Campbell Price is giving our annual Bob Partridge Egyptology Lecture, in memory of our late Chairman, on Monday 12th February.

Artisans, particularly those engaged in producing sculpture, held an especially important place in Ancient Egyptian society. This lecture explores the ‘magic’ of artistic production and traces the evidence of some artisans, who often left their mark on works they created or used their access to skills and resources to make very special objects for themselves.

Campbell Price is Curator of Egypt and Sudan at Manchester Museum, one of the UK’s largest Egyptology collections. He undertook his BA, MA, and PhD in Egyptology at the University of Liverpool, where he is now an Honorary Research Fellow. He has published widely on ancient Egyptian material culture, most recently Pocket Museum: Ancient Egypt (Thames and Hudson, 2018). Campbell has lectured widely throughout the UK, and internationally.

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

Cat in the Marshes, Tomb of Nebamun

Our first 2018 MAES meeting is next Monday, 8^th January. We welcome back Dylan Bickerstaffe who will be presenting his lecture ” Separated at Birth? Egypt, Crete and the Levant”.                              

Why were bulls, vultures, and snakes such prominent symbols in the cultures of ancient Egypt and Minoan Crete? The Egyptian king was a ‘mighty bull’, and there were cults in Egypt for the Apis, Buchis, and Mnevis bull. In Minoan Crete votive bull figurines were placed in shrines; numerous images depicted scenes of bull leaping; and several myths and legends focused on bulls – not least the mighty man-bull, or Minotaur. But this theme may also be found in extremely ancient cultures in the Levant, Mesopotamia, and Anatolia – and here, too, were the common symbols of vultures, and snakes. Images of totemic animals are just one of several artistic themes which we will see paralleled in these ancient cultures.

Come and join us Monday from 7:30pm at the Manchester Conference Centre. Visitors welcome!

The University of Manchester’s Egyptology Online are now offering three courses in hieroglyphs (for beginners, intermediate and advanced students) which are taught entirely online! See here for more details!

Did an Egyptian-led Phoenician expedition circumnavigate Africa in the late-seventh century BC? Herodotus certainly thought so! Come to our next MAES meeting and find out!

Monday 11^th December

Kevin Harrison: Around Africa by Trireme: Necho’s Phoenician Mariners … an Ancient Example of ‘Fake News’ or of Genuine ‘Daring-do?’

7:30pm visitors welcome!

For more details click here:

MAES is proud to announce we are co-hosting two major Egyptology events in 2018!

On 7th April we are holding a joint MAES / Egypt Exploration Society Study Day: “Life in the Royal Workmen’s Towns of Ancient Egypt” at the University of Manchester.

And the Fourth British Egyptology Congress (BEC) is coming to the University of Manchester 7-9th September.

Tickets for these events will be released nearer the time – please check our website for more details here:

We look forward to seeing you!!!

MAES lectures return on Monday 11th September with our former Chairman Colin Reader speaking about Meidum! You can find our more about our lectures and download a copy of the programme here:

As well as our annual study day in March 2018, we have two extra study days in November and April!

We hope to see you in September!

Our next meeting is on Monday 8th May!

(Please note due to a calendar error this has been advertised previously as 15th May).

Peter Robinson joins us to look at how the ancient Egyptians were able to map their world and, in some cases, the Afterlife they expected to go to after death, and what this shows us about how the ancient Egyptians thought about the worlds of the living and the dead.

Peter is the Treasurer of Poynton Egypt Group, and is a trustee of the Canada-based Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities. He runs the Friends of Nekhen website for the supporters of the Hierakonpolis expedition in Egypt and as an Editorial Assistant to Ancient Egypt Magazine, he produces maps for each edition.

Study Egyptology at home and gain a recognized qualification!

The University of Manchester is now accepting enrollments for their September 2017 Certificate and Diploma courses in Egyptology.

Full details:

http://www.egyptologyonline.manchester.ac.uk/

And for those of you who would like something shorter, there is a free online course beginning 17th April and running for 5 weeks.

Warfare and Weapons in Ancient Egypt is taught by Dr Nicky Nielsen and is an entirely revised version of their previous Warfare and Weapons course, incorporating new material and film clips. It will therefore be of interest both to new students and to students who have already taken this course and is ideal for those new to online Egyptology.

Full details: https://www.canvas.net/…/cour…/warfare-weapons-ancient-egypt

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.