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: 

Happy Xmas everyone – we look forward to seeing you next year for more fantastic Egyptology lectures with the Manchester Ancient Egypt Society!

This Monday – two exciting talks from MAES Members based on their own research!

Lesley Easterman asks “Did ancient Egyptians Drink Milk?” and in a change to the previously advertised talk, Michael Tunnicliffe looks at “Roman Egypt in the Second Century”

Monday 7:30pm via Zoom.

Free to MAES members. Guests welcome to join us via Eventbrite.

From the reign of Amenhotep III to the end of the Ptolemaic Period, the Apis bull, the ‘Herald of Ptah’, was buried in a complex of vaults at Saqqara – later known as the Serapeum.

This Monday (9th November) Aidan Dodson explores the history of the Apis burials and their contents with photographs of areas not open to the public!

Everyone welcome to join us – online via Zoom. Lectures are free to MAES members; guests welcome via Eventbrite £5.

NEXT MAES ONLINE LECTURE! Monday 12th October

Rosalie David talk on Ancient Egyptian Jewellery: What Was Its Purpose?

This lecture will explore various reasons – religious, social, economic and political – why jewellery was so indispensable to the ancient Egyptians. The lecture will also look at the sources from which the Egyptians obtained the materials used in jewellery-making, and will demonstrate some of the trends that developed over the millennia.

Online lecture via Zoom Doors open 7:30pm Lecture 8 – 9pm

Free to MAES members(Link will be sent out week before)

Guests welcome to sign up via Eventbrite – tickets £5

Join us for our first online lecture via Zoom, with Campbell Price! Bookings open til 5pm tonight.

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Welcome to the new MAES season! We kick off on Monday 14th September with Dr. Campbell Price revealing Art, Sex and Death in Graeco-Roman Egypt.  More on that later!

Our lectures will be held online via Zoom until December 2020. Lectures from January onwards will either be at our venue (Pendulum Hotel) or online – tbc.

Online lectures are free to members so why not join us! Just complete the membership form here and we will look forward to “seeing” you on 14th!