In our next MAES lecture on Monday 13th February, Alan B Lloyd will be delving deep into the ancient Egyptian afterlife!

The religion of death is by far the best-known aspect of ancient Egyptian civilisation.  It has its beginnings in the Prehistoric period, and aspects of it survived well into the Roman period.  Like all religious systems it embodied two aspects: a belief system and an action system.  The belief system was the driver and was generated by two factors: the concept of the nature of the person and the concept of the nature of life after death.  This body of belief gave rise to a complex system of ritual action which was designed to ensure the continuous survival of the deceased as a fully functioning personality in the afterlife.  The lecture will explore in detail this corpus of belief and action which constituted one of the greatest achievements of Pharaonic culture.

Alan is Professor Emeritus at the Department of History and Classics, Swansea University, and President of the Egypt Exploration Society. He is an authority on the writings of Herodotus and author of “A Companion to Ancient Egypt” and “Ancient Egypt: State and Society”.

Everyone welcome. The lecture begins 8pm on Zoom – free to MAES members who will be sent a link. Guests welcome – booking via Eventbrite here (tickets £5).