Budka Julia

Budka Julia

Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Art History; PI of ERC Project DiverseNile

MAIN AREAS OF RESEARCH
Late Bronze Age and Iron Age, Egypt and Nubia, Material culture, Settlement archaeology and social relationships, Cultural identities, Funerary culture and mortuary architecture

EDUCATION

2007    Dr phil awarded in Egyptology, University of Vienna, Austria

2000    Mphil in Egyptology, University of Vienna, Austria

1995-2000     Study of Egyptology (Major) and Classical Archaeology (Minor), University of Vienna

CAREER HISTORY

Since 2020 Principal Investigator of the ERC Consolidator Grant project DiverseNile, LMU Munich

Since 2015   Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Art History, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (since 2020 tenured)

2012-2018    Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant project AcrossBorders, hosted by the Austrian Academy of Sciences from 12/2012 to 03/2015; transfered to Munich in 04/2015

2012-2017    Principal Investigator of FWF START project “Across ancient borders and cultures”, hosted by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OREA, Egypt & Levant)

2011-2012    Assistant Professor (Universitätsassistentin PostDOC) at the University of Vienna, Institute of Egyptology (granted leave from Humboldt University)

2010            Lecturer at the University of Leipzig, Institute of Egyptology

2004-2012    Scientific Researcher and Lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, Humboldt University Berlin, Department of Egyptology and Northeast African Archaeology

HONORARY POSTS & ELECTED MEMBERSHIP 

since 2019 Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

2015-2018 Member of the board of directors of the Young Academy

2014-2016            Member of the Akademierat, Austrian Academy of Sciences

2014-2019 Member of the “Young Academy”, Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna)

since 2014            Member of the managing board of the “Freunde des Naturhistorischen Museums” (http://freunde.nhm-wien.ac.at/)

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Neueste Beiträge

A few media reports from Sudan: Why field research in Northern Sudan is both possible and highly relevant today

I’ve just got back from a really intense month of fieldwork in Sudan.

Our field season was from 5th March to 2nd April 2026. As well as Dr. Mohamed Eltoum (NCAM inspector), our team was joined for a few days by Mohammed Abbas (NCAM Jebel Barkal, drone pilot), Abd el-Magid Mahmoud Abd el-Rahman (NCAM Dongola) and Majhoub Ebrahim (drone pilot). Also, Huda Magzoub, my former NCAM inspector, came by and was with us from 26th March to 2nd April. We stayed in our dig house in Ginis and we’re really grateful to Mr Mohammed Khater Bashir, who was a great cook, and Mr Magzoub Hassan Mohammed, who was a great driver and head of logistics. We’d also like to say a big thank you to our workman and boatman Sameer Ali Saleh and our workman and police officer Mohammed Osman.

Mohammed Eltoum, Sameer and I are heading over to the west bank (photo: M. Eltoum)
Mahjoub is operating his DJI Mavic 2 Pro drone.
Mahjoub is recording for his video about our work in Attab and Ginis (photo: M. Eltoum)

Thanks to Majhoub Ebrahim, we’ve got a short video about our work in Attab and Ginis. It was shown on Sudanese TV and is now available on the YouTube channel of Amwaj Al-Sabah Media Services.

There are two main things we wanted to get across: first, northern Sudan is safe for foreigners to work and second, especially in these challenging times of war and increased illegal gold mining, it’s really important that international missions work together with the local authorities to protect the rich cultural heritage of Sudan.

I’m really thankful that, with my friends and colleagues from NCAM, we managed to put on such a successful season, even though things are still tough in Sudan.

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