The spring part of the archaeological season at Abusir was realized in accordance with the agreement of the Ministry of State for Antiquities. The expedition of the Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts at the Charles University in Prague focused on several major tasks. During spring 2013, the expedition continued its work on the […]
The Czech mission to Egypt from the Czech Institute of Egyptology of the Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts has discovered a court of a princess from ca 2500 B.C. “By this unique discovery we open a completely new chapter in the history of Abusir and Saqqara necropolis” said Miroslav Bárta, director of the […]
In accordance with the research programme of the Czech Institute of Egyptology of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, the first stage of excavations at Abusir planned for the archaeological season 2005-2006 took place in September and October of this year. Its aim was above all the verification of several hypotheses relating to the development […]
Dana.Belohoubkova(at)ff.cuni.cz +420 221 619 609 Academia D. Bělohoubková’s main field of interest is New Kingdom Egypt, especially the archaeology, gender studies, art history, and religious and profane texts of the period. Since her B.A. studies, she specializes in royal ideology and the legitimization of power based on detailed studies of royal and […]
Diana.Mickova(at)ff.cuni.cz photo: © Jana Plavec, Akademie věd ČR Diana Míčková focuses primarily in ancient Egyptian religious texts, mythology, and magic. In her dissertation, she dealt with the texts from the inner side of the outer sarcophagus of the priest Iufaa. She also holds a PhD in Classical Philology, where she focused on the ancient art […]
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN BURIAL CONTAINERS OF THE OLD KINGDOM AND FIRST INTERMEDIATE PERIOD. EVOLUTION, CONTEXTUALISATION AND SIGNIFICANCE The project is supported by the Czech Science Foundation, No. 23-04989S The aim of the project GAČR no. 23-04989S is to scrutinize all types of burial containers from the Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period (stone, wood, […]
Vera.Novakova(at)ff.cuni.cz +420 221 619 610 Academia Věra Nováková graduated in Egyptology, Archive Studies and Auxiliary Historical Sciences at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. She currently continues with the doctoral study in Egyptology (dissertation thesis: Complexity of Ancient Egyptian Society during the First to Sixth Dynasty Based on Written Sources). She […]
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 […]
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 […]
The latest issue of the journal Prague Egyptological Studies brings an obituary of Prof. Břetislav Vachala who passed away recently. Besides that, the issue contains the map of the archaeological structures at Abusir with selected English bibliography. Two reports about excavations of the tomb of Kairsu at Central Abusir follow. Other archaeological reports are devoted […]
