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1st-31st Friends of the Egypt Centre – Swansea.

A series of ‘Young Children’s Workshops’. Must be booked in Advance. Contact Society for Details.

3rd Essex Egyptology Group.

Free Mike Night – Members talk about their own interests in Egyptology.

6th Staffordshire Egyptology Society.

Michael Tunnicliffe: Egyptian Pharaohs & Hebrew Kings.

10th Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society.

Lunch & Members’ Miscellany.

11th Wirral Ancient Egypt Society.

Victor Blunden: Coffin Decoration – Protection through the Ages.

16th Society for the Study of Ancient Egypt – Chesterfield Venue.

DAY SCHOOL: Strange Tales from Ancient Egypt – The Mysterious World of the West

Karen Excell: Art, Sex and Death in Ancient Egypt.

Chris Kirby: A Tale of Two Giants – The Art of the Colossal in Ancient Egypt.

Penny Wilson: Who was Osiris? How the Egyptian State invented gods and how everyone got around it.

Dylan Bickerstaffe: The Curse of Amun – The True Story of Akhenaten’s Ill-Fated Play.

19th The O2, in conjuction with the Exhibition

Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs.

Zahi Hawass: Mysteries of Tutankhamun Revealed.

7.00pm, at the Indigo 2, the O2, London. Tickets £14.50 on the door or in advance from: www.ticketmaster.co.uk , or tel: 0870 534 4444, or at the O2 Box Office.

29-31st Knuston Hall Residential College (Northants).

Victor Blunden, Tutor: Egyptian Art & Society. Contact Knuston Hall, tel: 019933 312104, email: enquiries @ knustonhall.org.uk, web-site: www.knustonhall.org.uk

30th Sussex Egyptology Society – Brighton Venue.

Alan Alford: The Pyramid & the Creation Myth.

1st Tameside Egypt Group.

John Johnson: The Colossi of Memnon.

3rd Staffordshire Egyptology Society.

Members’ Evening.

3rd Wirral Ancient Egypt Society.

At 7.30pm. Dorothy Downes: Twelfth Dynasty - The Classic Age.

5-7th Urchfont Manor College (Wiltshire).

Residential Course. Victor Blunden, Tutor: Ancient Egypt - Gods, Temples & Tombs.

For further details, tel: 01380 840495, e-mail: urchfontmanor @ wiltshire.gov.uk  web: www.urchfontmanor.co.uk

6th Wessex Ancient Egypt Society.

Peter Phillips: Old Kingdom Architecture.

7th Essex Egyptology Group.

Colin Reader: Khufu Knew the Sphinx.

6-7th The Ancient World Conference - Reading University.

8th Manchester Ancient Egypt Society.

Steven Gregory: Herihor - High Priest or King?

11th Egypt Exploration Society - Bolton Museum Lecture.

Nettie Adams: From Ibrim to Bolton - Rags to Riches. 7.30 pm. Further details from: Tom Hardwick, tel. 01204 332212, email tom.hardwick @ bolton.gov.uk

12th RAMASES.

AGM Meeting

13th Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society.

AGM & Lecture. Jackie Campbell: Pharmacy of the Pharaohs.

13th Southampton Ancient Egypt Society.

AGM & Lecture. Hilary Wilson: Egypt and the Aegean Connection.

17th Bolton Archaeology & Egyptology Society.

Julian Richards & Caroline Wilkinson:

18th Three Counties Ancient History Society.

Ray Aspden: Problems with the New Chronology.

19th Poynton Egypt Group.

Carol Andrews: Unusual Egypt - what the visitor never sees.

20th Ancient Egypt & Middle East Society.

Lectures & Lunch; Morning - Debbie Miller: Ancient Egypt and Europe in the early Nineteenth Century … and Giraffes.

Afternoon - John Bimson: Egyptians in Jerusalem?

20th Egyptian Society, Taunton.

Lucia Gahlin: Akhenaten - the Man and the Myths.

20th Plymouth & District Egyptology Society.

AGM followed by Stevie Doidge: Saqqara, the Necropolis of Mennefer.

24th North Yorkshire Ancient Egypt Group.

Members’ Evening.

25th Carlisle & District Egyptology Society.

Michael Tunnicliffe: Egypt & the Bible - Who do you Believe?

25th Horus Egyptology Society.

Charlotte Booth: Battles of Ramesses II and III.

27th Leicestershire Ancient Egypt Society.

Dylan Bickerstaffe: The Niagara Mummy Mystery.

27th Sussex Egyptology Society - Worthing Venue.

Sally Ann Ashton: Fieldwork at North Karnak.

29th Northampton Ancient Egypt Historical Society.

Carol Andrews: Life along the Nile in Ancient Times.

1st Failsworth Historical Society (Manchester).

Victor Blunden: The New Kingdom Tombs of Luxor. Contact: John Crompton, tel: 0161-684 3595, e-mail: mrjohncrompton @ yahoo.co.uk

1st Staffordshire Egyptology Society.

Julia Bell: A trek across the Egyptian desert on horseback.

3rd Friends of the Petrie Museum.

Yvonne Harpur and Paolo Scremin: Most recent work in the Old Kingdom tombs at Saqqara.

4th Plymouth & District Egyptology Society.

Robert Morkot: Travellers on the Nile in 1818-1819.

4th RAMESES.

STUDY DAY hosted by Joyce Filer: Aspects of Mummification.

4th Wessex Ancient Egypt Society.

AGM followed by Charlotte Booth: The Hyksos Period.

5th Essex Egyptology Group.

Victor Blunden: The Reign of Ramesses III.

6th Tameside Egypt Group.

Alan Reiblein: Cleopatra.

11th Egyptology Scotland - Glasgow Branch.

David Lightbody: Ancient Science.

11th Society for the Study of Ancient Egypt - Nottingham Branch.

Lucia Gahlin: Living in the Shadow of the Pyramids - Old Kingdom Towns at Giza.

11th Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society.

Charlotte Booth: Ethnicity in Ancient Egypt - an insight into the self-identity of the Egyptians.

11-12th Lamb Guild (Manchester).

Residential Weekend. Tutor - Victor Blunden: Ancient Egypt - Gods, Temples & Tombs. Contact: The Hon Treasurer, Mr W. Ovington, tel: 0161 445 9494.

13th Manchester Ancient Egypt Society.

George Hart: The Reign and Monuments of the Pharaoh Seti I.

13th Wirral Ancient Egypt Society.

Claire Malleson: Daily Life in a Workmen’s Village.

15th Three Counties Ancient History Society.

Gareth Roberts: Egypt and the Sea Peoples.

17th Poynton Egypt Group.

TBA.

18th Ancient Egypt & Middle East Society.

Lecture & Lunch. Morning speaker, TBA. Afternoon Speaker, Christoph Bachhuber:

18th Leicestershire Ancient Egypt Society.

TBA.

18th Southampton Ancient Egypt Society.

Martin Davis: An Introduction to Ancient Egyptian Art.

20th Bolton Archaeology & Egyptology Society.

DAY SCHOOL: Egypt’s Sun King.

Speakers Angela Thomas & Joyce Tyldesley discuss Akhenaten, Nefertiti & Tutankhamun. For further details contact: www.octagonbolton.co.uk/Egypt.asp

21st Egypt Society of Bristol.

Kathryn Piquette: Egypt’s Earliest Writing.

23rd Carlisle & District Egyptology Society.

Charlotte Booth: Preparing the Body for Eternity.

23rd Petrie Museum, UCL, London.

Exhibition of photographs:Glorious Kush now Ancient Sudan.

Also filmmaker Louis Buckley presents his new film on Sudan and archaeology. 6-8pm. Contact the Petrie Museum, tel: 020 7679 2884, e-mail: petrie.museum @ ucl.ac.uk web: www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk 

25th EES Study Day, S.O.A.S., London.

25th Egyptian Society, Taunton.

AGM Meeting & lecture. Speaker: Robert Morkot.

25th Egyptology Scotland - Edinburgh Branch.

Victor Blunden: Artwork of the Egyptian Book of the Dead.

25th Sussex Egyptology Society - Horsham Venue.

Rosalind Janssen: Memories of a ‘Golden Boy’ - John Pendlebury at el-Amarna.

29th North Yorkshire Ancient Egypt Group.

Members’ Evening.

30th The British Egyptian Society.

Jean-Marcel Humbert: Bonaparte et l'Egypte. The curator of the French exhibition lectures this side of the Channel. Contact Society for details and availability.

30th The Petrie Museum, UCL, London.

Authors Angelina Osborne and Robin Walker in Conversation. Discussion of Egypt’s place in the ancient & medieval history of Africa. In G06, Sir Ambrose Fleming Lecture Theatre, Roberts Building. Talk begins at 6.00pm, followed by a drinks reception in the Petrie Museum 7.15-8.00pm. Tickets limited. Contact the Petrie Museum, tel: 020 7679 2884, e-mail: petrie.museum @ ucl.ac.uk web: www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk

31st Friends of the Petrie Museum.

Joanne Fletcher: Cleopatra.

31st- Knuston Hall Residential 2nd Nov. College (Northants).

Victor Blunden, Tutor: Ancient Egypt - Gods Temples & Tombs. Contact Knuston Hall,

tel: 019933 312104, email: enquiries @ knustonhall.org.uk , web-site: www.knustonhall.org.uk

Until 30th August 2008

EXHIBITION – THE O2 (“THE DOME”), GREENWICH, LONDON

TUTANKHAMUN AND THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE PHARAOHS

Website: www.KingTut.org

(See also page 10 of June/July magazine.)

EXHIBITION, MONACO: REINES D’EGYPTE (Queens of Egypt)

Billed as “the largest Egyptian exhibition ever to be staged in Europe and the first to focus on the female pharaohs, wives, mothers and daughters who influencedthree thousand years of Egyptian history”. More than 250 items on loan from the world’s leading museums, including the British Museum, the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Musée du Louvre and the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. At the Grimaldi Forum, Principality of Monaco. Every day from 10am to 8pm. Late-night opening on Thursdays and Saturdays until 10pm. Further information: www.grimaldiforum.mc . Adults 10 euros; Groups 8 euros; Students 6 euros; Children under 12 free. Ticket Office: tel: +377 99 99 3000, email: ticket@grimaldiforum.mc.

Until  28th Sept. 2008

EXHIBITION, VIENNA: TUTANKHAMUN AND THE WORLD OF THE PHARAOHS

Museum fur Volkerkunde, Neue Burg, Heldenplatz, 1010, Vienna, Austria. For more information, visit the web site www.tut.khm.at   Objects on loan from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, more than seventy objects from Tutankhamun’s tomb and seventy-five other objects from tombs in the Valley of the Kings etc. (including the gold mask of Psusennes from Tanis).

16th April - 28th September 2008

EXHIBITION, MADRID: EGYPT’S SUNKEN TREASURES

An exhibition of the underwater finds, off the coast of Alexandria, by Frank Goddio. Matadero Madrid: Área de las Artes, Ayuntamiento de Madrid, C/Gran Via, 24, Planta Baja, 28013 ES-Madrid.

An exhibition on Amarna architecture at the Romisch-Germanische Museum in Cologne. For details contact: http://www.museenkoeln.de/ausstellungen/rgm_0805_echnaton

The life, love and legacy of Rome’s most enigmatic emperor. To book tickets or for more information phone +44 (0)20 7323 8181 or visit the museum's web site www.britishmuseum.org

Hosted jointly by the KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology at the University of Manchester and the National Research Centre in Cairo. The first international conference that aims to bring together the two elements of ancient Egyptian healthcare practices: phamacy and medicine. Speakers will include Dr. Wafaa El- Saddiq, Director of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo and Dr. John Taylor, from the British Museum. Details from: www.manchester.ac.uk/egyptology/newsandevents

Speakers – Romuald Schild: The Neolithic Sanctuary of Nabta Playa. Christopher Naunton: The Tomb of Harwa – Enormous, Complex & Virtually Unknown. Lucia Gahlin: Voyages to God’s Land – Egyptian Trade with Punt. Ted Brock & Lyla Pinch Brock: The Valley of the Kings. Ayman Wahby Taher: Latest Discoveries in Egypt. Bettany Hughes: Sparta & the Spartans. Terry Jones: The Barbarians. Barry Kemp: Amarna. For further details contact AWT, tel: 020 7917 9494, e-mail: conference@ancient.co.uk , web: www.ancient.co.uk 

Tutor: Vivian Raisman Beginners’ Class: 7th October 2008; Advanced Class: 8th October 2008; Late Egyptian: 29th April 2009. For more details, see www.city.ac.uk/cae/ps08

At the Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA). More than two centuries after the Nile Campaign (1798- 1801), IMA proposes a re-examination of the French expedition and its long term repercussions. Nearly 400 works on display from 61 public and private collections, notably from Egypt. For further information, visit the web site www.imarabe.org

Speakers – Mark Collier: Villainy and Evidence. The Infamous Chief Workman Paneb – what do we really know about him and how do we know this? Karen Exell: The Tomb Scribe Ramose – the king’s eyes? Ben Haring: Tombs, Papyri and Ostraca – historical developments in the royal necropolis administration of the New Kingdom. Jac Janssen & Rosalind Janssen: Before and After the Strikes at Deir el-Medina. Tickets c.£25 - £20. Contact Society for details. Note: the study day will be followed by three presentations given by EES project directors on the new work of the ‘Amelia Edwards Group Projects’.

Lectures by prominent Egyptologists, and site visits. For prices and details contact Margaret Davies, Legend Conferences Administrator, 11 Arun Prospect, Station Road, Pullborough, West Sussex, RH20 1AL.

July and August 2008

BLOOMSBURY SUMMER SCHOOL

A series of short courses on a wide variety of topics. Enquiries to: The Director, Bloomsbury Summer School, Department of History, University College London, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT. Tel 020 7679 3622, email: bloomsbury  @  egyptology-uk.com   www.egyptology-uk.com/bloomsbury

1st - 3rd September 2008

THE PHARMACY AND MEDICINE IN ANCIENT EGYPT CONFERENCE – UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

Hosted jointly by the KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology at the University of Manchester and the National Research Centre in Cairo. The first international conference that aims to bring together the two elements of ancient Egyptian healthcare practices: phamacy and medicine. Speakers will include Dr Wafaa El-Saddiq, Director of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.

Details from: www.manchester.ac.uk/egyptology/newsandevents

6th-7th September 2008

AWT CONFERENCE – READING UNIVERSITY

Speakers include Barry Kemp, Ted Brock and Lyla Pinch-Brock, Ayman Wahby Taher, Lucia Gahlin, Romuald Schild, Chris Naunton and TV presenters Bettany Hughes and Terry Jones.

Speakers include Barry Kemp, Ted Brock and Lyla Pinch-Brock, Ayman Wahby Taher and Terry Jones.

Details from: www.ancient.co.uk

18th - 25th March 2009

LEGEND CONFERENCE, LUXOR: FROM NARMER TO NECTANEBO: KINGSHIP IN UPPER EGYPT

Lectures by prominent Egyptologists, and site visits. For prices and details contact Margaret Davies, Legend Conferences Administrator, 11 Arun Prospect, Station Road, Pullborough, West Sussex, RH20 1AL.

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