Miroslav Verner (born October 31, 1941 in

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) is a Czech egyptologist, who specializes in the history and archaeology of Ancient Egypt of the

Old Kingdom In ancient Egyptian history, the Old Kingdom is the period spanning c. 2700–2200 BC. It is also known as the "Age of the Pyramids" or the "Age of the Pyramid Builders", as it encompasses the reigns of the great pyramid-builders of the Fourth ...

and especially of the

Fifth Dynasty of Egypt The Fifth Dynasty of ancient Egypt (notated Dynasty V) is often combined with Dynasties III, IV and VI under the group title the Old Kingdom. The Fifth Dynasty pharaohs reigned for approximately 150 years, from the early 25th century BC unti ...

Biography

Verner was the director of the Czechoslovak and later Czech Institute of Egyptology at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague for twenty-five years, and led the Czech excavations at

Abusir Abusir ( ar, ابو صير ; Egyptian ''pr wsjr'' cop, ⲃⲟⲩⲥⲓⲣⲓ ' "the House or Temple of Osiris"; grc, Βούσιρις) is the name given to an Egyptian archaeological locality – specifically, an extensive necropolis ...

. He has also been associated with the Universities of

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and

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as well as the

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in Prague and the

American University in Cairo The American University in Cairo (AUC; ar, الجامعة الأمريكية بالقاهرة, Al-Jāmi‘a al-’Amrīkiyya bi-l-Qāhira) is a private research university in Cairo, Egypt. The university offers American-style learning progra ...

. Verner has been active in archaeological work since 1964, and he has been excavating at Abusir since 1976. In 1998, the tomb of

Iufaa Iufaa was an Egyptian priest and administer of palaces who lived around 500 BC. His mummy was discovered in an unmolested tomb by Czech archaeologists under the direction of Ladislav Bareš and Miroslav Verner in February 1998. The discovery of a ...

, an Egyptian priest and administer of palaces, was discovered in an undisturbed tomb by a team of Czech archaeologists from the Czech Institute of Egyptology, under the direction of Verner. In 2005, Verner became the director of the project called "Investigation of the civilisation of Ancient Egypt".Miroslav Verner Website
from the Czech Institute of Egyptology. The project runs from 2005 to 2011, and the aim is to study the evolution of Egyptian society throughout its history.Research Page
from the Czech Institute of Egyptology.

Bibliography

Selected monographs include: *''Abusir XII. Minor tombs in the Royal Necropolis I (The Mastabas of Nebtyemneferes and Nakhtsare, Pyramid Complex Lepsius no. 24 and Tomb Complex Lepsius no. 25)'' (with J. Krejčí and V.G. Callender), Prague 2008. *''Unearthing Ancient Egypt: Fifty years of the Czech Archaeological Exploration in Egypt'' ardcover(with Hana Benesovska); Czech Institute of Egyptology; December 31, 2008. () *''Abusir IX — The Pyramid Complex of Raneferef, the Archaeology'' (v. 9, Pt. 1) ardcover Czech Institute of Egyptology Charles Univers; December 31, 2006. () *''Abusir X — The Pyramid Complex of Raneferef: The Papyrus Archive (Abusir Monographs) (v. 10) (with Paule Posener-Krieger and Hana Vymazalova) ardcover Czech Institute of Egyptology; December 1, 2006. () *''Abusir: The Realm of Osiris'' (Hardcover), American University in Cairo Press: 2003, 248 pages () *''The Pyramids: The Mystery, Culture, and Science of Egypt's Great Monuments'', Grove Press, : October 2001, 432 pages () *''Forgotten pharaohs, lost pyramids: Abusir'', Academia Skodaexport; 1994. () *''The mastaba of Ptahshepses (The Excavations of the Czechoslovak Institute of Egyptology at Abusir) '', Charles University (1977) Articles include: *''Contemporaneous Evidence for the Relative Chronology of Dyns. 4 and 5'', in: E. Hornung – R. Krauss – D. A. Warburton (eds.), Ancient Egyptian Chronology, (HdO. Section 1. The Near and Middle East 83), Leiden – Boston 2006 tisku *''The Abusir Pyramids Quarry and Supply Road'', in: P. Jánosi (ed.), Structure and Significance. Thoughts on Ancient Egyptian Architecture, (DÖAW 33), Wien 2005, 531–538. *''Archaeological Remarks on the 4th and 5th Dynasty Chronology'', Archiv Orientální, Volume 69: 2001, pp. 363–418

References

External links

Miroslav Verner Website
Page maintained by the Czech Institute of Egyptology. Background and bibliography are provided.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Verner, Miroslav Czech archaeologists Czech Egyptologists 1941 births Living people Recipients of Medal of Merit (Czech Republic) Writers from Brno Charles University faculty