Jochem Kahl


Jochem Kahl is a German Egyptologist.
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.
He leads the excavations at Assiut 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

  • The system of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing in the 0th to 3rd centuries Dynasty, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1994.
  • with Nicole Kloth, Ursula Zimmermann: The Inscriptions of the 3rd Dynasty. An inventory, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1995 .
  • Steh auf, gib Horus deine Hand. The narrative of Altenmüller's pyramid text saying, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1996
  • Siut - Thebes. To appreciate tradition in ancient Egypt, Leiden, Brill 1999
  • with Eva-Maria Engel: buried, burned, misunderstood and forgotten - finds from the "Menesgrab", Münster 2001
  • Searching for the Rise of the Sun God at the Dawn of Egyptian History. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2007
  • Ancient Asyut. The First Synthesis after 300 Years of Research. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2007
  • 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. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2013, .
  • The Tomb of the Dogs at Asyut: Faunal Remains and Other Selected Objects. With contributions by Jochem Kahl and Günter Vittmann
  • The Asyut Project: Eleventh Season of Fieldwork
  • Ein wiederentdeckter Hundefriedhof in Assiut, 2010.
  • The Asyut Project: six seasons of fieldwork 2009
  • The Asyut Project: Fourth Season of Fieldwork
  • The First Intermediate Period Tombs at Asyut Revisited