Open AccessC2 Project. The Royal Cache Wadi Survey. 2017 campaign
Author(s) -
José Ramón Pérez-Accino,
Hisham El- Leithy
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
trabajos de egiptología
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1695-4750
DOI - 10.25145/j.tde.2019.10.17
Subject(s) - wadi , cache , archaeology , ancient history , interpretation (philosophy) , geography , history , computer science , operating system , programming language
Since the discovery of the royal mummies in 1881, and in accordance with the conclusions of the Lansing campaign in 1920, the Royal Cache Wadi (or C2 Valley) on the West Bank at Luxor has been assumed to be archaeologically deserted. Since 2017, the C2 Project of Universidad Complutense of Madrid has returned to the site in order to explore the valley as a whole, not as though it were defined exclusively by the cache tomb TT 320. The results of the Project’s research to date challenge the interpretation of the Wadi either as archaeologically deserted or exclusively as an ancient hiding place, insofar as evidence of human activity indicates that other elements of the valley were significant in antiquity.