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AUGUST 2010

1st Essex Egyptology Group.

Members’ Free Mike Night.

2nd-6th University of Liverpool.

ANCIENT WORLDS SUMMER SCHOOL: Beginners’ Hieroglyphs. See Major Events below for details.

4th Failsworth Historical Society, Manchester.

Victor Blunden: Hatshepsut – Beloved Queen or Wicked Stepmother? Contact John Crompton. Tel: 0161 684 3595

4th Staffordshire Egyptology Society.

Claire Malleson: Life Within Walls – The Workers’ Villages of Ancient Egypt.

9th Wirral Ancient Egypt Society.

April Pudsey: Romans in Egypt.

14th Society for the Study of Ancient Egypt – Chesterfield Venue.

Carol Andrews: Pets or Power – Animals in Ancient Egypt.

September 2010

1st Staffordshire Egyptology Society.

Carol Andrews: Pets or Power – Animals in Ancient Egypt.

1st Wirral Ancient Egypt Society.

Robert Connelly: The Mummies in the Tomb of Tutankhamun.

4th Sussex Egyptology Society – Worthing Venue.

Dylan Bickerstaffe: Hidden Treasures of Ancient Egypt – a visual adventure.

4th Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society.

AGM, followed by the Phillip Wickens Memorial Lecture. Alan Lloyd: Ancient Egyptian Ships.

4th Wessex Ancient Egypt Society.

Chris Naunton: The EES and the History of Egyptology – When Archaeologists Became Archaeology.

5th Essex Egyptology Group.

Victor Blunden: Queen Hatshepsut – Beloved Queen or Wicked Stepmother?

6th Tameside Egypt Group.

John Johnson: Lecture TBA.

10th RAMASES.

AGM.

13th Manchester Ancient Egypt Society.

Bob Partridge: From a Local Shrine to a Great Temple – the Complex of Amun at Karnak.

17th Poynton Egypt Group.

Carol Andrews: Iconography of Eroticism.

18th Southampton Ancient Egypt Society.

Hilary Wilson: The Battle of Kadesh and what happened next ... .

23rd Carlisle & District Egyptology Society.

Victor Blunden: Tombs of the Nobles at Luxor.

24th Friends of the Petrie Museum.

Aidan Dodson: Poisoned Legacy – the Fall of the Nineteenth Dynasty.

25th Leicestershire Ancient Egypt Society.

Andrew Collins and Nigel Skinner- Simpson: Subterranean Giza – The rediscovery of the cave system found by Henry Salt and Giovanni Caviglia in 1817.

25th Sussex Egyptology Society – Horsham Venue.

Barbara Tratsaert: Desert Riches – Roman mining in Egypt’s Wadi Bakariya.

27th Northampton Ancient Egyptian Historical Society.

Rosalind Janssen: A ‘Golden Boy’? – John Pendlebury at Amarna.

29th Friends of the Egypt Centre – Swansea.

6.30 pm AGM followed by (7.00pm): John J. Johnston: Beyond Isis and Osiris – alternative sexualities in ancient Egypt.

30th Horus Egyptology Society.

Victor Blunden: Lecture TBA.

October 2010

2nd Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology.

11.30am - 1.30pm. Event: Grave Understanding – Ancient Egypt and Greece at West Norwood Cemetery. At the Cemetery. Book in advance. Contact: Debbie Challis. Email: d.challis@ucl.ac.uk Tel: 020 7679 4138.

2nd RAMASES.

STUDY DAY: The Tomb in Ancient Egypt. Speaker: Aidan Dodson.

2nd Society for the Study of Ancient Egypt – Chesterfield Venue.

DAY SCHOOL. See Major Events, opposite.

2nd Wessex Ancient Egypt Society.

Alice Stevenson: Funeral Rituals Before the Pharaohs – Predynastic Burial Practices.

3rd Essex Egyptology Group.

George Hart: Alexander the Great and the Conquest of Egypt.

4th Tameside Egypt Group.

Alan Reiblein: The Art of the Books of the Dead.

6th Staffordshire Egyptology Society.

Karen Exell: The Magician’s Tomb.

7th Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology.

5.00-8.00pm. Lates at the Petrie: Introduction to the Museum. Twenty minute introductory talks on the half hour (5.30/6.30/7.30pm).

8th Friends of the Petrie Museum.

Suzanne Lax-Bojtos: Wonderful Things! Some Aspects of Ancient Egyptian Jewellery.

8-10th Knuston Hall, Northants.

Residential Course: Peasant, Scribe & Priest – Daily Life in Ancient Egypt. Tutor: Victor Blunden. Contact Knuston Hall for details: www.knustonhall.org.uk E-mail: enquiries@knustonhall.org.uk Tel: 01933 312104.

9th Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society.

Karen Exell: Egypt in Africa.

11th Manchester Ancient Egypt Society.

Elena Pischikova: The Excavation of the Tomb of Karakhamun at Thebes.

11th Wirral Ancient Egypt Society.

Paul Nicholson: Glass & Faience at Amarna.

12th Egypt Society of Bristol.

Reg Clark: Kheker Friezes – what’s the point?

13th Friends of the Egypt Centre – Swansea.

Dylan Bickerstaffe:The Royal Mummies of Thebes – Clues to identity.

14th Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology.

6.00-7.30pm. Lates at the Petrie: Artist Sherry Doyal discusses Leaves of Grass. Book in advance. Contact: Debbie Challis. Email: d.challis@ucl.ac.uk Tel: 020 7679 4138.

15th Poynton Egypt Group.

Victor Blunden: The Houseof the Ka – Mastaba Tomb Decoration.

16th Leicestershire Ancient Egypt Society.

Speaker: Barry Kemp. Lecture TBA.

16th North East Ancient Egypt Society.

Jo Kyffin: Crocodile Mundi – Magical Texts in Ancient Egypt.

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

Paul Nicholson: New Work on the Sacred Animal Catacombs at Saqqara.

16th Southampton Ancient Egypt Society.

Rosalind Janssen: A Golden Boy – John Pendlebury at Amarna.

20th The Ankh – South East Kent Egyptology Society.

Roger Sharp: Aswan, Philae, & Abu Simbel.

23rd The Egypt Exploration Society.

E.E.S. NORTH LAUNCH EVENT. See Major Events for details.

28th Carlisle & District Egyptology Society.

Diana Brown: Art & Ideology in the Tomb of Nefertari.

28th Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology.

6-8pm. Horror at the Museum: The Mummy. Screening begins at 6.30 pm. John J. Johnston introduces the classic 1932 mummy film starring Boris Karloff. Book in advance. Contact: Debbie Challis. Email: d.challis@ucl.ac.uk Tel: 020 7679 4138.

30th Sussex Egyptology Society – Brighton Venue.

Paul Nicholson: Glass and Faience-making at Tell el-Amarna.

18th June 2010 - 18th Jan. 2012, THE BARBER INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS, UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM SACRED & PROFANE.

Treasure of Ancient Egypt from the Myers Collection, Eton College and the University of Birmingham. www.barber.org.uk

29th June - 4th Sept. 2010, THE PETRIE MUSEUM, UCL LONDON. MAKES ME THINK OF EGYPT: BRITISH EGYPTIAN SOCIETY EXHIBITION

The winners and finalists of the recent photographic exhibition organised by the B.E.S., the B.M. and Amateur Photographic magazine.

21st Sept. - 2nd Oct. 2010 , THE PETRIE MUSEUM. SOUL HOUSES

Artist Sara Bevan presents digital collages reflecting on the unique space and atmosphere of the Petrie Museum of Archaeology.

5th - 30th Oct. 2010 THE PETRIE MUSEUM. LEAVES OF GRASS

An exhibition by Sherry Doyal reflecting on the ephemera of burial in Ancient Egypt. Proceeds to go to the National Cancer Institute Cairo: http://www.nci.edu.eg/

4th Nov. 2010 - 6th Mar. 2011, THE BRITISH MUSEUM. “JOURNEY THROUGH THE AFTERLIFE”: THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD www.britishmuseum.org

Featuring papyri, ushabtis, amulets and coffins. Supported by BP.

21st - 22nd August 2010,

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON:

ANCIENT WORLD CONFERENCE, 2010

Jointly hosted by Ancient World Tours and The Friends of the Petrie Museum. 10 speakers, including: Dr. Mansour Boraik from the Egyptian S.C.A. on New Discoveries; Sally-Ann Ashton on Cleopatra in Egypt; Jaromir Malek on the Archive of the Griffith Institute in Oxford; and Campbell Price on the Saqqara Geophysical Survey Project. Contact: emailconference @ ancient.co.uk or tel. 0207 917 9494 For details see: www.ancient.co.uk

11th - 12th September 2010,

THE BRITISH MUSEUM:

THE THIRD BRITISH EGYPTOLOGY CONGRESS (BEC3)

Jointly hosted by the Egypt Exploration Society, The Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan, British Museum and University College London. Keynote lecture by Mark Lehner. Contact details Email: bec3 @ ees.ac.uk, Tel: (+44).20 7242 1880.

2nd October 2010

CHESTERFIELD: DAY SCHOOL

QUEST FOR ETERNITY

Organised by the Society for the Study of Ancient Egypt. The art of ancient Egypt through the eyes of four leading experts: Alan Lloyd, George Hart, Barry Kemp and Robert Morkot. For more information, contact the Society or Keith Lucas, tel. 0114 2581856.

23rd Oct. 2010, MANCHESTER CONFERENCE CENTRE/DAYS INN HOTEL, MANCHESTER E.E.S. NORTH LAUNCH EVENT LANDSCAPE DEVELOPMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE IN ANCIENT EGYPT: THE DELTA AND THE VALLEY

Speakers: Penny Wilson, Angus Graham, David Jeffreys and Judith Bunbury. Followed by a Wine Reception. For more information visit http://www.ees.ac.uk/events/index/45.html or email: contact @ ees.ac.uk

27th Nov. 2010, UNIVERSITY OF READING. THAMES VALLEY ANCIENT EGYPT SOCIETY – STUDY DAY CONSERVATION & TECHNOLOGY. With Richard Jaeschke.

27th Nov. 2010, NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY. NORTH-EAST ANCIENT EGYPT SOCIETY – STUDY DAY ANCIENT EGYPT IN THE NORTH-EAST

Speakers: Sally-Ann Ashton, John Ruffle, Andrew Parkin and Gillian Scott.

23rd - 26th Mar. 2011, DURHAM UNIVERSITY. CURRENT RESEARCH IN EGYPTOLOGY (CRE) CONFERENCE 2011

For further information, see Facebook or the web-site: www.current-research-egyptology.org.uk

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