We have a wonderful programme of speakers to finish off our 2017 season and now here’s what’s coming from September 2017! Explore the Meidum Pyramid with Colin Reader and travel around Africa by Trireme with Kevin Harrison! Find out about Rameses II in Legend with Alan Lloyd, while Hilary Forrest tells us about the collectors and adventurers who stocked our museums. Plus not one but TWO study days – Delta excavations in March (2018) and in November a special study day at the Manchester Museum to honour the late Victor Blunden. Find our more here
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MAY LECTURE!
Please note that our May lecture with Peter Robinson will be on Monday 8th May – the second Monday in the month – and not on 15th as previously published here! Apologies from the webmaster elf for this error!!!
MAES Annual Study Day: The Silver Age
Saturday 25th March: Longfield Suite, Prestwich
Join MAES for our annual study day – with guest speakers Roger Forshaw and Campbell Price! We’ll be exploring Egypt’s Silver Age – the Late Period (Dynasties 25 to 30)! For more details click: here
Everyone welcome!
Manchester Study Day: Saturday 11th February
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Ancient Egypt in Artefacts: Unexpected Highlights from the Manchester Museum
- Saturday 11th February, 2017
- Kanaris Lecture Theatre, the Manchester Museum, Oxford Road
Presented by Egyptology Online in association with the Manchester Museum and the KNH Centre
For further details and to book a place please click here
Girl Power: Elite Women of Ancient Egypt
MANCENT Study Day Saturday 18th February
MANCENT, the Manchester Continuing Education Network, presents a day school on Girl Power: Elite Women of Ancient Egypt
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resented by MAES Secretary Sarah Griffiths.
This study day explores the fascinating lives of Egypt’s women of power: queens and consorts, priestesses and goddesses, empresses and entrepreneurs.
Enjoying rights and freedoms unheard of in other ancient cultures, Egypt’s elite women were unique, some ruling Egypt as Pharaoh in their own right. Sarah Griffiths will examine the archaeological and textual evidence from the Early Dynastic Period through to the end of the Ptolemaic era to recreate the lives of some of the most important of Egypt’s female icons, including Merneith, Sobeknefru, Ahmose-Nefertari, Hatshepsut, Tiy, Nefertiti, Nefertari, Amenirdis I, Arsinoё II and Cleopatra VII.
Saturday 18th February, 10.30am– 4.30pm.
Cross Street Chapel, Cross Street, Manchester, M2 1NL
This Monday…Akhenaten: the Man and the Myths
Join us for the first lecture of the new year this Monday, 9th January!
The Pharaoh Akhenaten (c1352 – 1336 BC) has been described as ‘the first individual in human history’, but can we really know him as an individual? In this lecture Lucia Gahlin will explore what is known about, but also what has been projected on to, this most fascinating of historical figures. He chose to be represented in a most singular fashion. Modern explanations for this run wild. We will find that the mythologizing of Akhenaten began soon after his death and continues to the present day.
Everyone welcome!
Early Start to December Meeting!
Massimiliano Pinarello will be exploring the archaeology of ancient Egyptian writing and the role of the “scribe” on 12th December but please note we will be starting at 7:!5pm and finishing at 8:45pm to allow Max to get the last train back home! Please be early!!!
Fantastic lecture!
Elena Pischikova and her daughter Katherine gave us a stunning lecture last night – looking at their work restoring the Kushite (Twenty-fifth Dynasty) tombs in the South Asasif necropolis. If you missed it, you can find out more about their work here.
Change to our October speaker!
Sadly Carolyn Routledge is unable to join us next week as she’s still in China! So we would like to welcome Ian Trumble to speak in her place – with a look at new developments for the ancient Egyptian gallery at Bolton Museum! Monday 10th October 7:30pm at the Manchester Conference Centre / Pendulum Hotel, Sackville Street, Manchester, M1 3BB. All welcome!
Our new MAES Lecture Programme has just been published!
We kick off on Monday 12th September with Peter Brooks and his controversial theory about how hard stones were cut in ancient Egypt to create such stunning statues.
Also coming up a sneak peak at the new Bolton Museum galleries with Carolyn Routledge and Elena Pischikova celebrates with us the 10th anniversary of the South Asasif Conservation Project.
Check here for full details!
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