Welcome

Welcome to the website of the Luxor Archaeological Heritage Foundation, a non-profit organisation aimed at providing financial support for the TT45 Project of the Leiden University Mission to the Theban Necropolis. The team is directed by Dr. Carina van den Hoven and undertakes fieldwork in Theban Tomb 45 (TT45) in Sheikh ʿAbd el-Qurna, a UNESCO World Heritage Site on the west bank of the Nile, opposite modern Luxor.

The main aims of the fieldwork project are to carry out conservation, documentation, publication, art historical analysis, archaeological study, heritage preservation and site management activities in and around Theban Tomb 45. The acquired data are documented and published using the most recent tools and developments in the field of Digital Humanities. As such, this project aims to contribute significantly to the development and application of non-invasive digital technologies to the documentation, publication and accessibility of ancient material culture. The project also provides training opportunities to young local conservators, egyptologists, and archaeologists.

The fieldwork project is funded by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung. A special pilot project on the application of digital technologies is sponsored by the Netherlands Institute for the Near East (Leiden University), and the Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities. We closely cooperate with our colleagues of the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and of the Luxor and Qurna Inspectorates of Antiquities in studying and preserving Egypt’s cultural heritage, and we thank them for their advice, support and assistance. We also thank our colleagues at the Department of Egyptology, Leiden University and at the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo for their administrative and logistic support.

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