Martin Bommas

Martin Bommas
Bommas at Radio Cairo
Born	1967 (age 57–58) Heilbronn
Academic background
Alma mater	Heidelberg University
Academic work
Discipline	Egyptology and archaeology
Sub-discipline	Old Kingdom Middle Kingdom New Kingdom
Institutions	German Archaeological Institute Leiden University University of Basel University of Birmingham Macquarie University
Doctoral students	Charlotte Booth[1]

Martin Bommas (born 1967 in Heilbronn) is a German Egyptologist, archaeologist, and philologist. He was a professor and Museum Director at the Macquarie University History Museum in Sydney, Australia. He is the founding director of the Qubbet el-Hawa Research Project (QHRP) in Aswan, Egypt. He has published on ancient Egyptian mortuary liturgies, rituals and religious texts spanning the Old Kingdom to the Christian era. In archaeology, he has examined the Old and Middle Kingdom settlement remains and the 18th Dynasty temple of Khnum at Elephantine. At Qubbet el-Hawa, he discovered a necropolis inhabited by the local non-administrative elite dating to the late Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period, excavating mostly unlooted tombs. He left Macquarie University in 2023. ^[2]