Our inaugural symposium was held online on the 27th July 2026. It contained five presentations made by Waleed Hawatky, Maarten Praet, Trent Hugler, David Brugger and Ernesto Graf who were amongst the first early career Egyptologists to receive a Kemet Klub grant to support their research. With over 250 people involved in the event it was lively, full of questions all fuelled by five outstanding lectures. We were kindly given permission to record a few of these talks which you can enjoy here.
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Here Comes the Sun: A diachronic study on the role of Music during the Amarna Period
Waleed explored the music of the Armarna Period, and through his research, he is able to suggest how the sounds of Akhenaten’s Egypt were louder and more complex than what had gone before!
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Édouard Naville’s 1896 Fieldwork Season: The Case of Mentuhotep “Buau”
Maarten’s research aims to uncover the lost tomb of Montuhotep Buau, within the mortuary complex of Montuhotep II at Deir El Bahari. He showcases some of the finds from this tombs and uses archival evidence to identify its location and to tell its story.
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Hatshepsut Erasure
Erasure and forms of reuse, such as restoration, recarving and substitution, are complex materially and stratigraphically constrained processes. However, when multiple epigraphic interventions are present on a monument, the sequence of various carvings and the monument’s architectural context are critical for understanding the means and intention behind them. This is undoubtedly true of Hatshepsut’s damnatio memoriae. This paper shares some preliminary conclusions on this matter, adopting the case study of the Amun precinct at Karnak, deriving from recent fieldwork in the Karnak temple complex in December ’25 to January ’26, which was supported by the Kemet Klub
Deir el-Medina’s Private Statuary Practice: Insights into Preliminary results
This project investigates private statuary practices at Deir el-Medina, the New Kingdom artists’ village on the Theban West Bank, by analysing statues within their exceptional archaeological context. It assembles a dispersed and largely unpublished corpus, mostly fragmentary pieces still on site. Moving beyond art historical approaches by combining archaeological, visual, textual, and socio-historical analyses, the research examines how individuals used statues for self-presentation.
Preliminary archaeological results and a case study will offer insights from the newly consolidated dataset and demonstrate how contextualised study of Deir el-Medina material may reshape interpretations of New Kingdom and ancient Egyptian non-royal statuary more broadly.
The inscriptions of the funerary procession of Neferhotep (TT49): challenges and new perspectives at the dawn of the post-Amarna Period.
Located on the vestibule of TT49, the inscriptions of the funerary procession of Neferhotep are considered some of the most challenging texts in the entire tomb. Through their iconography and structure, they not only evoke the journey of the deceased, equating its destiny with the one of the Sun, but also codify the rituals needed for accessing the hereafter. The present talk will outline the work carried out by Ernesto Graf at the Conservation and Research Project of the Tomb of Neferhotep with the hope of offering new insights of the decorative program of TT49 and, in doing so, partake in Neferhotep’s procession to the West.