It’s been almost a year since we closed the 2024 season, and I’m thrilled and grateful that we opened for the 2025 season of the LMU Ankh-Hor Project yesterday.

As with last year, our focus will be on sorting, documenting and consolidating the fragmented wooden and cartonnage coffins from TT 414. Thanks to our kind inspector, Hassan Khalil, and our excellent workmen, supervised by Ahshraf Teegi, setting up was incredibly straightforward this year.

Our excellent conservator, Mohamed Mahmoud, has already got to work. Having joined us a few years ago, he is very familiar with both our workflow and the materials from TT 414. Mohamed has finished cleaning and consolidating some wooden pieces, as well as the first fragile cartonnage fragments for this season. Here he is working on one of the smaller pieces that he has fixed so nicely.

I continue to document the newly consolidated pieces using both our full-frame camera and the Scaniverse app to create 3D scans. The latter produces high-quality 3D models, as can be seen in this video of another cartonnage fragment consolidated by Mohamed.

Furthermore, I have already succeeded in finding several pieces that can be joined to coffin fragments that have already been documented and registered in earlier season. This shows that all our efforts with the large quantity of finds from TT 414 are worthwhile.

Sorting through boxes of coffin fragments and adding photos and notes to their documentation is something that Ladina Soubeyrand is doing, just like she did last year. I am extremely grateful that she is joining us again this season!

Overall, the last two days were busy and successful, and we are looking forward to the rest of the season. We will, of course, update you with further blog posts, including photos, videos and more information!