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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Dear colleagues, The Czech Institute of Egyptology has the pleasure of inviting MA and PhD students registered at the Cairo University to apply for a 3-month-scholarship at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic). During their stay the students will have the opportunity to study in the library of the Institute, and consult their projects with […]
