This talk was given by Dr Mélanie Flossmann-Schütze at the February 2026 meeting of the Essex Egyptology Group.
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Since 1989 an interdisciplinary team of the Faculty of Archaeology of Cairo University and the Institute for Egyptology of the LMU Munich have been investigating the archaeological site “Tuna el-Gebel” (Middle Egypt), the ancient necropolis of the capital of the 15th Upper Egyptian Nome and main cult centre of the god Thoth, Hermopolis Magna. In the past 40 years research has been focusing on 1) the subterranean animal necropolis (e.g. animal burials, cult chapels) including zooarchaeological examinations, 2) the superstructures including the temple of Osiris-Baboon and the “priests house”, 3) the settlements of the religious communities whose inhabitants lived in part along the processional way leading from the animal necropolis to Kom el-Loli, and 4) the Late Period to Roman period tombs of its members, including the famous tomb of Anch-Hor.