University Of Birmingham

Faculty Member, Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity

Senior Lecturer in Egyptology

College of Arts and Law

About

Martin Bommas studied at the Universities of Heidelberg/D and Leiden/NL. He has spent much of his research career in Elephantine, Aswan/Egypt, where he excavated settlement remains of the Old and Middle Kingdoms and reconstructed the Temple of Chnum (18th Dyn.) according to the epigraphical and architectural evidence. From 1994-2001 he was research assistant in Heidelberg working on mortuary liturgies. He was appointed assistant professor in Egyptology at the University of Basel in 2001, where he mainly studied the theory of ritual in Ancient Egypt and the diffusion of Egyptian gods in the Aegean. By recording archaeological data in Greece and Turkey he succeeded in reconstructing the main rituals and history of the so-called Mysteries of Isis by a combined research on textual and archaeological evidence. In 2006 he was appointed Senior Lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Birmingham, UK.
Martin Bommas taught Egyptology at the Universities of Heidelberg/D, Basel/CH, Zurich/CH, and has held visiting appointments in Rome/I, Venice/I and Sheffield/UK.

Martin Bommas has published in Dutch, French, German, Italian and Swiss books, periodicals, and review journals in English, German and Italian.