QUEENS OF THE NEW KINGDOM:
Powerful Royal Women of the 17th to 20th Dynasties

A study day in memory of Muriel O’Shea

Join us on Saturday 21st March for an exciting study day with Dylan Bickerstaffe, Kenneth Griffen & Sarah Griffiths, focussing on the powerful royal women of the New Kingdom, including Ahmose Nefertari, Hatshepsut, Neferure, Nefertiti, Nefertari and the Harem Conspiracy against Ramesses III.

The study day will take place at the Longfield Suite, Prestwich M25 1AY. Tickets cost £40 for MAES members, £45 for non-members, and £35 for students.

Click here to download the booking form.

This Monday – we welcome Janet McWilliam who will be discussing Ramesses III and the Battle of the Delta!

Towards the end of the late Bronze Age Ramesses was faced with a mass migration of people from the northern and western Mediterranean. Inscriptions at his mortuary temple at Medinet Habu tell the tale of one of these battles. In this talk I look at the reasons behind the migration and how the battle played out.

7:30pm Pendulum Hotel / Manchester Conference Centre, Sackville Street, Manchester, M1 3BB.

Our next meeting will be on Monday 10th February, when our very own Professor Rosalie David will talk to us about the latest discoveries that have been made about Takabuti, the famous mummy at the Belfast Museum, in what’s sure to be an interesting lecture.

Rosalie David OBE has achieved world renown for her pioneering work in investigating mummies using non-destructive techniques and became Director of the KNH Centre for Biological and Forensic Studies in Egyptology at The University of Manchester. Her research work into the Schistosomiasis disease has been recognised with a prestigious award from the Anglo-French Medical Society and she was awarded an OBE in recognition of her services in Egyptology.

QUEENS OF THE NEW KINGDOM:
Powerful Royal Women of the 17th to 20th Dynasties

A study day in memory of Muriel O’Shea

Join us on Saturday 21st March for an exciting study day with Dylan Bickerstaffe, Kenneth Griffen & Sarah Griffiths, focussing on the powerful royal women of the New Kingdom, including Ahmose Nefertari, Hatshepsut, Neferure, Nefertiti, Nefertari and the Harem Conspiracy against Ramesses III.

The study day will take place at the Longfield Suite, Prestwich M25 1AY. Tickets cost £40 for MAES members, £45 for non-members, and £35 for students.

Click here to download the booking form.

Our next meeting will be on Monday 13th January, when Dr Chris Naunton will talk to us about the lost tombs of Egypt.

Where are the tombs of Imhotep, Nefertiti, Alexander the Great and Cleopatra? All were buried in Egypt but despite the best efforts of some of the greats in archaeology, none of them have been found. But there are clues and in some cases archaeologists are actively searching for them. This talk explores what we know, and asks what the chances are of finding any of those missing tombs.

Dr Chris Naunton is an Egyptologist, writer and broadcaster. He has degrees from the universities of Birmingham and Swansea, has worked in the field in Abydos and Thebes, was Director of the EES from 2012-16 and President of the International Association of Egyptologists. He has appeared in several TV documentaries and his first book, “Searching for the Lost Tombs of Egypt” was published in 2018. His second work, “Egyptologists’ Notebooks” will be out later in 2020.

Chris will be bringing copies of his book to sign and sell so save up your Xmas prezzie money!

Our next meeting is on Mon 9th December and it’s our annual Bob Partridge Egyptology Lecture.

Michael Tunnicliffe will be giving a lecture on The Amarna Letters – The Canaan Corrrespondence – a story of deception, back stabbing and intrigue!

All welcome 7pm doors open. Lecture 7:45 to 9pm. Pendulum Hotel / Manchester Conference Centre, Sackville Street, Manchester, M1 3BB.

Join us on Monday 11th November when Roger Forshaw will give us what should be a fascinating lecture:  “The City of Naukratis during the Saite Period: The Shanghai of Ancient Egypt”.

Pendulum Hotel / Manchester Conference Centre, Sackville Street, Manchester, M1 3BB

From 7pm – everyone welcome!

Welcome to the start of the MAES new season! We kick off on Monday 9th September with a fantastic lecture by our Chair Peter Phillips. If you can’t tell your closed bud lotus from an open palmiform capital fear not! Peter will reveal all!

Pendulum Hotel / Manchester Conference Centre, Sackville Street, Manchester, M1 3BB

From 7pm – everyone welcome!

Akhenaten – photo RBP

Saturday 16th- Sunday 17th November 2019

Tutor Michael Tunnicliffe presents a study of the Amarna period of Akhenaten and Nefertiti including study of the Amarna Letters

Venue: Palace Hotel Buxton  (full board included in price).

Click here for further details or call 01625 523 923

Mummy found recently at Dashur. Image: MSA

Mummies, ancient jewellery, New Kingdom queens, battles in the Delta, sex and death in Roman Egypt….it’s all coming in the new season of the Manchester Ancient Egypt Society!

Check out and download the new programme on our website here

Join us on Monday 9th September at the Manchester Conference Centre / Pendulum Hotel on Sackville Street, Manchester M1 3BB.