Our speaker next Monday (10th April) is Rosalind Janssen, Lecturer in Education at UCL Institute of Education and previously curator at the Petrie Museum. She will be presenting our annual Bob Partridge Egyptology Lecture with a look at the clothing of Tutankhamun.

Tutankhamun was a decidedly peculiar shape if his surviving garments are anything to go by. Why did he have such vast amounts of underwear in his tomb, and what did he wear on his feet? We look at these and other questions in relation to his surviving clothing, linking his world to that of other children in Ancient Egypt.

Please join us! 7pm for 7:45pm start. All welcome.

Next Monday join us for a dig in the Delta! Nicky Nielson will be revealing discoveries by the University of Liverpool excavations of the “City of the Snake Goddess” at Tell Nabasha/Imet. That’s Monday 13th March.  AND don’t forget to book your place for our fantastic study day on Saturday 25th March at the Longfield Suite, Prestwich. Campbell Price and Roger Forshaw will bring alive the exciting Late Period – Egypt’s “Silver Age”! For details of these and the rest of our 2017 season click here.

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

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!!!

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!

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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

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!

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!!!

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.