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El Futuro Del Pasado, 2024

En el ámbito arqueológico, una de las ultimas fronteras de conocimiento se ha situado en el enten... more En el ámbito arqueológico, una de las ultimas fronteras de conocimiento se ha situado en el entendimiento de la mente antigua a través de sus restos materiales. En las últimas décadas, aprovechando las innovaciones técnicas y epistemológicas, se ha abierto un nuevo abanico de posibilidades para este tipo de estudios. La llamada arqueología cognitiva nace para resolver el problema paradigmático entre naturaleza y cultura y para intentar estudiar los procesos cognitivos de las sociedades pasadas en la creación y desarrollo cultural que se dio en ellas. El presente estudio pretende poner en valor dicha especialidad arqueológica, haciendo un repaso de su historiografía y poniendo de relevancia uno de los campos de estudio de esta especialidad que es la llamada cognición 4E. Por último, proponemos la inclusión del paisaje como un elemento fundamental de estudio dentro de esta especialidad, por su influencia y rol en el desarrollo cultural, como han demostrado estudios muy recientes. Una aproximación donde las barreras entre ciencias exactas y sociales debe romperse para obtener un mejor entendimiento de la cultura como totalidad.

La familia en la Antigüedad. Estudios desde la interdisciplinariedad, 2024

Espacio Tiempo y Forma. Serie VII, Historia del Arte, 2023

The tomb TT 100, belonging to the vizier Rekhmire, in the Theban necropolis (Luxor, Egypt), one o... more The tomb TT 100, belonging to the vizier Rekhmire, in the Theban necropolis (Luxor, Egypt), one of the best examples of funerary architecture of the Egyptian New Kingdom, has been widely studied since the beginning of the 20th century from the iconographic, historical and archaeological points of view. However, it has an anomalous structural feature for the classic Theban tomb typology of this period: a longitudinal corridor with a sloping ceiling ending in a combination of false stela and niche for a funerary statue. The anomaly, widely noted in classical literature, has been vaguely explained and often forgotten due to the celebrated decorative program that occupies the tomb.
This study aims to offer a reinterpretation of this architectural feature of the tomb based on a landscape archaeology approach. According to this methodology, the ancestral landscape of the necropolis, and the architectural and artistic features of the tomb of his relative and predecessor in the vizierate Useramun are significant elements for the interpretation of this element. The main result is Rekhmire’s clear intention to emulate and replicate Useramun’s double funerary structure, not only from the artistic point of view (already demonstrated in previous studies) but also from the spatial point of view, copying the phenomenological experience of space and landscape in the architectural development of his tomb. An example of how landscape archaeology can be useful in the study of the art of this ancient culture.

O. el-Aguizy and B. Kasparian (eds), ICE XII. Proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress of Egyptologists, 3rd—8th November 2019, Cairo. IFAO, Bibliothèque générale 71, Cairo, 2023

Project is a Spanish-Egyptian mission, directed by José-R. Pérez-Accino (Universidad Complutense,... more Project is a Spanish-Egyptian mission, directed by José-R. Pérez-Accino (Universidad Complutense, Madrid) and Hisham el-Leithy (CEDAE, Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, Egypt), currently working at the Royal Cachette wadi, immediately south of Deir el-Bahari bay, in Luxor West Bank. The project has so far carried out three campaigns, in 2017, 2019 and 2020, to survey the graffiti in the area and to try to identify and understand the human activity there in antiquity. The site has seen previous interventions: the Royal Cache (TT 320) was found probably around 1871 by the Abd el-Rassoul brothers and explored and emptied in 1881 by Emile Brugsch and Ahmed Kamal, and published by Gaston Maspero. 1 Subsequent relevant archaeological actions were carried out. In 1920, Ambrose Lansing (under Herbert Winlock direction), from the Metropolitan Museum of New York, began some archaeological surveys at the entrance of the wadi and also around TT 320, including the cleaning of the tomb's shaft. 2 Recently, a German-Russian mission directed by Erhart Graefe and Galina Belova reexamined the tomb. 3 This project focused on the study of the mentioned tomb and its characteristics. The only other traces of human activity previously attested in the wadi were the graffiti. Wilhelm Spiegelberg was the first scholar interested in these inscriptions. He identified a high number of them in a survey carried out in 1895 and published in 1921. 4 Afterwards, Jaroslav Černý continued the research on graffiti (1956). 5 During 1960s, a monumental recompilation of graffiti started to be published, and later a new survey to identify all the graffiti of the Theban mountain was carried out by the Documentation Centre of Ancient Egypt (CEDAE), directed by Jaroslav Černý and Abd el-Aziz Fahmy Sadek, and published in booklets (1974). 6 This publication is the starting point of our work due to its detailed cartography and the amount of information provided. The name "C2" was coined in the survey done by this Egyptian-French expedition.

"The Embracing Mountain: The Latest Research in the Royal Cachette wadi, Luxor West Bank", in M. H. Trindade, A. Patricio, Images, Perceptions and Productions in and of Antiquity, Cambridge, pp. 100-114, 2023

The C2 Project is a Spanish-Egyptian mission, directed by José-R. Pérez- Accino (Universidad Comp... more The C2 Project is a Spanish-Egyptian mission, directed by José-R. Pérez-
Accino (Universidad Complutense, Madrid) and Hisham Elleythi (CEDAE,
Ministry of Antiquities, Egypt), currently working at the Royal Cache wadi,
which is immediately south of Deir el-Bahari Bay in Luxor West Bank. The
project has carried out two campaigns so far, in 2017 and 2019, aimed at
surveying the graffiti in the mountain and attempting to identify and
understand the human activity carried out there in antiquity.
The site has seen previous interventions: the Royal Cachette (TT 320) was
probably founded around 1871 by the Abd el-Rassoul brothers, and then
explored and emptied in 1881 by Emile Brugsch and Ahmed Kamal.
Subsequent relevant archaeological actions were carried out by Lansing
(1920), who made an extensive archaeological intervention of the whole
wadi, and Graefe and Belova (2010), who focused on the cachette itself.
The only other traces of human activity in the wadi so far are the graffiti,
which has been surveyed by Spiegelberg (1921), Cerny (1956), and Cerny
and Sadek (1974).

Invisible Archaeologies. Hidden aspects of daily life in ancient Egypt and Nubia, 2019

Tortured, Banished, Forgotten (and Frequently Ripped Off)? Experience of Ancient Egyptian Crimina... more Tortured, Banished, Forgotten (and Frequently Ripped Off)? Experience of Ancient Egyptian Criminal Judgment and its Consequences through the 2nd Millennium BCE��6

Actas I Jornadas de Jóvenes Investigadores en Arqueología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 23 de febrero de 2016, 2017

Conference Presentations by Antonio Muñoz Herrera

In Thy Arms, Abstracts of Papers. , 2019

"The embracing mountain: newest research in the Royal Cachette Wadi" José Ramón Pérez-Accino, In... more "The embracing mountain: newest research in the Royal Cachette Wadi"
José Ramón Pérez-Accino, Inmaculada Vivas, Antonio Muñoz.

International Congress 'In thy arms I lost myself’ – Images, Perceptions and Productions in/ of Antiquity”
Lisbon, 9-11 October 2019

Topografía sagrada y legitimidad: Nuevas aproximaciones a la arqueología del paisaje en la necróp... more Topografía sagrada y legitimidad: Nuevas aproximaciones a la arqueología del paisaje en la necrópolis tebana.

Posters by Antonio Muñoz Herrera

The tomb TT 320, known as the “Royal Cachette” of Deir el-Bahari, discovered in 1871 by Abd el-Ra... more The tomb TT 320, known as the “Royal Cachette” of Deir el-Bahari, discovered in 1871 by Abd el-Rasul family and excavated in 1881 by Brugsch and Maspero, has been subjected to numerous studies since its first publication (Maspero 1889).
Discussions relating its dating and its original owner have been complex. At this respect, the works of Breasted (1906), Reeves (1990), Berlev and Hodjash (1998) and the re- examination of the tomb by Graefe and Belova in 2010 have been crucial in order to reach significant conclusions. Moreover, the discovery of two graffiti near the cachette’s shaft by Repzka in 2004, which link the tomb with Nubkheperrere Intef, has revived the debate. The Spanish-Egyptian mission, C2 Project, directed by Dr. Pérez-Accino (UCM), has conducted a survey of the whole Cachette’s wadi. New finds, and the hypothesis that they open, allow us not only to reinterpret the classical dating information of the tomb, but also the role of the tomb within its landscape. We could probably reassessed certain paradigms associated with its placement and its selection as ‘secret space’ as well.
This paper has the aim to present to the community the last findings of the C2 Project regarding the Cachette, as well as new interpretations of this sacred space.