Eighth Ibero-American Congress of Egyptology

From 7 to 9 September, the Hotel Exe Campus located at the Vila Universitària will host the 8th Ibero-American Congress of Egyptology, organised by the UAB Institute of Near Eastern Studies. The event will bring together representatives from the field of Ibero-American Egyptology and aims to contribute to the development of the discipline and the creation of networks for debate and academic exchange among researchers.

The programme will open with new discoveries from the Spanish-Egyptian archaeological mission at the double mastaba of Yunmin and Iti in Saqqara, and will present the results of numerous excavations and research projects at sites such as the Theban Necropolis, Qubbet el-Hawa, Heracleopolis Magna, Oxyrhynchus, and Tell el-Ghaba.

The sessions will cover a wide range of issues: funeral practices and embalming, the gods and beliefs about the afterlife, tomb art, astronomy, language and texts, and the economy and resource management. There will be a series of specific sessions on the role of women and gender representation. There will also be discussion of daily life, social exclusion, the priesthood, and magic.

The congress will also show how new technologies are transforming the discipline, with work on photogrammetry, virtual reconstruction, radiological analysis of mummies and immersive technology applied to collections. The programme will be completed with sessions on museums, conservation, accessibility, outreach and Egyptomania. In addition, on Wednesday evening there will be the premiere of the documentary KKh19-22: Archaeological Diary, which will be attended by the director, Albert Triviño.
 
Second congress held at the UAB 

This is the second time the UAB is hosting this congress, as another edition was held there in 2001. Twenty-five years have passed, and during this time, the Ibero-American Egyptological landscape has undergone significant changes. There has been a marked increase—in both quantity and quality—in publications by Ibero-American Egyptologists and in archaeological missions to Egypt led by universities and research centres. Furthermore, the UAB has taken the lead in Egyptological education through its master's degree in Egyptology—active since 2009—pioneering a path that other universities are now also beginning to follow, thanks to the discipline's newfound vitality.