Jochem Kahl (born 1961) is a German Egyptology.[Kürschner's German Scholarly Calendar 2001 . Saur, 2001, , p. 1464.]
A native of Ravensburg, Kahl studied undergraduate history and Greek at the University of Tübingen from 1983 to 1984 and then Egyptology, Classical Archeology and Pre- and Early History at Münster, Tübingen and Vienna between 1984 and 1990. Kahl undertook his doctorate with the study "The System of Egyptian Hieroglyphic Writing in the 0th – 3rd Dynasty" between 1992 and 1998.
From 1998 to 2004, he was a university lecturer at the Institute for Egyptology and Coptology at the University of Münster.
In 2004, he was given a professorship at the University of Münster and in 2006 a professorship at University of Mainz.
He is currently at Free University of Berlin.[ Univ.-Prof. dr Jochem Kahl. page]
He leads the excavations at Asyut[ The Asyut Project website.] and the surrounding area in Central Egypt and has been a professor at the Free University of Berlin since October 2008. Kahl is a member of the German Archaeological Institute.
Selected publications
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The system of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing in the 0th to 3rd centuries Dynasty, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1994.
[Jochem Kahl, Das System der ägyptischen Hieroglyphenschrift in der 0.-3. Dynastie (Harrassowitz Verlag, 1994).]
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with Nicole Kloth, Ursula Zimmermann: The Inscriptions of the 3rd Dynasty. An inventory, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1995 (= Egyptological Treatises, Volume 56).
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Steh auf, gib Horus deine Hand. The narrative of Altenmüller's pyramid text saying, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1996
[Jochem Kahl, Books by Jochem Kahl.]
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Siut - Thebes.
[ Siut - Theben (BRILL, 1999).] To appreciate tradition in ancient Egypt, Leiden, Brill 1999
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with Eva-Maria Engel: buried, burned, misunderstood and forgotten - finds from the "Menesgrab" , Münster 2001
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Searching for the Rise of the Sun God at the Dawn of Egyptian History . (= Menes, Volume 1) Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2007
[ Books by Jochem Kahl.]
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Ancient Asyut. The First Synthesis after 300 Years of Research. (= The Asyut Project, Volume 1) Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2007
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Die Zeit selbst lag nun tot darnieder. The city of Assiut and its necropolises according to western travel reports from the 17th to 19th centuries: construction, destruction and reconstruction. (= The Asyut Project, Volume 5) Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2013, .
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The Tomb of the Dogs at Asyut: Faunal Remains and Other Selected Objects. With contributions by Jochem Kahl and Günter Vittmann
[ The Tomb of the Dogs at Asyut: Faunal Remains and Other Selected Objects. With contributions by Jochem Kahl and Günter Vittmann (The Asyut Project, Band 9).]
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The Asyut Project: Eleventh Season of Fieldwork (2014)
[ The Asyut Project: Eleventh Season of Fieldwork (2014) Painted pottery from the so-called "Hogarth Depot" in Tomb IV of the Asyut necropolis.]
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Ein wiederentdeckter Hundefriedhof in Assiut, 2010.
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The Asyut Project: six seasons of fieldwork 2009
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The Asyut Project: Fourth Season of Fieldwork (2006)
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The First Intermediate Period Tombs at Asyut Revisited
[ The First Intermediate Period Tombs at Asyut Revisited.,]
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