The French-Egyptian Centre for the Study of the Temples of Karnak (CFEETK- MoTA/CNRS) is pleased to announce a new symposium to be held in Luxor on the 7th and 8th of February 2025: the Preservation and Transmission of Archeological Heritage symposium (PTAH). The conference will take place at the Mummification Museum in Luxor.

A Call for Communications is now open to all Egyptian and international conservators working in the Theban valley (and other professionals whose work is related to conservation).

To submit your communications, please send us by e-mail a title, an abstract of 300 words maximum and the chosen theme (see the call for communications pdf for further informations) by the 14th of August 2024 at ptah.symposium@gmail.com.

Communications will be held in English and is limited to 20 minutes ; proposals for posters are also welcomed (guidelines to be provided).

PTAH 2025 : Announcement and call for communications PDF in English and PDF in French.

The PTAH committee members :

Agnès Oboussier (chief conservator of CFEETK, CNRS)
Mohamed Gad Ahmed (Chief conservator of the Karnak temples, MoTA)
Zeinab Mohsen (Chief conservator of the temple of Amun at Karnak, MoTA)
Laura Bontemps (Free-lance conservator and PhD candidate at Héritage/s)
Manon Lefevre (Free-lance conservator, CFEETK collaborator)
Bianca Madden (Free-lance conservator, ARCE collaborator)