The Egyptian archeological expedition under the direction of Dr. Mohamed Megahed at south Saqqara succeeded in finding a unique tomb of the dignitary Khuwy who lived at the end of the 5th Dynasty of the Old Kingdom. The tomb was found during the excavation and documentation activities of the area. The tomb consists of a […]
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 […]
After two weeks of work at its archaeological concession on the Abusir pyramid field, the current expedition of the Czech Institute of Egyptology of the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University discovered a unique burial complex of the royal confidant and priest Kaires. The tomb is located in the heart of the pyramid field […]
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the Palermo Stone carried out by some Egyptologists from the Charles University in Prague shed new light on this unique historical document from Ancient Egypt.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 […]
A metal vessel deposited in a tomb at the Egyptian site Abusir 5,000 years ago was made of a material that was used concurrently in distant Anatolia (present-day Turkey). The article “Invisible connections. Early Dynastic and Old Kingdom Egyptian metalwork in the Egyptian Museum of Leipzig University” published in the Journal of Archaeological Science shows […]
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 […]
