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Presenting the Ankh-Hor Project at the ICE 2023 in Leiden

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It has been a wonderful week so far – more than 800 Egyptologists are gathering for the 13th International Congress of Egyptologists in the beautiful city of Leiden! Many congrats to the organizers for a fantastic job – there are multiple sessions and several workshops as well as outreach lectures and receptions. Recent finds and results from the field are presented as well as crucial questions addressed and innovative methods and theories discussed.

Today is the day for the poster presentations. I am very happy that Antje Zygalski prepared a poster about the Ankh-Hor Project: “From excavation to full documentation. A conservator’s perspective” aims to show the benefit of interdisciplinary approaches in the field, of bringing together various fields of expertise and different skills in the overall workflow.

Our poster is exhibited in the P.J. Veth Building and will be accessible until the end of the congress.

For those of you who are in Leiden – we will be presenting the poster this afternoon and are looking much forward to any questions or feedback.

Videos of the study day of the Ankh-Hor project

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The first study day of the LMU Ankh-Hor Project was successfully held online using Zoom last week. We were very proud and happy that more than 120 colleagues and friends from several countries in Europe, from Egypt and even from the US were joining us! Many thanks, this wide interest is much appreciated and means a lot to us.

Although there were of course some technical problems – no surprise – all participants remained patient with us and our programme highlighted the challenges, achievements and problems connected with the study of TT 414.

I received much positive feedback and also a number of very useful comments and advice – again many thanks for this! Besides the scientific benefits, it was also just very pleasant to see so many colleagues and friends one hardly sees in person in these challenging times!

As promised, all presentations will be accessible as videos on LMU cast – for free of course. For now, the lectures by Cajetan and Patrizia are already available, more will follow soon.

Check out the video of Cajetan’s presentation to know about our applications of photography!

Cajetan spoke about technical aspects and logistics connected with photography of objects from TT 414. He also gave some comparisons with different set-ups in Sudan as we experienced in the framework of the AcrossBorders project.

Interested in archaeological drawing? Patrizia’s presentation will give you insights in practical details!

Patrizia highlighted our technical equipment, both hard- and software, for archaeological drawings from a large set of different objects from the tomb of Ankh-Hor. She also introduced our latest purchase in terms of graphics tablets.

An upate with more videos will follow shortly! And for sure this was not the last study day of the LMU Ankh-Hor project.