Mizuki Shindo

Mizuki Shindo is a visiting PhD student at Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere to study the burial theory and funerary control of pit burials in Egypt from the second intermediate period to the new kingdom. In 2021, he obtained the bachelor’s degree in archaeology from Waseda University, with a thesis entitled Some Remarks on Canopic Jars in Ancient Egypt, New Kingdom: Transition and Production of 18th Dynasty Canopic Jars in Thebes(in Japanese). In 2023, he obtained the master’s degree in archaeology from Waseda University, with a thesis entitled Some Aspects of ‘Four Sons of Horus’ in Egypt New Kingdom: The Archaeological Study on the Function of the Magical Protection of the Body in the Book of the Dead, Chapter 151(in Japanese). After that, from 2023, he belongs to the doctoral course at Kanazawa University, where he is researching the transformation of burial customs of non-elite in ancient Egypt.

For his fieldwork, since 2018, he has been a member of the research team at al-Khokha, Thebes (Waseda University), and since 2023, he has been a member of the North Saqqara Project, a joint Egyptian-Japanese research project. In addition, he also has the experience of excavation work at Dahshur (Higashi Nippon International University) in 2023.