Studie představuje složitý poválečný vývoj pražské egyptologie 1946-1951 prostřednictvím korespondence dvou důležitých aktérů. Korespondence významných českých egyptologů je jednak otiskem Černého osobnosti v dějinách pražského egyptologického pracoviště, ale také odrazem osobnosti Zbyňka Žáby, který byl pro institucionální vývoj a zajištění existence ústavu osobou klíčovou, ač rozporuplnou, což je patrné již od počátků jeho odborného působení. Studie tak prostřednictvím dvou rozdílných osudů vědců zachycuje období od poválečné obnovy výuky egyptologie na FF UK v Praze, po etablování Jaroslava Černého ve Velké Británii a Zbyňka Žáby v Praze., This study presents the complex post-war development of Prague Egyptology in 1946-1951 through the correspondence of two of its important practitioners, Jaroslav Černý and Zbyněk Žába. The correspondence of prominent Czech Egyptologists is marked both by Černý’s personality and its impact within the history of the Prague Egyptology department and by Zbyněk Žába’s, who was of key importance to ensuring the existence and the institutional development of the discipline, although he was a contradictory character, as was evident from the start of his professional activities. The character of the department-to-be was mainly philological in its beginnings in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The specialisation corresponded to the interests of the two protagonists, yet they both considered further developments, which eventually led to the establishment of a primarily archaeological institute. Hence this study uses the various fortunes of these two scholars to portray the period from the resumption of Egyptology tuition at the Charles University Faculty of Arts in Prague to the time Jaroslav Černý settled in Britain and Zbyněk Žába settled in Prague. It also includes Černý’s invisible college links in international Egyptology, and Překlad resumé: Melvyn Clarke
The history of the Aswan High Dam project and the related salvage campaign in Lower and Upper Nubia simultaneously includes a portrait of political and economic strife and the exceptional effort made by archaeologists. As the Cold War and decolonisation impacted the Egyptian political and cultural concepts, institutions and individuals worked in a network of professional and political allegiances that contradict the applicability of a singular guiding narrative, including that of decolonisation or the Cold War, if studied in isolation. A case study of two Egyptologists of Czechoslovak origin attempts to tie the global setting of an international archaeological operation to more localised national and personal perspectives. and Překlad resumé: Hana Navrátilová a Melvyn Clarke