Susanne Bickel (born 1960, in Rome) is a Swiss Egyptologist. She studied Egyptology in

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and then worked at the

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and the Swiss Institute of Egyptian Antiquity. She has worked as an archaeologist on multiple sites in Middle and Upper Egypt. Since 2000 she has been a lecturer at the

University of Freiburg The University of Freiburg (colloquially german: Uni Freiburg), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (german: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), is a public university, public research university located in Freiburg im Breisg ...

and since 2006, professor of Egyptology at the

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where she is an expert on Ancient Egyptian deities and demons. Susanne Bickel's research focuses on religion and Egyptian archaeology, particularly the documentation of Egyptian temples. Bickel is director of the University of Basel Kings' Valley Project Susanne Bickel, Princesses, Robbers, and Priests - The unknown side of the Kings' Valley, Presentation at a conference at the Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy, October 14 2017
Online; KV 64 is discussed at 27:30 onward
/ref> and was a member of the team that excavated the

KV64 KV64 is the tomb of an unknown Eighteenth Dynasty individual in the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, Egypt that was re-used in the Twenty-second Dynasty for the burial of the priestess Nehmes Bastet, who held the office of "chantress" at the te ...

tomb, containing the burial of

Nehmes Bastet Nehmes Bastet or Nehemes-Bastet was an Ancient Egyptian priestess who held the office of "chantress"; she was the daughter of the high priest of Amun. She lived during the Twenty-second Dynasty (approximately 945–712 BC) and was buried in to ...

, in 2011.S. Bickel & E. Paulin-Grothe, “KV 64: two burials in one tomb,” Egyptian Archaeology, vol. 41, pp. 36–40, 2012.

Publications

* ''Katalytische und regulatorische Wechselwirkungen von Adeninnukleotiden mit der H+-ATPase des Chloroplasten'', 1988 * ''Missions épigraphiques du Fonds de l'Egyptologie de Genève au Spéos Artémidos'', 1988 * ''Telekommunikation und Gesellschaft : kritisches Jahrbuch der Telekommunikation. ', 1991 * ''La cosmogonie égyptienne : avant le nouvel empire'', 1994 * ''Tore und andere wiederverwendete Bauteile Amenophis' III'', 1997 * ''Die Dekoration des Tempelhaustores unter Alexander IV : und der Südwand unter Augustus'', 1998 * ''"Sortir au jour" : art égyptien de la Fondation Martin Bodmer'', 2001 * ''Aspects et fonctions de la deification d'amenhotep III'', 2002 * ''Werbung für die Götter: Heilsbringer aus 4000 Jahren'', 2003 * ''Les animaux du 6ème jour : Les animaux dans la Bible et dans l'Orient ancien'', 2003 * ''D'un monde á l'autre textes des pyramides & textes des sarcophages'', 2004 * ''In ägyptischer Gesellschaft : Aegyptiaca der Sammlungen Bibel+Orient an der Universität Freiburg Schweiz'', 2004 * ''Akhénaton et Néfertiti : soleil et ombres des pharaons'', 2008 * ''Vergangenheit und Zukunft Studien zum historischen Bewusstsein in der Thutmosidenzeit'', 2014 * ''La porte d'Horemheb au Xe pylône de Karnak'', 2015 * ''Egypt and ancient Near East - perceptions of alterity'', 2016 * ''Studies in Ancient Egyptian funerary literature'', 2017

References

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