Prof. PhDr. Hana Vymazalová, Ph.D.

  hana.vymazalova(at)ff.cuni.cz
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Hana Vymazalová is Professor of Egyptology (since 2025) with long experience in archaeological and documentation work in Egypt. She is interested in the development of the ancient Egyptian economy with her main focus on accounting documents from the 5th dynasty and the economy of the royal mortuary complexes in the Old Kingdom. He also studies ancient Egyptian science, especially the mathematics of ancient Egypt, its development and practical use in scribal practice, and Egyptian medicine. She is the author and co-author of a number of articles and monographs, including Builders and Priest of the Pharaohs: Selected Aspects of the Administration and Economy of the Old-Kingdom Pyramid Complexes (2024), or Medicine of the Ancient Egyptians (2014, 2021). Since 2006 she participates in the Czech archaeological excavation in Abusir and since 2015 she is a member of the Egyptian mission at Djedkare’s Necropolis in south Saqqara. A Professor in Egyptology (since 2025), she lectures at Charles University, Prague.

Academic CV

  • 2025: Professor of Egyptology
  • 2016: Associate Professor of Egyptology (The administration and economy of the pyramid complexes and royal funerary cults in the Old Kingdom)
  • 2001-2005: Ph.D. in Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague (doctoral dissertation: The accounting documents from the papyrus archive of Neferre and their specific terminology)

 

Scholarships and Fellowships

  • 2023: Gale Visiting Egyptology Fellow, Macquarie University, Sydney
  • 2011: scholarship of the Hans-Goedicke-Stiftung
  • 2008-2009: fellowship of Institut français d’archéologie orientale du Caire (Egypt)
  • 2006: scholarship at Archäologisches Institut, Universität Hamburg (Germany)
  • 2004–2005: UNESCO Fellowship Programme in Support of Priority Programme Areas 2004–2005, cooperation with Institut français d’archéologie orientale du Caire (Egypt)
  • 2004: scholarship of The Robert Anderson Research Charitable Trust, London (UK)
  • 2003: scholarship at Archäologisches Institut, Universität Hamburg (Germany)
  • 2000–2001: governmental scholarship at the Faculty of Archaeology, Cairo University (Egypt)

Grants

  • 2024–2026: In Pharaoh’s Shadow: Second Life of a Royal Monument (Czech Science Fundation, No. 24-10886S)
  • 2018–2020: Transformation of the ancient Egyptian society in the late Fifth Dynasty according to the evidence from Djedkare’s pyramid complex (Czech Science Fundation, No. 18-03708S)
  • 2001: Matematika ve starém Egyptě (Fond rozvoje vysokých škol; 2120G5; co-investigator)

Selected bibliography:

Monographs:

  • VYMAZALOVÁ Hana. Abusir XXXI. Builders and Priests of the Pharaohs. Selected aspects of the Administration and Economy of the Construction Projects and Royal Funerary Cults of the Old Kingdom Pyramid Complexes. Prague, 2024.
  • STROUHAL Eugen, VACHALA Břetislav, VYMAZALOVÁ Hana. Medicine of the Ancient Egyptians II. Internal Medicine. Cairo, New York, 2021.
  • STROUHAL Eugen, VACHALA Břetislav, VYMAZALOVÁ Hana. Medicine of the Ancient Egyptians I. Surgery, Gynecology, Obstetrics, and Pediatric. Cairo, New York, 2014, 2021.
  • DOBREV Vassil, VERNER Miroslav, VYMAZALOVÁ Hana. Old Hieratic Palaeography I. The Builders‘ Inscriptions and Mason’s Marks from Saqqara and Abusir. Prague, 2011.
  • VYMAZALOVÁ Hana et al. Abusir XXII. The Tomb of Kaiemtjenenet (AS 38) and the Surrouding Structures AS 57–60. Prague, 2011.
  • VYMAZALOVÁ Hana, COPPENS Filip. Moudrost svitků boha Thovta. Vědecké poznání za vlády faraonů. Praha, 2011.
  • POSENER–KRIÉGER Paule, VERNER Miroslav, VYMAZALOVÁ Hana. Abusir X. The Pyramid Complex of Raneferef. The Papyrus Archive. Prague 2006.

Articles:

  • QUILES Anita, VYMAZALOVÁ Hana, BÁRTA Miroslav, MEGAHED Mohamed. Dating the Egyptian Old Kingdom: The reign of Djedkare (5th dynasty). Radiocarbon, 2025, 67(1), 155-175. doi:10.1017/RDC.2024.100
  • IKRAM Salima, VYMAZALOVÁ Hana, HASHESH Zeinab, GABR Ahmed, QUILES Anita, MEGAHED Mohamed. Pushing Boundaries: Old Kingdom Mummification Revised. In: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 52, 2023, 104272. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104272.
  • VYMAZALOVÁ Hana. Female attendants in the tomb decoration of late Fifth Dynasty queens. In: PITKIN Melanie (ed.). Overseer of Works in Memphis and Thebes. Studies in Honour of Nigel Strudwick. London: Abercromby Press, 2023, 159–168.
  • VYMAZALOVÁ Hana. The funerary domains of Setibhor and other Old Kingdom queens”. In: AYAD Mariam (ed.), Women in Ancient Egypt. Revisiting Power, Agency, and Autonomy, Cairo – New York: The American University on Cairo Press, 2022, 39–57.
  • VYMAZALOVÁ Hana. Papyrus archives from Abusir and the Fifth-Dynasty royal funerary cults. In: COLLOMBERT Philippe, TALLET Pierre (eds.). Les archives administratives de l’Ancien Empire (Orient & Méditerranée 37). Leuven: Peeters, 2021, 1–54.
  • MEGAHED Mohamed, VYMAZALOVÁ Hana. Several relief fragments of female figures from the pyramid complex of Djedkare’s queen at south Saqqara. In: LEGROS Rémi (ed.). Dans les pas d’Imhotep. Mélanges offerts à Audran Labrousse (Orient & Méditerranée 36). Leuven: Peeters, 2021, 43–48.

Updated 19th June 2025

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