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subscribe to the history of Vikings wherever you get your podcasts. Hello folks and welcome back to the history of Egypt podcast. This is news from the Field, Egyptology in 2023. This is a series that I used to do back in the day as a sort of semi-regular update of discoveries and important announcements within Egypt, Egyptian archaeology, and Egyptology generally.

The series kind of took a hold with the global pandemic, but the past 12 to 18 months have seen archaeology and Egyptology

return to their pre-pandemic activity. The past year has been especially active in terms of important discoveries and developments, and I thought

I'd do a summary of these to wrap the year up.

So without further ado, let's begin.

News from the field, Egyptology in 2023. Our first big discovery comes from Luxor. On the west bank of the Nile in a series of cliffs and valleys west of the Valley of the Queens,

an archaeological expedition thinks it may have found a new royal tomb.

The initial discovery took place on October 31st, 2022, and was announced to the public in January of 2023.

Subsequently, we have our first publication in the pages of Egyptian archaeology magazine, volume 63.

In this article, the head of the project, Dr. Piers Litholand, lays out the basic description

of the monument and some of the tentative conclusions about its owner.

The new tomb is in an area called the Western Wades, and architecturally it dates to the 18th

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