The Asyut Project

Institute of Egyptology

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jochem Kahl,

Asyut, situated c. 375 km to the south of Cairo, on midway between two ancient Egyptian capitals Memphis and Thebes, was a political and cultural centre of Middle Egypt since the First Intermediate Period (c. 2100 BCE) at the latest, and remained such to the decline of the Pharaonic epoch. The ...

Altägyptische Philologie

Ägyptologisches Seminar der FU Berlin

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jochem Kahl,  

Altägyptische Philologie (Teilprojekt innerhalb des SFB 980 "Episteme in Bewegung")

DDGLC

Ägyptologisches Seminar

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Tonio Sebastian Richter

CONTACT-INDUCED LANGUAGE CHANGE OF EGYPTIAN LOANWORD LEXICOGRAPHY IN THE LEIPZIG PROJECT DATABASE AND DICTIONARY OF GREEK LOANWORDS IN COPTIC ( DDGLC )   Coptic was an eminent 'language in contact,' mainly borrowing from two donor languages, Greek and Arabic. Over mor more than 1000 ...

Handbuch zur Geschichte der ägyptischen Spätzeit

Ägyptologisches Seminar der FU Berlin

Geplant ist eine umfassende Geschichte der ägyptischen Spätzeit (21.-30. Dynastie, ca. 1075-332 v.Chr.), die sich nicht nur auf die recht wenigen Quellen stützt, die explizite Aussagen zu historischen Vorgängen machen, sondern alle Informationsmöglichkeiten zu erfassen sucht, die uns die ...

Craft Interactions in a New Kingdom Industrial Landscape (Egypt, 1550–1069 BCE)

Dr. Anna K. Hodgkinson (FU Berlin), Dr. Frederik W. Rademakers (British Museum, London: Department of Scientific Research )

Mar 01, 2025

Project Summary This project charts for the first time the interaction between high-temperature technologies in New Kingdom Egypt (1550–1069 BCE). It focuses on a pivotal time in history when industrial-scale glass production was developed alongside growing copper alloy, faience and pigment ...

The Wepwawet temple of Asyut

Institute of Egyptology

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jochem Kahl

Since 2015, an international team of researchers led by Jochem Kahl (Freie Universität Berlin) and Mohamed Abdelrahiem (Sohag University) has been examining archaeological objects in the antiquities magazine at Shutb. These artefacts include blocks from the main temple of Asyut, which were ...

The economy of Aswan

Ägyptologisches Seminar

Egypt, like the Near Eastern provinces of the Byzantine Empire, came under the control of the Caliphate in the mid-7th century CE and was incorporated into an emerging Muslim Empire. Although the long-endorsed ʻPirenne thesisʼ according to which the Arab conquest brought about a collapse of ...

Working in the Suburbs

Ägyptologisches Seminar

Dr. Anna K. Hodgkinson

This project will document and contextualize the archaeological site known as M50.14-16, a domestic workshop in the Main City South at Tell el-Amarna (Amarna: ancient Akhetaten in Middle Egypt, c. 1353–c. 1336 BC). The site is a unique example of an urban domestic workshop for the manufacture of ...