Special Lecture “100th Anniversary of the Tutankhamun Tomb excavation: Current Excavation in the Valley of the Kings”
The Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties and the Institute for the Study of Ancient Civilizations and Cultural Resources at Kanazawa University co-organized a special lecture, “100th Anniversary of the Tutankhamun Tomb Excavation: Current Excavation in the Valley of the Kings” on April 30, 2023, presented at the Auditorium of Heiseikan in the Tokyo National Museum. This special lecture was planned to announce the latest results of excavations in the Valley of the Kings, which is the necropolis of Ancient Egypt, commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Tutankhamun tomb excavation.
We invited Prof. Suzanne Bickel, who heads the Kings’ Valley Project, from Basel University in Switzerland for this special lecture. She discovered the 64th tomb there in 2011-2012, and is one of the researchers who led the study concerning the kings’ necropolis. She presented the archaeological and anthropological research outcomes on Kings’ Valley tomb No. 40, in which family members of Amenhotep III and court women living in the eighteenth dynasty in the New Kingdom were buried, which was investigated by the Kings’ Valley Project from Basel University. Moreover, Dr. KONDO Jiro, a professor emeritus at Waseda University, who excavated the tomb of King Amenhotep III, and Dr. KAWAI Nozomu, a professor at Kanazawa University, who studied about the mysterious Queen Neferneferuaten of the eighteenth dynasty, also made presentations.
In total, 275 people attended the special lecture, and we provided highly specialized archaeological content based on excavation research results to them. We will continue to hold similar lectures to actively broaden the research achievements.