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Successful Excavation season and News

In March 2018 we started the first excavation and chose as the first site an area south of the tomb houses excavated by Sami Gabra. Here we discovered a building with a dome and a barrel vault.

Final report (english)
Final report (arabic)

In spring 2018 we held another field school as part of the “International Summer- and Field-School Program for Archaeology, Conservation and Restoration of Arts and Cultural Heritage” and is financially supported by the Volkswagen Stiftung, Germany. It is a cooperation project of the Ministry of Antiquities (MoA), Minya University, the State Museum of Lower Saxony Hanover/Germany and supported by the University of Applied Sciences HAWK in Hildesheim, Germany.

Final report (english)
Final report (arabic)