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 […]

In the spring season of 2022, the archaeological mission of the Czech institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University discovered the burial of an ancient Egyptian dignitary named Wahibre-mery-Neith. The Abusir tomb can be most probably dated to late 26th Dynasty or early 27th Dynasty (early fifth century BC). The most important title held […]

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 […]

The Czech Institute of Egyptology (Charles University, Prague) has just published THE PYRAMID FIELDS OF ANCIENT EGYPT: A SATELLITE ATLAS. Topography and spatial and temporary development of some twenty historically unique pyramid sites are reviewed and discussed in detail by leading archaeologists and Egyptologists based on the latest high-resolution specifically commissioned satellite images.   The […]

It is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of our dear Egyptian colleague Ramadan Badry Hussein (1971-2022), who was not only an excellent and talented Egyptologist, but first and foremost our very good friend. Dr. Hussein studied at the Cairo University in Egypt and subsequently worked at the Supreme Council of Antiquities of […]

Since more than three decades the Czech Institute of Egyptology has been exploring a cemetery dating to late Dynasty 26 or early Dynasty 27 (second half of the 6th century B.C.E.), In a group of large shaft tombs situated in the western part of the ancient Egyptian necropolis at Abusir a a unique embalming cache […]