Theban Tomb 209 (South Asasif,
West. Bank, Luxor), was built during the
Twenty-Fifth Dynasty, probably during the
second half of the 8th century BCE. lt was
reused as a burial place during Persian and
Ptolemaic Periods, and was filled by sediments
carried by floodwaters that passed
through the Wadi Hatasun until it was completely
covered in the following centuries. A
preliminary st.udy of three mummies discovered
during the work of the Archaeological Mission of the University of La Laguna is presented
in this paper. They were uncovered
during the 201 8 season, in one of the side
chambers of the tomb, being the upper level
of a larger mortuary deposit whose excavation
is st.ill in progress.These preliminary st.udies
were undertaken from the perspective of
ost.eoarchaeology, which combines disciplines
such as physical anthropology and funerary
archaeology in order to reconstruct life and
death in ancient populations.
