Gurob Harem Palace Projert

"The Gurob Harem Palace Project is an ongoing study of the urban and funerary remains at the ‘harim town’ of Mer-wer (or Mi-Wer) at the site of Medinet el-Ghurob – hereafter described as Gurob – in the southern Faiyum region.[1]The main area of settlement remains at the site can be clearly identified as the remains of an independent establishment relating to royal women (a ‘harim-palace’), founded in the reign of Thutmose III (1479-1425 BC) and occupied throughout the rest of the 18th Dynasty and presumably also for at least part of the Ramesside period. The inscriptions on stelae, papyri and various other inscribed artefacts from the main buildings at the site repeatedly include the titles of officials connected with the royal harim of Mer-wer. There was evidently a similar establishment at Memphis, but that site has not survived."