Jaana Toivari-Viitala
Finnish egyptologist
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Jaana Toivari-Viitala's Degrees
- PhD Egyptology University of Helsinki
- Masters Egyptology University of Helsinki
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jaana Toivari-Viitala was an egyptologist and museum curator from Finland, who was Chair of the Finnish Egyptology Society and Head of the Department of Egyptology at the University of Helsinki. Biography Toivari-Viitala was born in Loviisa on 16 May 1964. She was passionate about Ancient Egypt since her childhood. She studied for her PhD at the Leiden University, which explored the lives of the women who lived at Deir el-Medîna, the village where the builders of the tombs in the Valley of the Kings lived. This work examined many aspects of women's lives there, including sex, maternity and property ownership. She argued that women were independent and active in the economic life of the community there.
Jaana Toivari-Viitala's Published Works
Published Works
- Women at Deir El-Medina: A Study of the Status and Roles of the Female Inhabitants in the Workmen's Community During the Ramesside Period (2001) (29)
- DID THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS RECORD THE PERIOD OF THE ECLIPSING BINARY ALGOL—THE RAGING ONE? (2012) (26)
- Evidence of Periodicity in Ancient Egyptian Calendars of Lucky and Unlucky Days (2008) (16)
- The Deir el-Medina Database (2012) (2)
- Deir el-Medina (Development) (2011) (2)
- O. DeM 764: A Note Concerning Property Rights. (2003) (1)
- Egypt!: the 40th anniversary exhibition of the Finnish Egyptological Society (2009) (1)
- The Deir el-Medina and Jaroslav Černý Collections (2014) (1)
- Algol as Horus in the Cairo Calendar: The Possible Means and the Motives of the Observations (2018) (1)
- Pharaohnic sources for the economic and social history (2003) (0)
- Did the ancient egyptians discover Algol (2013) (0)
- Deir el-Medina Studies: Helsinki June 24–26, 2009 Proceedings (2014) (0)
- ACADEMY OF FINLAND AND UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI WORKMEN’S HUTS IN THE THEBAN MOUNTAINS PROJECT PRELIMINARY REPORT OF THE WORK PERFORMED DURING THE FOURTH SEASON IN 2011–2012* (2012) (0)
- Marriage and Divorce (2013) (0)
- VizieR Online Data Catalog: Period of HD 19356 recorded in the Cairo Calendar? (Jetsu+, 2013) (2016) (0)
- A Ramesside Text Fragment (O. FES 4). (2015) (0)
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