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Susanne Beck is an Academic Councillor at the Institute for the Cultures of the Ancient Near East (IANES) within the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Tübingen. She holds a habilitation on Papyrus AMS 23b and directs the Saqqara Saite-Persian Tombs Project. Her academic journey includes a Master of Arts in Egyptology (Leipzig, 2011) and a PhD at LMU Munich (2015) under the Graduate School 'Forms of Prestige in Ancient Cultures'.
- Education: MA in Egyptology, PhD in Ancient Near Eastern Philology
- Roles: Curator, Egyptology Researcher, Project Director
Research Interests: Beck specializes in ancient Egyptian medicine, magic, and demonology, with a focus on cross-cultural exchanges between the Middle East and Egypt. Her work bridges religion, textual analysis, and museology, exploring topics like scorpion incantations, hymnic texts in the Book of the Dead, and textile symbolism in funerary contexts.
Scientific Trends: Her recent publications examine magical-medical hybrid texts, cross-cultural knowledge transfer, and Papyrus AMS 23b's ritual significance. Collaborative work in Nature highlights embalming economy through organic residue studies, while her hieratic script research analyzes unedited British Museum papyri.
- Scientific Awards: Graduate School 'Forms of Prestige' scholarship (2011–2014); British Museum publication fund (2024); travel grants from Equal Opportunities Commission (2017–2019).
Grants & Collaborations: Funded by the Cultural Foundation of the German Federal States (2017) for coffin conservation and Equal Opportunities Commission (Tübingen) for research stays. She collaborates with the Hildesheim Mummy Research Project and the British Museum.
Labs & Teams: Beck contributes to the Saqqara Saite-Persian Tombs Project and the DRESSED Conference on clothing concepts. She co-organizes exhibitions like "Hieroglyphs: Unlocking Ancient Egypt" (British Museum, 2022).
