The eastern sector at the northern hills of Deir el-Bahari constitute the less examined area of the necropolis. In general, the whole area in the northern hills gathered tombs belonging to officials who lived in the period between mid-Twelfth Dynasty and XIII Dynasty.  The MKTP has the concesion of one of these tombs, E1 (MMA 521) and today, finally, we have started its excavation.

This tomb, whose owner is still unknown, it has not been excavated in modern times. This is why the work during this season is so promising.

Jose and Carmen are cleaning the entrance of the tomb, which was full of sand and stones. The architecture of this tomb seems really interesting and hopefully we would be able to share more details in the next few days.

At the same time, the works in Henenu’s tomb continued. Mohamed and David were documenting the shaft from the tomb and preparing the points for further photogrammetry. Iria assisted them and kept on registering new finds.

Ella, from the same programme at University College London as Reed, has joined the conservation team. Both of them started the restoration of the painted fragments found in Henenu’s tomb

In Ipi’s tomb, Bea spent the morning classifying finds and supervising the trenches related to ceramic material of the Middle Kingdom. Bettina continued studying the pottery from the embalming shaft of the tomb

In the evening, the epigraphers, Carlos and Sika, arrived in Luxor and joined the team to work during the following days at the tomb of Henenu.