Jochem Kahl (born 1961) is a German Egyptologist. A native of

Ravensburg Ravensburg ( Swabian: ''Raveschburg'') is a city in Upper Swabia in Southern Germany, capital of the district of Ravensburg, Baden-Württemberg. Ravensburg was first mentioned in 1088. In the Middle Ages, it was an Imperial Free City and an impo ...

, Kahl studied undergraduate history and Greek at the

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from 1983 to 1984 and then Egyptology, Classical Archeology and Pre- and Early History at

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and

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between 1984 and 1990. Kahl undertook his doctorate with the study "The System of Egyptian Hieroglyphic Writing in the 0th - 3rd Dynasty" between 1992 to 1998. From 1998 to 2004 he was a university lecturer at the Institute for Egyptology and Coptology at the University of Münster. In 2004 he was given a professorship at the University of Münster and in 2006 a professorship at

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. He is currently at

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. He leads the excavations at

Assiut AsyutAlso spelled ''Assiout'' or ''Assiut'' ( ar, أسيوط ' , from ' ) is the capital of the modern Asyut Governorate in Egypt. It was built close to the ancient city of the same name, which is situated nearby. The modern city is located at , ...

and the surrounding area in Central Egypt and has been a professor at the

since October 2008. Kahl is a member of the

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Selected publications

* The system of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing in the 0th to 3rd centuries Dynasty , Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1994. * with Nicole Kloth, Ursula Zimmermann: The Inscriptions of the 3rd Dynasty. An inventory , Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1995 (= Egyptological Treatises , Volume 56). * Steh auf, gib Horus deine Hand. The narrative of Altenmüller's pyramid text saying , Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1996 * Siut - Thebes. To appreciate tradition in ancient Egypt , Leiden, Brill 1999 * with Eva-Maria Engel: buried, burned, misunderstood and forgotten - finds from the "Menesgrab" , Münster 2001 * Searching for the Rise of the Sun God at the Dawn of Egyptian History . (= Menes , Volume 1) Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2007Books by Jochem Kahl
* Ancient Asyut. The First Synthesis after 300 Years of Research. (= The Asyut Project , Volume 1) Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2007 * Die Zeit selbst lag nun tot darnieder. The city of Assiut and its necropolises according to western travel reports from the 17th to 19th centuries: construction, destruction and reconstruction. (= The Asyut Project , Volume 5) Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2013, . * The Tomb of the Dogs at Asyut: Faunal Remains and Other Selected Objects. With contributions by Jochem Kahl and Günter Vittman
The Tomb of the Dogs at Asyut: Faunal Remains and Other Selected Objects. With contributions by Jochem Kahl and Günter Vittmann (The Asyut Project, Band 9)
*The Asyut Project: Eleventh Season of Fieldwork (2014) [Painted pottery from the so-called “Hogarth Depot“ in Tomb IV of the Asyut necropol
The Asyut Project: Eleventh Season of Fieldwork (2014) [Painted pottery from the so-called “Hogarth Depot“ in Tomb IV of the Asyut necropolis
* Ein wiederentdeckter Hundefriedhof in Assiut, 2010. *The Asyut Project: six seasons of fieldwork 2009 *The Asyut Project: Fourth Season of Fieldwork (2006) *The First Intermediate Period Tombs at Asyut RevisitedThe First Intermediate Period Tombs at Asyut Revisited
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References

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