Egyptology

Research themes

Our research themes are:

• Fieldwork and material culture studies: Excavation, finds processing and landscape studies including relations with the desert margins – Ancient Egyptian technology – Museum-based studies – The architecture of tombs and temples – The epigraphic recording of the texts and pictures on tomb walls and ancient quarries
• Textual sources & studies: Primary editions and translations of hieroglyphic, cursive hieratic texts or Coptic texts – The nature and use of Egyptian literature: literary criticism, authorship and audience, transmission and the performance of Egyptian literature, ritual and theology, the study of documentary texts as sources of law, administration and social history – Formal linguistic research into the grammar and structure of the ancient language, its writing systems, and the 3,000-year history of the language
• Integration of material, pictorial and textual sources: The ritual landscape of Egypt – The social, cultural and political history of the Ramesside Period – The Old Kingdom and early Egyptian religion and society – Social History and Economic History – Social Anthropology and Ethnography of Pharaonic Egypt.

We particularly welcome research proposals that match those of our researchers including the collection, analysis and interpretation of primary source materials, the excavation and recording of archaeological sites, the study of all categories of material culture, the study of the ancient Egyptian language and its texts (hieroglyphic, cursive hieratic texts or Coptic) and the recreation of ancient Egyptian society in all its aspects. We also welcome interdisciplinary projects focusing on relations between Egypt and the Near East, and Graeco-Roman Egypt.