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José M. Galán
- Position: Professor
- Department: Department of Sociology, Egyptology and Anthropology
- Email: [email protected]
José M. Galán is currently a research professor at the Spanish National Research Council. He studied Ancient History at the Complutense University of Madrid and obtained his PhD at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA. He defended his thesis in 1993, entitled Victory and Border, terminology related to Egyptian Imperialism in the XVIIIth Dynasty, which was published a year later in Germany as part of the series Hildesheimer Ägyptologische Beiträge. Galán obtained a Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Tübingen, and in 1994 he returned to Spain, joining the Philology Institute of the Spanish National Research Council, in Madrid. His second monograph was published by the Seminar for Egyptology and Coptology at the University of Götingen: Four Journeys in ancient Egyptian Literature (Lingua Aegyptiaca Studia Monographica 5), in 2005.
In 2018 he published, together with G. Menéndez, Deir el-Medina Stelae and other Inscribed Objects, Catalogue General of the Egyptian Museum Cairo. Published by the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt. José M. Galán is the director of the so-called “Djehuty Project”, the Spanish archaeological mission working at Dra Abu el-Naga, on the west bank of Luxor, since its creation in 2001. He is also the editor of the project’s website proyectodjehuty.com.
One of the project’s most recent discoveries was a 4000 years old funerary garden, with the seeds well preserved and the trunk of a tree still standing up. Together with Betsy Bryan and Peter Doman, he edited the volume Tradition and Innovation in the Reign of Hatshepsut. Published in 2014 by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Together with Javier Trueba, he has directed three one-hour-tv-documentaries for the Spanish National Television, based on the work and findings of the Djehuty Project, which are accessible in the project’s website www.proyectodjehuty.com , also in English.
After 22 archaeological campaigns, part of the site and the chapel-tombs of Djehuty and Hery were finally opened to the public in February 2023.
1986 Bachelor degree in Ancient History by the Complutense University of Madrid.
1993 PhD in Egyptology by The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.
1994 Posdoc Humblodt Stiftung scholar at the Egyptology Institute of the university of Tübingen, Germany.
1995 Research contract at the Philology Institute of the Spanish National Research Council, Madrid.
2000 Senior Researcher in the Department of Languages and Cultures of the Mediterranean and the Near East.
2010 Research Professor in the Department of Languages and Cultures of the Mediterranean and the Near East.