Our next lecture will be on Monday 14th June 2021. Entitled ‘Wonderful Things’, it explores Fifty Years of the Wellcome Collection in Swansea and will be presented by Dr. Ken Griffin. This talk will present the history of the collection, including many of the highlights. It will also feature a virtual tour of the Egypt Centre.
Please note this lecture starts at 7:30pm, not at 8pm. Sign in from 7:15 onwards. Members free, £5 for guests via Eventbrite. http://bit.ly/ManchesterAESocZoom
Fancy a tour of the Egypt Centre Swansea’s stores without leaving your lounge?
Join MAES for our June lecture on Monday 14th!Ken Griffin will be talking about “Wonderful Things: Fifty Years of the Wellcome Collection in Swansea” and giving us an online tour of the collection by the wonders of mobile phone and zoom!
With almost 6,000 objects, the Egypt Centre (Swansea University) contains the seventh largest collection of Egyptian antiquities in the UK. The majority of these objects originate from the collection of Sir Henry Wellcome, which was dispersed by the Wellcome Trustees in 1971. This talk will present the history of the collection, including many of the highlights. It will also feature a virtual tour of the Egypt Centre.
Dr Ken Griffin is the Collections Access Manager at the Egypt Centre, Swansea. He is a former lecturer in Egyptology at Swansea University. His PhD research on the rekhyt-people has recently been published by Golden House Publications. Ken has excavated extensively in Egypt and Sudan over the last decade, including at Abydos and the Valley of the Kings.
Free to MAES members – link will be emailed round. Guests welcome – you can book (£5) via Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maes-june-online-meeting-ken-griffin-swansea-egypt-collection-tickets-151462762199?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch
How did the Kushite pharaohs of Egypt take on the Assyrian empire? What impact did the Babylonians have on Israel and Judah? How was the powerful Persian empire stopped in its tracks?
This is the story of invasion and conquest, rebellion and survival in Egypt and the Near East, leading to the end of the native Egyptian pharaohs, the sacking of Thebes, the destruction of Jerusalem and the loss of Israel’s national independence.
Join us this Saturday (22nd May) 9:30am to 4:30pm to discover the changes brought about over this tumultuous period of 400 years!
A Study Day taught by Michael Tunnicliffe & Sarah Griffiths in association with the Manchester Ancient Egypt Society. All welcome. MAES members £20; guests £30
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Manchester Ancient Egypt Society monthly lecture
A joint lecture with KNH Centre
José-Ramón Pérez-Accino: A Place Badly Concealed. Newest Research on the Royal Cache Wadi, Luxor.
After the discovery of the royal mummies in 1881 and the Lansing excavation campaign in 1920, the Royal Cachette Wadi has traditionally been considered an archaeologically empty site. Since 2017 the C2 Project has undertaken two field campaigns at the site. The results permit to dispute the validity of the previous definition of the valley as a concealed and hidden location. In both campaigns, structures not previously described have been identified, such an area of worship with the presence of a monumental image on the mountain, offering tables and prayers and semi-caverns in the mountain with evidence of human action.
José is Co-Director at C2 Project – the Royal Cache Wadi Survey, Professor of Ancient History and Egyptology at the Complutense University of Madrid and Director / President of the Complutensian Egyptology Society, an academic society aimed at promoting Egyptological studies.
Free to MAES members; guests welcome £5 via Eventbrite: http://bit.ly/MAESZoomLectures
MAES extra April online meeting. Monday 26th April 7:30pm. Everyone welcome to attend!
Maria Nilsson & John Ward: Recent Discoveries at Gebel el-Silsila – New Kingdom material
Located some 60 km south of the grand Edfu Temple, and 65 km north of the stunning golden landscape of modern day Aswan, Gebel el-Silsila – “Kheny/Khenu” to the ancients – played an important role within the overall development of Dynastic Egypt. While the site was a vital strategic trading location, marking the boundary between Egypt and her southern neighbour Nubia, one of Egypt’s “nine bows” (chief enemies), it was first and foremost the source of a bountiful supply of prime Nubian sandstone for the building of pharaonic monuments throughout Egypt, particularly during the New Kingdom. In this lecture, Maria and John will reveal their latest New Kingdom discoveries, exploring the Temple of Sobek, the necropolis, Tutankhamun’s workers village and new finds from the quarries of Amenhotep and Ahkenaten.
Dr Maria Nilsson and John Ward are Directors of the Gebel el-Silsila Project , and are based at Lund University, Sweden, where Maria is currently Marie Curie Researcher. They have appeared in numerous television documentaries and have written a series of articles about their work at the site for Ancient Egypt Magazine.
Free to members – link will be emailed to you. Guests welcome £5 via Eventbrite here:
Egypt & Israel and the Rise of the Empires
The rise and fall of the Assyrians, Babylonians and Persians
An Online Study Day with Sarah Griffiths and Michael Tunnicliffe
In association with the Manchester Ancient Egypt Society
The Late Period (c. 747 – 332 BC) – Egypt’s Silver Age, but great changes were taking place all over the Near East, with the rise and fall of great empires such as Assyria, Babylonia and Persia. The rise of these expansionist empires would also have important consequences in the land of Israel. This is the story invasion and conquest, rebellion and survival over 400 tumultuous years.
Saturday 22nd May 2021 9.30am– 4.30pm Via Zoom MAES members £20; Guests £30
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Our next meeting – open to all! This Monday online from 7:30pm. A fascinating lecture with a saucy title!
Our next Zoom meeting is on Monday 8th February and we welcome back the charismatic Glenn Godenho!
Glenn Godenho: What’s in a Name? Patterns of People at the End of the Old Kingdom.
Djau, Ibi, Khu, Kheti – all names that tend to recur in key locations at the end of the Old Kingdom. Of course, same and similar names do not at all imply a collective of blood-relatives running the administrative machine at provincial centres. However, a closer look at the extant evidence starts to show patterns of provincial rulership that may help us to better understand the balance of power as the Old Kingdom draws to a close.
Dr Glenn Godenho began Egyptological training at Birkbeck College, London, and then studied for BA, MA and PhD at the University of Liverpool, where he now works as a Senior Lecturer in Egyptology and Academic Director of the Institution’s Continuing Education Department. He is part of a Liverpool-Bonn First Intermediate Period research group that aims to bring a number of related projects together from both institutions.
Free to members; £5 guests via Eventbrite here:
Tickets are now available for the MAES March study day on Queens of the New Kingdom! An online study day – everyone welcome. Tickets £30 for guests. MAES Members will receive a £10 discount code. We look forward to seeing you then! Furthe details and to book click here:
Monday 11th January 2021 Zoom Lecture