Susanne Bickel


Susanne Bickel 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. Susanne Bickel's research focuses on religion and Egyptian archaeology, particularly the documentation of Egyptian temples. Bickel is director of the University of Basel Kings' Valley Project and was a member of the team that excavated the KV64 tomb, containing the burial of Nehmes Bastet, in 2011.

Publications

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 Aspects et fonctions de la deification d'amenhotep III, 2002 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