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Researcher
Harco Willems
- Disciplines:Area studies, Archaeology of religion and ideologies, Funerary archaeology, Geoarchaeology, Social archaeology, Heritage and cultural conservation, Other history and archaeology not elsewhere classified, Middle Eastern languages
Affiliations
- Archaeology, Leuven (Research group)
Member
From1 Jun 2017 → Today - Arabic Studies, Leuven (Research group)
Member
From1 Oct 1999 → 31 May 2017
Projects
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- The settlement of Elkab: Documenting the Rise of Urbanism in an Upper Egyptian townFrom1 Oct 2016 → 1 Oct 2020Funding: FWO fellowships
- Perspectives on the so-called 'late Middle Kingdom funerary assemblage'. A Middle Bronze Age Egyptian funerary practice in the light of urban culture, religion, and cultural interrelations.From1 Oct 2015 → 31 Oct 2019Funding: FWO fellowships
- Settlement Patterns in the greater Dayr al-Barsha region. An archaeological investigation of settlement dynamics in the northeastern Hare nomeFrom1 Jan 2014 → 31 Dec 2017Funding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- From Khemenu to Tjerty. Prolegomena to a Social and Physical Geography region in Pharaonic Middle Egypt.From1 Oct 2013 → 30 Sep 2017Funding: BOF - Concerted Research Project from 1994
- Centre for Archaeological Sciences 2 - New methods for research in demognd interregional exchangeFrom1 Nov 2010 → 31 Oct 2018Funding: BOF - Concerted Research Project from 1994
- A view from heaven. Exploring the potential of remote sensing techniques to study spatial patterns of monastic habitation on the East bank of the Nile in Middle Egypt (VIEWFROMHEAVEN).From15 Sep 2010 → 23 Jul 2013Funding: Marie Curie - People
- The pantheon of the Temple of Shanhur. The text and decoration programme and its cult-topographic analysis.From1 Mar 2010 → 31 Oct 2011Funding: Foreign foundations, funds with scientific view
- Early Old Kingdom rock circle cemeteries in the 15th and 16th nomes of Upper Egypt. A socio-archaeological investigation of the cemeteries in Dayr al-Barshā, Dayr Abū Ḥinnis, Banī Ḥasan al-Shurūq and Nuwayrāt.From22 Feb 2010 → 11 Dec 2017Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Pharaonic quarry exploitation in the Dayr al-Barha region. An interdisciplinary study of the technological, logistical and socio-historical context of the ancient stone quarries near Shaykh Said, Dayr al-Barsha and Dayr Abu Hinnis.From1 Jan 2010 → 31 Dec 2013Funding: FWO research project
- SR/00/132 APLADYNFrom1 Dec 2009 → 30 Jun 2014Funding: Teledetection, STEREO III (Support to the Exploitation and Research in Earth Observation data)
Publications
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- The tomb of Djehutihotep within the Middle Kingdom elite cemetery of Dayr al-Barsha. Digital epigraphic documentation, analysis and interpretation.(2023)
Authors: Toon Sykora, Harco Willems, Marleen De Meyer, Maarten Vergauwen
- Puzzling Tombs: Virtual reconstruction of the Middle Kingdom elite necropolis at Dayr al-Barsha (Middle Egypt)(2023)
Authors: Toon Sykora, Marleen De Meyer, Maarten Vergauwen, Harco Willems
Pages: 532 - 550 - The hydro-geomorphological setting of the Old Kingdom town of al-Ashmunayn in the Egyptian Nile Valley(2022)
Authors: Willem Toonen, Kylie Cortebeeck, Harco Willems
Pages: 267 - 283 - Interregional exchange in First Intermediate Period and early Middle Kingdom pottery: Interdisciplinary approaches to regional variation in Middle Egypt(2021)
Authors: Kylie Cortebeeck, Harco Willems, Patrick Degryse
- Unravelling Daressy's Excavations in the Five Shafts in front of the Tomb of Djehutihotep at Dayr al-Barsha(2021)
Authors: Harco Willems
Pages: 871 - 897Number of pages: 27 - Djoser's Complex as a Source of Inspiration for the Decoration of Private Coffins in the Middle Kingdom(2021)
Authors: Harco Willems
Pages: 462 - 481Number of pages: 20 - From Thebes to Piramesse - and Back. On the Text History of Supplementary Chapter 166 of the Book of the Dead(2020)
Authors: Harco Willems
Pages: 1 - 11 - "Pyramids and Progress". Belgian Expansionism and the Making of Egyptology, 1830-1952(2019)
Authors: Marleen De Meyer, Jan Vandersmissen, Christophe Verbruggen, Wouter Claes, Luc Delvaux, Marie-Cécile Bruwier, Arnaud Quertinmont, Eugène Warmenbol, Laurent Bavay, Harco Willems, et al.
Pages: 173 - 193Number of pages: 21 - Dayr al-Barshā and Dayr al-Bahrī: Two Ritual Landscapes in the Time of Mentuhotep II(2019)
Authors: Harco Willems
Pages: 25 - 46 - A fragment of an Early Book of Two Ways on the coffin of Ankh from Dayr al-Barsha (B4B)(2019)
Authors: Harco Willems
Pages: 145 - 160