Our next MAES meeting is on Monday 10th March – welcoming back Penny Wilson! Doors open 7:30pm (GMT) and the lecture beings at 8pm.

All welcome – free to members (who will receive an email link). Guests pay £5 via Eventbrite

The Magical-Healing statues from New Kingdom Egypt and onward contain a wealth of texts to provide the precedents for magical power that could be harnessed to heal people from illnesses and, in particular, poisonous bites and stings. This talk will look at the cycle of Isis and the Scorpions with its links to Isis as a scorpion herself, the threat to Horus the child from the venomous companions of Seth, the dangers of not recognising the gods, and how you can protect yourself from dangerous beasties.

Penny Wilson is Associate Professor of Egyptian Archaeology in the Dept. Archaeology at Durham University where she has worked for the last 20 years and before then she was Assistant Keeper in the Dept. Antiquities, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. She studied at Liverpool University, where she completed her PhD, now published as ‘A Ptolemaic Lexikon’. She is currently Director of the Delta Survey Project for the Egypt Exploration Society and field director of the Royal City of Sais Project. Her interests include religious life in Ancient Egypt, settlement archaeology and the Late Period to Late Antique Nile Delta. Her publications include field reports on the Sais excavations, and Delta survey work as well as ‘Sacred Signs’ an introduction to the role of hieroglyphs in ancient Egypt.