Кепп-Джанк Хайди

Dr. Heidi Köpp-Junk is an Egyptologist, Music Archaeologist and classical trained singer. She studied Egyptology, Prehistory and Ethnology at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen and got her Ph.D. with the thesis "Travel in Pharaonic Egypt" (supervisors: Prof. Dr. F. Junge; Prof. Dr. G. Dreyer (First Director of the German Archaeological Institute Cairo)). Since that she worked at the universities of Göttingen, Münster, Trier and Tübingen and for different museums and exhibitions (British Museum, Roemer and Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim, Federal State Museum for Prehistory Halle/Saale, World Cultural Heritage Site Völklinger Hütte, Musée National d'Histoire et d'Art Luxembourg; Georg-August University Göttingen (The songs of the Ptolemies)). Since 1988 she has been excavating in Germany (Glauberg, Northeim, Einbeck) and since 1990 in Egypt (Dahshur (Pyramid temple of the Red Pyramid of Seneferu”, Elephantine (Satet Temple), Buto, Sakkara (tomb of Ninetjer), Qantir, Abydos (tomb of Khasekhemui), Athribis Temple) for several institutions like the German Archaeological Institute Kairo (DAI). Currently she is working as an Assistant Professor in Egyptian Archaeology at the Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, section Egyptian Temples, Polish Academy of Sciences Warsaw. Her research interests lies in travel, mobility, carrying chairs, wagons, carts, and chariots as well as dewatering systems and music archeology. As a trained singer she performs songs from ancient Egypt, composed by her from texts like pHarris 500 and pChester Beatty while playing a replica of a lute from the time of Tutankhamun and other instruments (sistrum, lyre, frame drum etc.).