Arwa Kharobi, one of the two Post-Docs from the Bournemouth University Team under the supervision of Prof. Helmut Schutkowski, presented at this year’s 21st Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BABAO 2019), which took place from 13th until 15th of September in London. Her Poster-Presentation was entitled: A Tooth for […]
Details »
Silvia Gómez-Senovilla, Vienna’s PhD Student was invited to present besides a paper also a poster at the VI Congreso Iberoamericano de Egiptología in Madrid (Dec. 2018). Feedback from the scientific community outside one’s team is always vital to young researchers. Besides attending lectures at the University in Vienna for her PhD studies, Silvia visits conferences […]
Details »
Our team members do research, analyses, reading, talking … and presenting. During the periodic research visits to Vienna, BU’s PhD Student Nina Maaranen, was asked to present her part of the Research Work being carried out at the Bournemouth University. She was happy to do so at the Natural History Museum, which supported the Hyksos […]
Details »
Sarah Vilain successfully sampled Middle Bronze jars and jugs from Sidon, Lebanon, for absorbed residue analysis. The use of GC/MS will help us to learn more about goods traded between the Eastern Nile delta and the Levantine coast. Prof. Ben Stern from the Bradford University and his Lab will undertake the comprehensive analyses. This work […]
Details »
We are delighted to welcome Arwa Kharobi, a Syro-Palestinian national to support Holger Schutkowski and his team @ the BU. The Bournemouth University has kindly funded this post to expand the team’s resources. After having completed her first post-doctoral research at Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (Belgium), funded by the Université Libre de Bruxelles […]
Details »
The PI, Prof. Bietak and Post Doc Sarah Vilain (RT6) attended this year’s Crossroads Conference in Prague. Both lectures took place on Thursday, 13th of September, at the Charles University. Manfred Bietak presented, How can we track the origins of foreign cults in Egypt: The example of Avaris/Tell el-Dab‘a and Sarah’s presentation was titled The […]
Details »
Andrew Curry, contributing editor of the publication of the Archaeological Institute of America, recently interviewed the Hyksos research team. You can read the whole article online or in the latest print issue (September/October 2018, Vol. 71, No 5) of ARCHAEOLOGY Hyksos-foreign-rulers_Article in Archaeology For the first time Prof. Bietak and his team members shared their […]
Details »
Manfred Bietak, PI and Head of the ERC Advanced Grant ‘The Enigma of the Hyksos’ at the Austrian Academy of Sciences will give an account on the unexpected new results of his project in a final keynote lecture at the closing session of the 64th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale in Innsbruck. The closing session of this […]
Details »
Vom Weltwunder zum Weltreich Das pharaonische Ägypten, ein Überblick. Mit Manfred Bietak, Ägyptologe an der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Gestaltung: Robert Weichinger Prof. Manfred Bietak gibt täglich einen kurzen Überblick auf die historischen Geschehnisse des Alten Ägyptens. Diese Sendereihe findet die ganze Woche statt, täglich um 17:55 und besticht durch Informationsinhalt und Kürze. Egypt – […]
Details »
Our PI (Principal Investigator), Prof. Dr. Manfred Bietak was invited by the Friends of the Weltmuseum Vienna to give a presentation/talk on the Hyksos. The event is on the 6th of June, at 7pm in Vienna, Heldenplatz, 1010. For further information please log on to the Museum’s website or contact our office! the Hyksos at […]
Details »