Sergio Alarcón Robledo is one of the architects working at the Polish-Egyptian Archaeological and Conservation Mission of the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari. He has studied Architecture at the Technical University of Madrid, and the MPhil of Egyptology at the University of Cambridge. His work has mainly focused on the excavation and interpretation of architectural evidence from ancient Egypt. His fieldwork experience includes his work at Deir el-Bahari and some nearby New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period tombs. This coming season he will also join the Middle Kingdom Theban Project and the Egypt Exploration Society’s Mission at Zawyet Sultan.
The temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, as one of the oldest known New Kingdom royal buildings, is key for the interpretation of the Theban mortuary temples, as well as for a better understanding of how the royal identity was shaped in the beginning of the New Kingdom. The talk will give an overview of the temple showing both its importance in the development of New Kingdom traditions and explaining the main archaeological and restoration works which have been carried out since 1855.
Mission website: http://www.templeofhatshepsut.uw.edu.pl/en/