Mélanie Flossman

State Museum of Egyptian Art (Munich): Deputy Director and Curator
2026 White Levy Program Grant Co-recipient with Yann Tristant
Melanie Flosssman

The 4th Dynasty Pyramid Complex of Radjedef at Abu Rawash (Egypt). 


Publication of the funerary temple and its architectural, archaeological, and statuary context

Mélanie Flossmann is the deputy director and curator of the State Museum of Egyptian Art in Munich. She studied and received her doctorate at Ludwig Maximilian University in the Department of Egyptology, with a dissertation on divine standards in Ancient Egypt. She subsequently worked as a research associate at LMU Munich, the State Museum of Hanover, and the Free University of Berlin. From 2007 to 2022, she led the excavations conducted by LMU Munich and Cairo University at Tuna el-Gebel in Middle Egypt, before assuming her current position at the Munich museum in 2022.

Her research focuses on domestic and settlement archaeology, with an emphasis on Ptolemaic-Roman tower houses and food culture. She is co-editor of the series “Tuna el-Gebel/Hermopolis Magna”. She is also very active in the field digital object reconstruction. Since October 2025, she has been a Co-PI in the “Horizon Europe”-funded project “EXCALIBUR. Advanced toolkits for interdisciplinary and enhanced study, conservation, and restoration in burial excavations and findings.”