Karol Myśliwiec

Karol Myśliwiec, 2009

Karol Myśliwiec (born November 3, 1943 in Jassel , German Reich ) is a Polish Egyptologist and director of the Center for Archeology of the Mediterranean Region of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw and the Institute for Ancient Egyptian Archeology at the University of Warsaw .

Career

Karol Myśliwiec studied Mediterranean Archeology at the University of Warsaw , where he 1967 Kazimierz Michałowski graduated .

Since 1969 he took part in excavations in Alexandria , Minschat Abu Omar , Deir el-Bahari and at the Temple of Seti I in Thebes-West in Egypt, but also in Palmyra in Syria . From 1985 to 1995 he directed the Polish-Egyptian excavations in Tell el-Atrib . Since 1987 he has been director of the excavations on the west side of the step pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara . In this necropolis from the 6th dynasty, his team discovered the grave of Merefnebef in 1997 (around 2330 BC) and in 2003 the neighboring grave of Nianchnefertem with partially unfinished reliefs and paintings in good color.

From 1982 to 2002 Myśliwiec was the director of the Research Center for Mediterranean Archeology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 1992 he was appointed director of the Institute for Ancient Egyptian Archeology at the University of Warsaw. Myśliwiec is a member of the German Archaeological Institute .

Publications

• Pottery and small finds from the excavation in the Temple of Seti I. in Gurna (Archaeological Publications 57), Mainz 1987.
• Royal portraiture of the Dynasties XXI-XXX , Mainz 1988.
• Lord of both countries. Egypt in the first millennium BC Chr. , Mainz 1998.
• Eros on the Nile , Ithaca 2004.