Saturday 20 March 2027 1400 UK Time: 

Anke Weber: ‘News from the Valley of the Kings.
Ongoing work in the tomb of Ramesses III (KV 11)’. 
 

Outline: The tomb of Pharaoh Ramesses III was flooded several times in the late 19th and early 20thcenturies. These events caused significant damage to the rear chambers, which have been inaccessible ever since. An international and interdisciplinary team from Humboldt University of Berlin is now excavating and conserving this important cultural heritage site in preparation for a final publication. Although the tomb has been accessible since antiquity, the archaeologists have recovered several objects that were part of the king's original burial equipment. These important discoveries will provide new insights into the royal burial customs of the New Kingdom and contribute to a better understanding of the Egyptian state at the end of the Bronze Age.

Biography: Dr Anke Weber is an Egyptologist and curator based in Berlin and Luxor. She studied Egyptology, Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at Free University Berlin before beginning her work as a museum curator at the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection Berlin. She worked as a curatorial assistant supporting the exhibition “In the Light of Amarna” and later co-curated exhibitions about Ancient Egyptian Storytelling Traditions and Elephantine. Her PhD dealt with the daily offering table scene in New Kingdom tombs of Thebes-West with special focus on the depiction of foodstuffs. Anke is the mission director of The Ramesses III (KV 11) Publication and Conservation Project and currently works on the reuse of the pharaoh’s tomb in modern times as well as the multimodal communication of KV 11.  

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