Jochem Kahl

Jochem Kahl (born 1961) 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 (= Egyptological Treatises, Volume 56). 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 . (= Menes, Volume 1) Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2007 Ancient Asyut. The First Synthesis after 300 Years of Research. (= The Asyut Project, Volume 1) 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. (= The Asyut Project, Volume 5) 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 (2014) Ein wiederentdeckter Hundefriedhof in Assiut, 2010. The Asyut Project: six seasons of fieldwork 2009