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Czech Institute of Egyptology

The Czech Institute of Egyptology was founded in 1958, as a successor to the Egyptological Seminar at the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University in Prague. Its founding father was Frantisek Lexa, an expert in Late Egyptian writing. The first fieldwork undertaken by the new Institute in the 1960s was in Nubia, where Prague Egyptologists took an active part in the rescue of Nubian sites and artefacts from dam construction. The Nubian series of Institute publications, published mainly in the 1970s and 1980s, are particularly important as they are the sole record of sites that are no longer accessible to researchers.

The Institute started work at its most famous excavation site, Abusir, just after beginning its Nubian campaign. Abusir, the northernmost part of the Saqqara necropolis, has produced an unexpected richness of material, including a royal cemetery of 5th Dynasty pyramids, a Necropolis of officials dating from the 4th to 6th Dynasties, and Saite-Persian shaft tombs. The excavations are still continuing, with only a few months break every year during the intense heat of the summer months. Studies at the Abusir necropolis are making huge contributions to our knowledge of the society and culture of the Memphite region. Recently, a new area has been added to the Czech archaeological permit area – a zone in Western desert, in the area of Hayez, Bahariya oasis and work is starting there.

A range of archaeological work at the site are published in the Abusir series, which now extends to number VII. The archaeological reports on Abusir are not the only part of publishing activities – these include also broader syntheses and future plans include a special series devoted to the heritage of Ancient and Islamic Egypt. A short series will also report on the Hayez expedition. Future plans also include a dissertation series.

The future looks bright for Czech Egyptology, now celebrating over 50 years of scholarship. The recent merging of the Institute with the National Centre for Egyptology has brought the financial and scholarly resources of the discipline together and, in the next few years, it is hoped that the program of publications will become ever larger and more prestigious.

Further details about the Institute's work can be found by clicking on this link

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Abusir XVII - The Shaft Tomb of Iufaa, Volume 1: Archaeology
by Ladislav Bares and Kveta Smolarikova
The first volume includes the description of the archaeological situation and finds from the main burial chamber and the place of funerary cult in front of the eastern enclosure wall of the tomb (L. Bare), including the subsidiary burial chambers (K. Smoláriková). Separate chapters deal, among others, with the pottery (K. Smoláriková), amulets (V. Gae Callender), analysis of anthropological finds (E. Strouhal), architectural ...
Paperback. Price GB £73.00

Abusir & Saqqara in the year 2000
by M Barta
This collection of articles provides an overview, on the occasion of the millennium, of Czech work at the Egyptian cemeteries of Abusir and Saqqara in the last 50 years. The contributions are grouped by period and range from studies of Early Dynastic ...
Paperback. Price GB £35.00

Abusir V: The Cemeteries of Abusir South I
by Miroslav Barta
This handsome report (in English) describes work carried out between 1991 and 1993 on a number of Old Kingdom tombs, mostly of lesser officials. Each tomb is given a full treatment with archaeology, architecture, decoration, epigraphic descriptions and a catalogue of significant finds ... but not pottery which will be published separately. The volume is illustrated with line drawings. Contents: The tomb of Ity; the Lake of Abusir tombs; the tomb ...
Hardback. Price GB £75.00

Abusir XIII: Abusir South 2: Tomb Complex of the Vizier Qar, His Sons Qar Junior and Senedjemib and Iykai
edited by Miroslav Bárta
The current volume is the first of the three planned publications dedicated to the complex of the vizier Qar and his sons, dating to the Sixth Dynasty, reign of Teti - Pepy II. It comprises a full record of the tombs of the vizier Qar, Qar Junior, Senedjemib and Tjenti accompanied by chapters on the geology and geophysical survey of Abusir South, faunal and floral remains from the tombs, and anthropological evaluation of the human remains. The ...
Hardback. Price GB £120.00

Chronology and Archaeology in Ancient Egypt: The Third Millennium BC
edited by Hana Vymazalova and Miroslav Barta
The nineteen contributions to this volume approach the subject of Egyptian chronology of the Third Millennium BC from different perspectives: some of them concern the use of modern methods (14C) and natural sciences in Egyptology; others analyze the development of various aspects of the Egyptian culture during the whole period of the Old Kingdom and the First Intermediate Period, or try to specify the date of certain monuments and personalities. ...
Hardback. Temporarily out of stock at publishers - will be delayed. Orders will be recorded. Price GB £50.00

Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology: Proceedings of a Conference, Prague 2004
edited by Miroslav Bárta
During 2004 a conference dedicated to the history, art, archaeology and language of Old Kingdom Egypt (2700 - 2200 BC) was organised by the Czech Institute of Egyptology in Prague. The publication of the conference makes available a representative overview of the latest research and trends presented by more than thirty Egyptologists, most of them leading experts in their respective fields of specialisation. 300p, b/w illus, pls (Czech ...
Hardback. Price GB £50.00

Sinuhe, the Bible, and the Patriarchs
by Miroslav Bárta
The legendary figure of Sinuhe, an Egyptian administrator who fled Egypt upon the assassination of the king later to return without reprisals, is preserved in the Tales of Sinhue found on a number of papyri and ostraca. This study not only includes a translation of the Tale, with commentary, but goes further to explore the historical and political context in which it was written in Middle Kingdom Egypt. Arguing that there is no evidence to ...
Paperback. Price GB £25.00

Abusir: Secrets of the Desert and the Pyramids
edited by Hana Beneovská and Petra Vlcková
This is the catalogue of the exhibition Abusir, held at the Náprstek Museum in 2005. The catalogue presents for the first time a complex overview of the archaeological work and its results at Abusir, showing the activities of Czech and German ...
Paperback. Price GB £55.00

Abusir XV: The Stone Vessels and Stone Statues from the Mortuary Complex of Neferre at Abusir
by Petra Vlcková, with contributions by Hana Beneovská, Jaromír Leichmann, Jana Hrubá
An assemblage of stone vessels and stone statues belongs to the extensive archaeological material brought to light during the excavations conducted by the Czech Institute of Egyptology in the mortuary complex of king Neferre (5th Dynasty) at Abusir. Neferres' assemblage represents a unique archaeological complex where the artefacts are complemented with their recorded archaeological context (structure, site, etc). The monograph includes not only ...
Paperback. Price GB £35.00

Unearthing Ancient Egypt: Fifty years of the Czech Archaeological exploration in Egypt
by Miroslav Verner and Hana Benesovská, with a foreword by Zahi Hawass and Michal Stehlík
The first half-century of existence of the Czech Institute of Egyptology is described in this volume. The Institute started in Nubia, taking part in the rescue expeditions of the UNESCO campaign to save the monuments endangered by the rising waters of the Aswan dam. However, it was the site of Abusir, in the heart of the Memphis pyramid fields, which became almost synonymous with the Czech Institute of Egyptology. The excavation works in Abusir ...
Hardback. Price GB £30.00