Meet the team

Carina van den Hoven
Mission Director
Bianca Madden
Conservator
Matjaz Kacicnik
Photographer
Mahmoud Ibrahim
Technical translator
Ashraquet Fakhry
Community archaeologist


Azab Taie Osman
Rais
Piet Collet
Archaeological surveyor
Warda el-Nagar
Inspector season 2020
Mohamed Khalifa Ahmed
Inspector season 2020
Amna Boughdadi
MoA conservator 2020


Tayseer Saad Eldin Elrifei
Inspector season 2019
Entesar Abd Alsabour Mosa
MoA conservator season 2019
Saad Kenawy Mohamed
Inspector season 2018
Mohamed Ahmed Selim
Inspector season 2018


Azab Taie Osman, Mahmoud Mohamed, Ramadan Mohamed, Mahmoud Mohamed, Saad Hashim, Kamal Adli, Mohamed Abd el-Nasser, Hamdi Mohamed, Hassan Mahmoud, Taie Gaber, Abd el-Rahim Ahmed


We closely cooperate with the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities and with our Egyptian colleagues at the Inspectorate of Antiquities on the West Bank of Luxor in the study and preservation of Egypt’s cultural heritage. We thank Dr. Khaled el-Enany (Minister of Antiquities), Dr. Mostafa Waziri (Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities), Dr. Nashwa Gaber (Director of Foreign Missions Affairs and Permanent Committees), and Dr. Mohamed Ismail (former Director of Foreign Missions Affairs and Permanent Committees), as well as the members of the Permanent Committee of the Supreme Council of Antiquities for permissions and advice as well as for their continued support.
The fieldwork is carried out in close coopeartion with our colleagues in Luxor: Dr. Mohamed Yehia (General Director of Antiquities for Upper-Egypt), Dr. El Kathafy El Azab (General Director of Antiquities for Luxor), Mr. Fathy Yasin Abd el-Karim (General Director of the West Bank of Luxor), Mr. Bahaa Abd el-Gaber Badawy (Director of the West Bank of Luxor), Mr. Ramadan Ahmed Ali Ahmed (General Director of Foreign Missions of the West Bank of Luxor), Mr. Ezz el-Din Kamal el-Nuby (Director of the Middle Area of the West Bank of Luxor), and Mr. Ahmed Boughdadi (Chief Inspector of the Middle Area of the West Bank of Luxor). We thank them all for their continued advice, support and assistance.