Departament: Historia y Filosofía

Area: Ancient History

Research group: CIARQ Ciencias en la Arqueología: recursos innovadores en arquitectura, botánica, geología, medicina y química para recuperar el pasado - Sciences in Archaelogy:innovative resources in architecture, botanics, geology, medicine and chemistry.

Email: antonioj.morales@uah.es

Personal web: https://www.uah.es/es/estudios/profesor/Antonio-Javier-Mo...

Doctor by the University of Pennsylvania with the thesis The transmission of the Pyramid Texts into the Middle Kingdom philological aspects of a continuous tradition in Egyptian mortuary literature 2012. Supervised by Dr. David P. Silverman, Dr. James P. Allen, Dr. Harold M. Hays.

Antonio J. Morales received his PhD from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania on December 2013. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Heidelberg Universität in 2013-2014 and lectured in the Institute of Egyptology at Freie Universität Berlin between 2014 and 2017 until he was appointed as Ramón y Cajal Fellow at the University of Alcalá (UAH, Madrid). He is currently Associate Professor of Egyptology at this institution and the director of the University of Alcalá archaeological expedition to Egypt. His areas of expertise are history, religion, language, and literature in Old and Middle Kingdom Egypt. His current work focuses on the political conditions and social and cultural transformations experienced in Egypt during the so-called First Intermediate Period and early Middle Kingdom.