Arts of Charles University under the leadership of Prof. Miroslav Bárta has been developing long-term research into the dynamics of the development of complex societies based on the study of the anatomy of the internal dynamics of ancient Egyptian civilization. Since 2006, one of the fundamental […]
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 […]
