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Dr Henning Franzmeier holds a PhD in Egyptology from the Free University Berlin and a M.A. in Egyptology from the Georg-August-University of Göttingen. He is the field director of the Qantir-Piramesse-Project in Egypt’s Nile Delta since 2015 and has been employed as research associate at UCL Qatar, research assistant at the TOPOI centre of excellence in Berlin, as well as junior assistant professor at the University of Bologna. This included research but also teaching mostly graduate students and supervising a number of MA thesis. 

 

His scientific interests focus primarily on the Late Bronze Age archaeology of Egypt. This includes settlement archaeology, especially of the Nile Delta where he is working for 20 years at the site of Qantir-Piramesse, but also ceramics, and the history of the Late Bronze Age in Egypt and beyond. In addition he has been involved in research into the history of the field of Egyptology in the first half of the 20th century both in Germany and the UK.

 

He has received several scholarships (Friedrich-Ebert-foundation PhD scholarship) and was involved in securing substantial funding for the Qantir-Piramesse-Project with the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (project number 458316786). Two monographs, two further co-edited books, and more than 25 contributions to journals and edited volumes, most of them peer-reviewed, document his research. He has given papers at various international conferences in the field of Egyptology and neighboring disciplines. Moreover, he was involved in two exhibitions, one of which he co-curated at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Outreach activities include more than 15 lectures aiming at a non-specialist audience as well as the participation in several TV-documentaries on Pharaonic Egypt.