The Forgotten Valley. The Crisis of a Paradigm on the Valley of the Cache of Royal Mummies in Luxor
Following the discovery of the royal mummies in 1881 and the excavation campaign by Ambrose Lansing in 1920, the Royal Cachette Wadi has been considered a space archaeologically empty, specially due to its interpretation as secret and hiding place from the very moment of discovery. Starting in 2017,...
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Instituto de Historia Antigua Oriental, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/rihao/article/view/13739 https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=rihao&d=13739_oai |
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| Sumario: | Following the discovery of the royal mummies in 1881 and the excavation campaign by Ambrose Lansing in 1920, the Royal Cachette Wadi has been considered a space archaeologically empty, specially due to its interpretation as secret and hiding place from the very moment of discovery. Starting in 2017, the C2 Project of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) and the Center for the Study of Ancient Egypt (Egypt) has carried out four campaigns in this wadi. Its results let us put into question the validity of the mentioned conception of the valley. Outside of the tomb TT 320, some structures and a cultic area marked by the presence of a torn down monumental effigy, prayers, names of priests and leftovers of offerings have been identified. Common to these elements and others present in the wadi is a rocky step of geological formation but used by humans. The archaeoastronomical observations made in the wadi make it possible to start to understand the reasons for its usage and its relationship to all the identified elements. |
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