In this lecture Dr. Francisco Martín-Valentín, director of the Spanish archaeological mission “Vizier Amenhotep-Huy Project” in Luxor and president of the Fundación del Instituto de Estudios del Antiguo Egipto, will talk about the “Vizier Amen-Hotep Huy (AT 28) Project”, an initiative of the Instituto de Estudios del Antiguo Egipto in Madrid that was launched in 2009 and continues to this day.
Tomb AT-28 in El-Assasif belonged to Amen-Hotep Huy, Vizier of the South during the reign of Amenhotep III (around 1360 BCE). It is located in the El-Assasif necropolis, situated on the west bank of the River Nile, in the city of Luxor. With a total floor area of 792,637 square metres, it has an entrance passage, an irregular-shaped outdoor courtyard (419,879 square metres) and a T-shaped chamber-chapel (372,758 square metres).
The archaeological project, one of the most important currently under way in Egypt, involves excavations of the Vizier’s tomb (which contains eleven secondary tombs) as well as major epigraphic and artistic restorations in the chapel.
Dr. Martín-Valentín will explain the results obtained since the project began in 2009.
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BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
Francisco Martín-Valentín is an Egyptologist and director of the “Vizier Amen-Hotep Huy (AT 28) Project”. He has a PhD in Religion Sciences, specialising in the Egyptian religion, from the Complutense University of Madrid. With long professional experience in Egypt, since 2009 he has been the director of the Spanish archaeological mission “Vizier Amen-Hotep Huy Project”, and from 1998 to 2008 he was director of the “Sen-en-Mut Project” in Luxor, another Spanish archaeological mission.
For the last thirty or more years, Dr. Martín-Valentín has also been teaching courses on Egyptology at universities around the globe, including the Complutense, Autónoma, Carlos III and Rey Juan Carlos universities in Madrid, Málaga University, Minia and Cairo universities in Egypt, Montevideo University (Uruguay), Externado University (Bogotá) and Universidad Católica Bolivariana in Medellín (Colombia).
Dr. Martín-Valentín has taken part in conferences and taught courses at institutions such as the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid, the Archaeology Museum in Pontevedra, the Fundación Sophia in Palma de Mallorca and the Instituto Valenciano de Egiptología in Valencia, and he supervises master’s dissertations and doctoral theses. He has also organised major exhibitions and is the recipient of numerous distinctions.
Full CV here.