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Since 2017 a Spanish-Egyptian research team is working in the Valley of the Cache of Royal Mummies, in Luxor, Egypt. The site is a legendary place in Egyptology as this is the provenance of the mummified bodies of some of the most important pharaohs in the History of ancient Egypt exhibited now at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo.They were transported there from their original burials around 1000 BC. The valley was considered an empty area, and the tomb containing the bodies a secret and well hidden one. Since the Universidad Complutense project started, the research has produced spectacular and substantial results changing the interpretation of the site. The remains of a nowadays destroyed monumental statue connected with the rising Sun during winter solstice and other material finds point to the existence of a hitherto unknown area of cult and worship perhaps holdings some of the answers for the reasons behind the transportation of he mummies of the pharaohs to this area.
The event will be in Spanish
Speaker: José Ramón Pérez-Accino (Lecturer of Egyptology in Universidad Complutense, Madrid)
Sponsor: RCCHU; Complutense University of Madrid