Projekt Tuna el-Gebel 2025

Projekt Tuna el-Gebel 2025, Archaeological Projects

The Projekt Tuna el-Gebel from the Landesmuseum Hannover, directed since 2017 by Dr Katja Lembke and Dr Jenny Schleofer as the assistant field director, works in the Graeco-Roman site called Tuna el-Gebel, an area used as a burial ground by the people who lived in Heracleopolis Magna (today’s Ashmunein).

The city-like cemetery of stone and mud brick tombs is famous for holding the tomb of Petosiris and the extensive catacombs where baboons, ibis and other animals where buried, but the mission from the Landesmuseum works in the mud brick tombs, known as house tombs.

In 2025 took place a study season, therefore all the specialists worked in the dig-house, not in the field, studying the objects found in previous seasons, such as pottery belonging to the Roman and Byzantine periods, Roman coins that needed restoration from a heavy and stuck corrosion, and Roman glass objects.

All images © Patricia Mora & Projekt Tuna el-Gebel.