EGYPTIAN
ARCHAEOLOGY
Notice Board Egypt Exploration Society Events London
Manchester
Cairo
Saturday 11 June, 2005. EES Study Day on the topic of what we can learn of life in ancient Egypt from written sources, in the Brunei Gallery Theatre at the School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh St, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG. Speakers will include Morris Bierbrier and John Tait. Full details and booking form will be in the Spring EES mailing.
Manchester lectures are held in Lecture Theatre 1, Stopford Building (1st floor), University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester at 7.00 pm. Enquiries: Rosalie David, KNH Centre of Biomedical Egyptology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT. Phone: + 44 (0)161 275 2647. E-mail: rosalie.david@man.ac.uk
EES lectures are held in the auditorium of the British Council at 7.00 pm. Enquiries: Rawya Ismail, EES Cairo Office, c/o British Council, 192 Sharia el-Nil, Agouza, Cairo. Phone: +20 (0)2 3001886. E-mail:
Saturday 13 November, 2005. EES Study Day on rescue archaeology and conservation in Nubia and Sudan, in the Brunei Gallery Theatre at SOAS. Speakers will include Pamela Rose, Derek Welsby, David Singleton and Eric Miller. Details in the Summer EES mailing Saturday 3 December, 2005. The EES Annual General Meeting, lecture (Jaromir Malek, Tutankhamun for all: Howard Carter’s Excavation Records in the Griffith Institute, Oxford) and reception in the afternoon/early evening in the Khalili Theatre, Main Building, SOAS. Details in the Autumn EES mailing.
ees.cairo@britishcouncil.org.eg
LECTURES
Tuesday 24 May, 2005. Stephen Quirke, In the Name of the King: the history and interpretation of the five titles and names of Pharaoh.
The British Council auditorium is currently closed during building works. EES lectures will start again in August 2005.
Tuesday 28 June, 2005. Jiro Kondo, Recent activities in Egypt by the Institute of Egyptology, Waseda University.
SITE VISITS
Please contact Rosalie for details of Northern Branch lectures later in 2005.
Saturday 9 April 2005. A visit to the EES/University of Durham excavations at Sais (Sa el-Hagar). Saturday 7 May 2005 (provisional date). A visit to sites in the Mansura region, including Behbeit el-Hagar.
Bolton The 2006 EES lecture in Bolton has not yet been arranged. Details will be included in a future mailing to EES members.
Please contact Rawya for details of lectures and site visits later in 2005.
The British Egyptology Congress, Cambridge 2005 24-25 September, 2005. The EES and the University of Cambridge will host a conference at the Mill Lane Lecture Theatre, Cambridge, and at The Fitzwilliam Museum. The conference will include the 2005 Stephen Glanville Memorial Lecture, to be given by Vivian Davies on the evening of 24 September, followed by a reception in the newly-refurbished Egyptian galleries at the Fitzwilliam Museum. Abstracts of papers should be sent by 1 April to: fitzmuseum-egypt@lists.cam.ac.uk Full details can be found at: www.ees.ac.uk/ membership/conference.htm and also at www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/projects/ae/congress/congress_index.html
NON-EES LECTURES AND OTHER EVENTS Lectures on ancient and modern Egypt, and other cultural events, are held at the Education and Cultural Bureau, Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt, 4 Chesterfield Gardens, London W1Y 8BR at 6.30 pm. Phone: +44 (0)20 7491 7720. E-mail (NB: new address): egypt.culture@btconnect.com 12 March - 30 October, 2005. Sudan: Ancient Treasures. A loan exhibition from the National Museum, Khartoum, Sudan, at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham (www.bowesmuseum.org.uk). To 27 March, 2005. Mummy: The Inside Story. Exhibition at the British Museum, London. To 10 April, 2005. Pharaohs. Exhibition (most pieces loaned by the Egyptian Museum, Cairo) at the Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris.
Saturday 7 May 2005. Bloomsbury Academy Study Day. Egypt’s Western Deserts and the origins of Egyptian Civilisation in the UCL Bloomsbury Theatre, London. Speakers: Stefan Kröpelin, Heiko Riemer, Dirk Huyge and Andras Zboray. Details: Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 3622. Fax: +44 (0)20 7413 8394. (www.egyptology-uk.com/bloomsbury). Tuesday 17 May 2005. Annual colloquium of the Sudan Archaeological Research Society Recent Fieldwork in Sudan and Nubia at the British Museum, London. Details: SARS, Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan, Br itish Museum, London WC1B 3DG (www.sudanarchs.org.uk). To May/June 2005. Beasts of the Nile: animals and the ancient Egyptians. An exhibition at Warrington Museum.The exhibition then moves to Rochdale Art Gallery (18 June 18 September 2005)
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Wednesday 13 July 2005. The Annual Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture in Egyptology at the British Museum, London will be given by Edgar Pusch. 14-15 July 2005. An international colloquium on Egypt and the Hittites at the British Museum, London. Details: Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan, British Museum, London,WC1B 3DG. 13-16 July 2005. A conference: Ptolemy II Philadelphus at the University of Auckland. Details/registration: www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/ sites/index.cfm?s+m_ptolemy
9-11 September 2005. A conference: After Polotsky. New Research and Trends in Egyptian and Coptic Linguistics at the University of Bonn. Papers in German, English and French. Phone: +49 (0)228 737587. E-mail: aegyptologisches.seminar@uni-bonn.de