Antiquities Minister Khaled el Anany headed to Luxor to inaugurate a conference dubbed Thebes in the first millennium B.C., the ministry announced in a statement.
Organized by the South Asasif Conservation Project (SACP,) the main focus of the conference is current archaeology and research on tombs and temples of the 25th and 26th Dynasties in the Theban area. Papers on other Egyptian sites and monuments of the Kushite and Saite Periods are also invited from all areas of research including archaeology, art history and history.
The event follows the success of the earlier conference under the same name, which was held in Luxor in 2012.
Thebes, better known as Luxor, was the capital city of Egypt during the New Kingdom Period (1,580 B.C-1,080 B.C.)
