"Ancient Egyptian Justice" Alexandre Loktionov (EEG Meeting Talk)
At the beginning of September Alexandre Loktionov visited the Essex Egyptology Group to talk to us about his work on the Ancient Egyptian justice system. In his introductory remarks he was keen to...
View Article"Delta Myths and Legends" Penny Wilson (EEG Meeting Talk)
At the beginning of November Penny Wilson visited the Essex Egyptology Group to talk to us about myths & legends of the Delta region of Egypt. Wilson is involved in archaeological work in the...
View Article"Illuminating the Path of Darkness: Artificial Light in Ancient Egyptian...
In December Meghan Strong, a PhD student (about to submit her thesis!) at Cambridge, came to talk to us at the Essex Egyptology Group about the use of artificial light in Ancient Egyptian ritual. Light...
View Article"Saite Tombs at Saqqara" Ramadan Hussein (EEG Meeting Talk)
At the beginning of February Ramadan Hussein came to talk to us at the Essex Egyptology Group about the work he is doing at Saqqara. He works for Tübingen University, and is leading a joint...
View Article"Religion in the Ancient World" Glanville Study Day & Lecture 2018
This year's Glanville Lecture in Cambridge was given by Jan Assmann who is an expert on the religion of Ancient Egypt, and to go along with the lecture there was a study day which had 6 speakers...
View Article"Deir el-Medina: A Never Ending Story" Cédric Gobeil (EEG Study Day, April 2018)
In April the Essex Egyptology Group held its annual study day. This year the subject was the workmen's village at Deir el-Medina with four talks given by Cédric Gobeil who was director of the French...
View Article"The Theban Tomb 250: Helping out Women's Studies" Cédric Gobeil (EEG Study...
In his second talk of the Essex Egyptology Group study day Cédric Gobeil told us about his own personal work (as opposed to the work he oversaw as director). The original publications of the tombs at...
View Article"'Wonderful Things': Highlights from the Past Seasons" Cédric Gobeil (EEG...
In the third talk at the Essex Egyptology Group study day Cédric Gobeil broadened his focus to tell us about the work carried out by the whole team over the last 7 years - his time as director. His...
View Article"Of Mummies and Men: The Discovery of a Female Tattooed Mummy" Cédric Gobeil...
In the last talk of the Essex Egyptology Group study day Cédric Gobeil told us about an exciting discovery in the 2014/15 season of a female mummy with several tattoos. He began by giving us some...
View Article"Kings from Kush: Egypt's 25th Dynasty" Robert Morkot (EEG Meeting Talk)
In May Robert Morkot came to the Essex Egyptology Group to talk to us about the 25th Dynasty - kings from Kush. Chronologically the 25th Dynasty is in the Late Period at the end of the Third...
View Article"Tending to the Dead: Rites, Texts and an Embalming Workshop at Saqqara (Part...
This is the second half of Ramadan Hussein's talk that he gave to us at the Essex Egyptology Group in February - the first part is here.
View Article"A Middle Kingdom Mortuary Ritual Reflected in Writing: A Case Study from...
In July Ilona Regulski visited us at the Essex Egyptology Group to talk about her work on some Middle Kingdom texts written on papyrus fragments from Asyut. She is now working at the British Museum as...
View Article"Decrees, Papyri and Biographies in the Age of the Pyramids" Nigel Strudwick...
At the beginning of March Nigel Strudwick returned to the Essex Egyptology Group to tell us about his work on Old Kingdom texts. He did his PhD on administration in the Old Kingdom, so he told us that...
View Article"Sethy I - King of Egypt" Aidan Dodson
During this time of COVID-19 in person meetings of the Essex Egyptology Group are, of course, impossible. A couple of meetings were cancelled outright, but technology has come to the rescue and Aidan...
View Article"Pyramids and Elephants: the Kingdom of Meroë" Robert Morkot
At the beginning of July Robert Morkot gave a talk to the Essex Egyptology Group (and guests) via Zoom. He'd previously visited us to talk about the 25th Dynasty of Egypt who were from Kush, and this...
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