Nicky van de Beek received her MA in Egyptology from Leiden University in 2014, with a thesis on the tomb chapel of Hetepherakhet. After an additional minor in Digital Humanities (Leiden University) she pursued her PhD in Egyptology at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, financed by the DFG. Her thesis, A tomb with a view: Reflections on landscape and climate change in private funerary art from the Old to the New Kingdom (ca. 2650-1050 BCE), supervised by Prof. Dr. Tanja Pommerening and Prof. Dr. Alexander Pruß, is finished and due to be published.
As a Visiting Research Fellow she is working on two projects that are closely linked together and tied to the field of Egyptology at large as it developed in Leiden during the 20th century:
Digital epigraphy and collation of facsimile drawings of the tomb chapel of Hetepherakhty at the National Museum of Antiquities, in cooperation with Dr. René van Walsem. Preparation of a manuscript for publication by Sidestone Press in the museum’s PALMA series. The book will include a chapter on the history of the mastaba tomb as it was excavated and transported to Leiden, where it was studied by Herta Mohr during the 1930s.
Continuation of research on archival materials in the Netherlands, especially correspondence between Herta Mohr and Arie Kampman. Preparation of one or more new publications about the first female Egyptologist in Leiden, after whom NINO’s new location is named.