The Latest Discoveries At The Funeral Temple Of Ramses II

The Latest Discoveries At The Funeral Temple Of Ramses II

Archaeologists have finally found physical evidence for something they had long suspected: the temple complex included an educational institution, likely for training scribes and priests. They have also discovered a collection of tombs dating from several centuries after Ramses, indicating that the site was in use long after he died. – Artnet

In the heart of Luxor, on the west bank of the Nile, a joint team of the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt, the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the University of Paris-Sorbonne has uncovered new structures in the Ramesseum complex, the funeral temple of Ramses II. These excavations, the results of which were disseminated in an official communiqué of the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, reveal for the first t…