• The subject of the study of Egyptology and Coptology is the knowledge of the culture of Pharaonic and Christian Egypt in all its facets. It covers the period of time between the different Neolithic cultures of the northern Nile valley in the 4th millennium BC. BC to the Christian-Coptic era. Orientalism and Semitic studies are concerned with the period after the Arab conquest of Egypt (AD 640/41). The geographical framework of the subject of Egyptology is the area of ​​what is now the Arab Republic of Egypt, as well as the northern part of the Republic of Sudan.
  • The particular relevance of Egyptology as a scientific discipline lies in its range: the entire social system of one of the earliest advanced civilizations in humanity is traced and gradually uncovered over a period of more than four millennia. This results in many interesting starting points for our modern world with its increasingly complex intercultural references.