Dr. Ole Herslund

Ole Herslund is a doctor of Egyptology and Egyptian Archaeology trained at University of Copenhagen and University College London. He has worked as research fellow and external lecturer at the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Institute of Regional and Cross-Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, and works on a number of projects throughout Egypt including the Italian-Egyptian Mission to Kom el-Ahmer and Kom Wasit and the Temple of Athribis Mission, University of Tübingen.

Herslund’s research focus is on the study of material culture in ancient Egyptian texts and writing systems, and he has published articles on topics relating to material culture and classification, cognition, meaning and social history, among which “On the Pictorial Meaning of the Drop Shaped Hieroglyph for ‘Copper’ from the Archaic Period to the Middle Kingdom” (2015), “Chariots in the Daily Life of New Kingdom Egypt: A Survey of Production, Distribution and Use in Texts” (2013) and “Cloths – Garments – and Keeping Secrets: Textile classification and cognitive chaining in the ancient Egyptian writing system” (2010).