Martin Bommas
German Egyptologist (born 1967)
Martin Bommas (born 1967 in Heilbronn) is a German Egyptologist, archaeologist, and philologist. He was a professor and Museum Director at the Macquarie University History Museum in Sydney, Australia. He is the founding director of the Qubbet el-Hawa Research Project (QHRP) in Aswan, Egypt. He has published on ancient Egyptian mortuary liturgies, rituals and religious texts spanning the Old Kingdom to the Christian era. In archaeology, he has examined the Old and Middle Kingdom settlement remains and the 18th Dynasty temple of Khnum at Elephantine. At Qubbet el-Hawa, he discovered a necropolis inhabited by the local non-administrative elite dating to the late Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period, excavating mostly unlooted tombs. He left Macquarie University in 2023.
Academia
Martin Bommas studied Egyptology at the University of Heidelberg, completing his M.A. in 1994 and his PhD in 2000. During this period, he worked in the Egyptological Institute of Heidelberg as a research associate in the library (1988) and a tutor of undergraduate students in Egyptology (1991-1994) before becoming Lecturer in Egyptology (1994-2002). Following his time in Heidelberg, he was appointed assistant professor at the Egyptological Seminar at the University of Basel in 2001-2004 and Lecturer in Egyptology in 2004-2006.
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