comprehensive discipline timespan: Egyptian prehistory until Arab conquest (ca. 7000 B.C. – 1st mill. A.D.)

EGYPTOLOGY

ARCHAEOLOGY, HISTORY

LANGUAGE

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• BACHELOR 4x 30 hp, (courses à 7,5 hp)

A: History, Religion, Introduction into Language and Literature, Middle Egyptian (language)

B: Art and Architecture, Topography + GIS, Middle Egyptian grammatik, Middle Egyptian texts C: History and Archaeology; Material culture; Middle

Egyptian texts II and III D: History and Archaeology , Late Egyptian, D-Paper (15 hp) Development of a Masters Program

STUDIES in EGYPTOLOGY

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Language /Text sources

EGYPT

Demotic

Hieroglyphic

Hieratic texts

Coptic

Arabic

Greek

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• Fieldwork • Architecture, Art • Objects • Funerary culture - Daily life - Social

Structures • Analyses - Interdisciplinary Studies • Landscape analysis and GIS applications • Etc. etc….

EGYPTIAN and NUBIAN ARCHAEOLOGY

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EGYPT

NUBIA

Funerary Culture

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Funerary culture is a fascinating and endless subject in Ancient Egypt. The dry desert climate favorised the preservations of the tombs and of tomb contents. Huge amounts of finds are available for studies and treatment.

Architecture and Decoration

Egyptian buildings are largely decorated, by reliefs, paintings or statues, a endless source material for: functional analysis of buildings Art interpretation; Epigraphc studies Studies about rituals, worship, religion Etc, etc. I.HEIN EGYPTOLOGY AT UU 2012-08-16

International Workshop about the Pyramids

May 31st/June -1st 2012

Focus on: architecture urban aspects of pyramid settlements pyramid texts and interpretations history of pyramids and pyramid recording

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Material Culture Studies

H/V-l/15, corridor + corner room

Abundant finds show large potential for studies in material culture. The variety of the objects points towards interpretations of find contexts, typological studies, chronological sequences, quantitative studies, interdisciplinary analysis, ……..

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Interdisciplinary studies (f.i. GEOLOGY)

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f.i: Origins of materials Reconstructioin of trade routes Soil analysis for stratigraphy, landscape and environmental changes Et alii

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Kom el Khawalid

Surface finds from surveys 2003, 2006, 2008

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Kom el Khawalid, Site Map

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NUBIA/SUDAN • NUBIAN Studies have a strong tradition • Scandinavian joint expedition to Sudanese Nubia

(1961-1965) under T. Säve-Söderbergh • Material from this expedition is located at the

storeroom of the Museum Gustavianum • Use for teaching and research • MA thesis: digitalization and GIS application to

reconstruct the ancient landscape and sites • 3D-Laserscanning for recording and technology

studies • Studies of Nubian cultures, Palaeolithic and neolithic

sites, A-group, C-group, Kerma , Pharaonic, Meroitic culture

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SUDAN - DAMS currently 5 dams are planned on the Nile Rich cultural heritage in the region Cooperation with the Nordic Africa Institute meeting end of November 2012 to develop further activities I.HEIN EGYPTOLOGY AT UU 2012-08-16