Project Repository of the ERC Starting Grant “Challenging Time(s)”



The Ruins of Memphis (Lepsius, Denkmäler, 1849, I.1, Bl. 10)


This repository is dedicated to the publications which present the research results of the ERC Starting Grant “Challenging Time(s) – A New Approach to Written Sources for Ancient Egyptian Chronology” (GA Nr 757951, 2018–2023). In the years to come, publications will be added in due course with the aim to build up a comprehensive collection finally to comprise the entire output of this research project.

All publications stored in this repository have been published open access and bear a unique and permanent persistent identifier (DOI) attributed either by the publishers or in the course of uploading to this repository. For research and education purposes, use of all publications found in this repository is unrestricted and free, but any commercial use without prior permission will be subject to legal prosecution. For questions regarding copyright and reuse, please contact us by email

For more information on the ERC Starting Grant “Challenging Time(s)”, please visit the project homepage.


Roman Gundacker
Principal Investigator





This research project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement Number 757951 and has been hosted at the Austrian Archaeological Institute, Department of Classical Studies, of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.