Susanne Bickel (born 1960, in Rome) is a Swiss Egyptologist. She studied Egyptology in Geneva and then worked at the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo 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 and since 2006, professor of Egyptology at the University of Basel where she is an expert on Ancient Egyptian deities and demons.[1] Susanne Bickel's research focuses on religion and Egyptian archaeology,[2] particularly the documentation of Egyptian temples. Bickel is director of the University of Basel Kings' Valley Project [3] and was a member of the team that excavated the KV64 tomb, containing the burial of Nehmes Bastet, in 2011.[4][5][6]

Publications edit

  • 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. [1], 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 edit

  1. ^ www.religionswissenschaft.uzh.ch
  2. ^ Spieckermann, Hermann (2006). Götterbilder, Gottesbilder, Weltbilder. Mohr Siebeck. p. 79. ISBN 978-3-16-148673-9. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
  3. ^ Susanne Bickel, Princesses, Robbers, and Priests - The unknown side of the Kings' Valley, Presentation at a conference at the Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy, 14 October 2017, Online; KV 64 is discussed at 27:30 onward
  4. ^ Rühli, Frank; Ikram, Salima; Bickel, Susanne (2015). "New Ancient Egyptian Human Mummies from the Valley of the Kings, Luxor: Anthropological, Radiological, and Egyptological Investigations". BioMed Research International. 2015: 530362. doi:10.1155/2015/530362. PMC 4544442. PMID 26347313.
  5. ^ S. Bickel & E. Paulin-Grothe, "KV 64: two burials in one tomb," Egyptian Archaeology, vol. 41, pp. 36–40, 2012.
  6. ^ "New archaeological discovery at the Valley of the Kings – Ancient Egypt – Heritage – Ahram Online". english.ahram.org.eg. Retrieved 26 February 2018.