Julia Budka Author

Julia Budka studied Egyptology and Classical Archaeology at the University of Vienna and received her PhD in Egyptology, from the same institution in 2007. Since 2015, she has been Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Art, LMU Munich. Her specialist fields are Egyptian field archaeology and material culture; she has conducted excavations in Sudan and Egypt, both at funerary and settlement sites, especially at Luxor (Ankh-Hor project) and between Attab and Ferka (MUAFS and DiverseNile projects).

Tamás Mekis graduated from the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest in 2007 and gained a PhD in Egyptology in 2013. His research focuses on the Theban and Panopolitan funerary beliefs in the Late Dynastic and Ptolemaic Periods, and his publications include The Hypocephalus: an Ancient Egyptian Funerary Amulet (Archaeopress 2020).