He is a member of a number of international scientific organisations, including The Explorers Club in New York and the American Research Center in Egypt. Miroslav Bárta is the recipient of the Czech Republic’s highest scientific honour, the Česká hlava Award, and a member of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He has been working in Egypt since 1991 and became Director of Research at the Abusir pyramid field in 2010. Today, it is the largest interdisciplinary Czech scientific expedition operating abroad. In addition to Egyptology, where he focuses on the age of the pyramid builders, the history and archaeology of the third millennium BCE, he has long been engaged in the comparative study of civilisations. He is the author of the theory of the Seven Laws of Civilisational Development, published in Czech in 2021.
Miroslav Bárta and his team have made a number of groundbreaking discoveries in Egypt, including the tomb of the sage Kaires, the funerary complex of the official Nefer and Princess Sheretnebty, several shaft tombs from the Late Period, and the oldest preserved funerary boat dating to the Third Dynasty. He also led the first detailed analysis of Egypt’s pyramid fields using satellite imagery. He is currently working on the exploration of one of the last unexcavated pyramids in Egypt.
In recent years, he has focused on the state of the contemporary world and Western civilisation and is preparing a book on the history and future of democracy. He is also the founder and director of the Institute for the Study of Civilizations and Democracy.