Joint Expedition to Malqata 2008-2013 at the Mummification Museum,Luxor

Joint Expedition to Malqata 2008-2013

The metropolitan museum of Art

The Michael C. Carlos Museum

The lecture was held at the Mummification Museum on Sunday 10^th of February and attended by 185 persons. (Duration 43 minutes)

It was 3-speaker lecture starting with the location of the site and the history of excavations since early 20^th century even though the site was known in the 19^th century and Wilkinson put a map of the site in 1830.

The site doesn’t stop at the king’s Palace but also expand for about 2.5 km north to south. The whole area was surrounded by a wall to protect it for further excavations by the Minister State of Antiquities.

For all the information available on the site, almost daily updates on the excavation work plus the previous season’s reports, please visit the expedition blog at iMalqata