Research

Research projects

The research projects of the department cover a wide range of topics, from the archaeology, language and society of ancient Egypt to Egyptian religion, cultural interaction of Egypt with her neighbours and Heritage Studies.

The cemetery of the early Old Kingdom at Zawyet Sultan

Zawyet Sultan: Archaeology and heritage in Middle Egypt

Cologne Aswan Summer School in Heritage Studies

Epigraphic works in the temple of Kom Ombo

Digital database of the early inscriptions of Egypt

Preserving the Book of the Dead of Iahtesnakht

History of ancient Egyptian lexicography

Society and culture in the Old and Middle Kingdom

Abgeschlossene Forschungsprojekte

Cologne Aswan Summer School in Heritage Studies

Society and culture in the Old and Middle Kingdom

Digitale Erschließung der frühen Inschriften Ägyptens (2020-2023)

Der Friedhof des frühen Alten Reiches von Zawyet Sultan (2020-2023)

PhD Projects

Current PhD Projects

Coffins as Communicative Media for Religious Visual Strategies

Emotions in Ancient Egypt. Concepts – Standards – Functions

Moulding Love: Female Egyptianising Terracotta Figurines

Multimodal communication in Middle Kingdom texts

Social networks in the Middle Kingdom

Social protocol in ancient Egypt

The Appropriation of Egyptian Symbolism in Late Bronze Age Burials of the Levant: Towards an Entangled History of Culture Contact

Finished PhD Projects

Dynamics in Middle Kingdom Economy

Socio-Economic Relations in Ptolemaic Pathyris

Transformations of Dahshur’s cultural landscape