Egyptologická prednáška / Mýty a fakty o staroegyptských medených nástrojoch

𓀃 to research in recent years and decades, combining Egyptology with the methods of natural sciences, allows us to understand how ancient Egyptian technologies worked, namely metal tools, in the then company - from pyramid construction to carpentry.

𓀃 The lecture will bring the results of the postdoctoral project, which took place at the University of Newcastle in the UK led by prof. Andrea Dolfini and was obtained as part of the events of Marie Curie-Skłodowski in the Horizon Europe program.

𓀃 The project focused on unprecedentedly detailed documentation of preserved ancient Egyptian metal instruments in collections of British, European and American museums, but also new materials of expeditions operating in Egypt, while the chemical composition of artifacts was analyzed by Ing. Jiří Kmošek. Experiments with replicas of instruments were carried out within the Australia project in cooperation with the Chau Chak Wing University in Sydney and his curator Dr. Melanie Pitkin.

𓀃 Martin Odler is a postdoktorando at the University of Newcastle in the UK and a member of the Board of Directors of the Aigyptos Foundation. He focuses on ancient Egyptian material culture, especially copper artifacts, but also the reflection of ancient Egypt in Slovak culture and literature.