Egypt & Sudan

The temple of Amenhotep III, one of the largest and most impressive temples ever built in Egypt, was constructed during the reign of Amenhotep III (c. 1382-1344 BC) at the end of the New Kingdom 18 th dynasty (c. 1539-1295 BC). The temple is located on...

The site of Ayn Soukhna in the northern Gulf of Suez, identified in 1999, has been excavated by a French-Egyptian mission (IFAO, CNRS, Sorbonne, Suez Canal University) since 2001. It was one of the three known Pharaonic intermittent harbours and logistic...

The village and its surrounds: Excavations, architecture and artefacts This project will see the publication of fieldwork from 1979–86 at the Workmen’s Village (27 ° 38’ N, 30° 54’ E) associated with the pharaonic Egyptian city of Akhetaten (modern Amarna...

The Valley of the Kings (KV) is most famous for the tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62), found in 1922. It was not until 2006, 84 years after the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb, that another tomb was discovered here: KV63. The excavation of KV63 was headed by...

Claudia Näser , the lead researcher of this publication project, together with Jens Weschenfelder, the author of the envisaged publication, joined the Merowe Dam Archaeological Salvage Project upon invitation by the National Corporation for Antiquities...

Bet Khallaf is a Third Egyptian Dynasty (2686-2613 BC ca.) necropolis located on the west bank of the Nile at 26° 19’ North, 31° 47’ East in the desert zone bordering on the crop cultivations, 20 km north of Abydos necropolis (Umm el-Qa’ab), site of the...

PUBLISHED 2023. Please visit the publication's webpage.

The purpose of this project is to make available the full corpus of evidence recovered from the 2001-2007 excavation of three discrete Nubian cemeteries at Hierakonpolis, Egypt in a volume entitled: The Nubian Cemeteries at Hierakonpolis: Exploring...

Sedeinga is a vast archaeological area located on the left bank of the Nile in Sudanese Nubia, between the second and third cataracts. It comprises many sites from different periods, which include the so-called ‘West Cemetery’, a Kushite necropolis that...

PUBLISHED 2021. Please visit the publication's webpage. The aim of the grant, awarded to Dr. Edward Brovarski, is to prepare the publication of the Old Kingdom tombs excavated by Prof. Abdel-Moneim Abu Bakr in the 1950s and early 1960s in the cemetery...