ARCE unearth 18th Dynasty tomb in Qurna

The ARCE (American Research Center in Egypt) team working at TT110 had unearthed a new tomb in Qurna while cleaning the courtyard of tomb TT110. 

The discovered tomb is located to the east of TT110 and it belongs to an official called "Amenhotep" who held the title of "God Amun gatekeeper".

The tomb is a T shape tomb measures 5.1meters in length and 1.5 meters in width. There is also a side room connected by a hallway. The hallway is 2.5 meters length and 2.1 width and the small side room is 2 meters by 2 meters with a shaft in the middle of the room which probably leads to the burial chamber.

The tomb walls show scenes of the owner of the tomb with his wife in front of offering table and also daily life scenes such as farming.

The tomb walls show deliberate erasing of the God Amun name which indicated according to Mr. Sultan Eid, director of Luxor Antiquities, that the religious revolution at the time of Akhenaton affected this tomb directly.

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Photos are courtesy of MSA 

New findings at Tuthmosis III Mortuary temple, Akhnaton was found too!

The excavation, restoration, conservation and site management project of the Mortuary Temple of Thutmosis III, located on the West bank of Luxor, first began in 2008.  This has been a collaborative project between the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt and the Academy of Fine Arts of Seville, Spain

According to Dr. Mohamed Ibrahim, Minister of Antiquities, the Egyptian-Spanish mission working in the site of Tuthmosis III mortuary temple on the West Bank of Luxor, found the lower parts of two black granite statues.

One of the discovered parts of the statues found bears an inscription of King Tuthmosis III name.

The parts were found inside a mud brick structure in the northern part of the temple.

The mission also found parts of limestone doors of one of the temple buildings with texts and cavernous/sunken inscriptions of two cartouches of Tuthmosis III.

Dr. Mohamed Abd El Maqsoud, Head of the Ancient Egypt department, pointed out that the scenes and inscriptions carved very neatly and with maximum accuracy which is common for art in the middle of the 18^th Dynasty. He also said that one of these doors has an inscription of the High Priest “Khonsu”, beside the discovery of a group of royal seals of Akhnaton and Ramses II.

Dr. Abd El Maqsoud referred that finding the name or Ramses II and Priest Khonsu confirms that a part of the temple was used till the time of Ramses II and Akhnaton seals shows that it was used for religious rituals in the beginning of King Akhnaton’s reign.

  

Dr. Myriam Seco Alvarez, the director of the mission working on the site said “The mission has been working on conservation of the discovered mud brick buildings in the site of Tuthmosis III temple for 6 consecutive seasons.”

 

 

The excavation, restoration, conservation and site management project of the Mortuary Temple of Thutmosis III, located on the West bank of Luxor, first began in 2008.  This has been a collaborative project between the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt and the Academy of Fine Arts of Seville, Spain.
Thutmosis III temple Project web site (In English and Spanish) HERE