Carola Vogel

Carola Vogel (* 1966 in Groß-Gerau ) is a German Egyptologist .

Vogel studied Egyptology, Classical Archeology and Prehistory and Early History at the Universities of Mainz and Heidelberg and in 1997 when Rolf Gundlach at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz with the Egyptology Dissertation Egyptian forts and garrisons until the end of the Middle Kingdom to Dr. phil. PhD. In 2000 she received the Werner Hahlweg Prize for Military History and Defense Sciences (3rd prize) for her work .

She took part in excavations / field campaign (s) in Germany and Egypt ( Thebes-West ). In 1998 she became a lecturer at the Institute for Egyptology in Mainz and worked for the von Zabern magazine, Antike Welt , from 1998 to 2000 . Since 2000 she has been working for the Harrassowitz academic bookstore in Wiesbaden. Vogel published several works on Egyptian military and social history, articles appeared a. a. in the Journal of Egyptian Archeology and in Studies on Ancient Egyptian Culture .

She is also a founding member of the Egyptian Military History Working Group.

Fonts (selection)

• Egyptian fortresses and garrisons until the end of the Middle Kingdom (= Hildesheimer Egyptological contributions . 46). Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 2004, ISBN 978-3-8067-8141-0 .
• (Ed.): Labib Habachi : The immortal obelisks of Egypt (= Zabern's illustrated books on archeology ). Revised and expanded new edition, von Zabern, Mainz 2000, ISBN 3-8053-2658-0 . (Original English title: The obelisks of Egypt )
• with Rolf Gundlach (ed.): Military history of pharaonic Egypt. Ancient Egypt and its neighboring cultures as reflected in current research (= War in History . Vol. 34). Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-506-71366-7 .
• The Fortifications of Ancient Egypt 3000-1780 BC . Osprey Publishing, Oxford 2010, ISBN 978-1-84603-956-0 .
• with Friederike Jesse (Ed.): The power of walls - fortifications in ancient northeastern Africa. Proceedings of the international workshop held at the University of Cologne, 4th - 7th August 2011 (= Colloquium africanum . 5). Heinrich Barth Institute, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-927688-39-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Carola Vogel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Carola Vogel at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz ( Memento from October 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
• Table talk with Dr. Carola Vogel: Of pharaohs and hieroglyphs . In: WE. The magazine im Gerauer Land , No. 290, February 22 to March 20, 2020, accessed on March 7, 2020.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Egyptological dissertations , aegyptologie.uni-mainz.de, accessed on October 6, 2016.