Hartwig Altenmüller Hamburg University biography (in German) (born 1938, in

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) is a German

Egyptologist Egyptology (from ''Egypt'' and Greek , '' -logia''; ar, علم المصريات) is the study of ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, architecture and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religious ...

. He became professor at the Archaeological Institute of the

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in 1971. He worked as an archaeologist in

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from 1969 to 1982, and then the

Valley of the Kings The Valley of the Kings ( ar, وادي الملوك ; Late Coptic: ), also known as the Valley of the Gates of the Kings ( ar, وادي أبوا الملوك ), is a valley in Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the 16th to 11th ...

(where he worked on

KV13 Tomb KV13, located in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, was cut and decorated for the burial of the noble Bay of the Nineteenth Dynasty. An ostraca published in the French Egyptological journal BIFAO in 2000 records that Chancellor Bay was execu ...

KV14 Tomb KV14 is a joint tomb, used originally by Twosret and then reused and extended by Setnakhte. It has been open since antiquity, but was not properly recorded until Hartwig Altenmüller excavated it from 1983 to 1987. Located in the main body o ...

and

KV47 Tomb KV47, located in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, was used for the burial of Pharaoh Siptah of the Nineteenth Dynasty. It was discovered on December 18, 1905 by Edward R. Ayrton, excavating on behalf of Theodore M. Davis; Siptah's mummy had ...

) from 1984 to 1998, retiring in 2003.

Publications

* ''Zwei Annalenfragmente aus dem frühen Mittleren Reich'', Hamburg 2015, * "Lederbänder und Lederanhänger von der Mumie des Chonsu-maacheru" and "Die Mumienbinden des Chonsu-maacheru " in Alt-Ägypten 30 (2000), pp. 73–76, 88–89, 102–114

* "Zwei Ostraka und ein Baubefund: Zum Tod des Schatzkanzlers Bay im 3 Regierungsjahr des Siptah." ''Göttinger Miszellen: Beiträge zur Ägyptologische Diskussion'' 171: 13–18 (1999). * "Dritter Vorbericht uber die Arbeiten des Archäologischen Instituts der Universität Hamburg am Grab des Bay (KV 13) im Tal der Könige von Theben." ''Studien zur altägyptischen Kultur'' 21: 1–18 (1994). * "Bemerkungen zu den Königsgräbern des Neuen Reiches." ''Studien zur altägyptischen Kultur'' 10: 25–61 (1983).

References

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