Georg Cyrus is an archaeologist specialised in the history of West asia with a particular interest for household archaeology and squatter occupations.
He studied Prehistoric Archaeology at the Free University Berlin. During his studies he used the opportunity to work in several countries in Southwest Asia, like Turkey and Azerbaijan. He also participated in an Erasmus exchange program with the Boğazıcı Univeritesi in Istanbul. In 2016 he wrote his master's thesis about the cleaning activities at the Late Neolithic site Fıstıklı Höyük.
From 2015 to 2016 he was engaged in contemporary historical archaeology concerning the Nazi period as a local excavation director in Berlin.
From 2016 to 2018 he worked at the Tehran branch of the Eurasia Department of the DAI as a member of the team for digitizing the Tehran archive. During this project he had the possibility to work in Iran at Tappe Rivi and to connect to other digitizing projects like the Hinkel archiv.
From 2017 to 2021 he wrote his PhD at the Free University Berlin under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Susan Pollock with the working title "Appropriation and Reuse of Monumental Buildings at the Example of Squatter Occupations in the Iron Age of Southwest Asia". from 2018 to 2021 he received the "Elsa-Neumann-Scholarship" of the federal state of Berlin.
From 2022 to 2024 he was a postdoc fellow at the NINO in Leiden, Netherlands, where he investigated the lower classes of the Neo-Assyrian empire from the perspective of household archaeology.
2024 to 2025 he has been an research assistent at the Free University Berlin where he helps to register and complete the database of the Archaeological Excavation in Tempelhof.
From 2026 onward he is a Postdoc at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the Copenhagen University in the research project "From Catastrophe to Culture: Understanding Epidemics in Ancient Mesopotamia".
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