LIFE AND DEATH ON THE NILE THROUGH THE LENS OF THE MEMPHITE NECROPOLIS with Dr Iwona Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin 28 Oct - 3 Nov 2024 A NEW course taught in Saqqara by the Deputy Director of the Polish-Egyptian Archaeological Mission Saqqara. Details: egyptology-uk.com/bloomsbury/bss…

3400(?) year old stela showing the goddess Hathor as a cow emerging from a papyrus thicket. Dedicated by "the breast (= wet nurse) of the King's Son, Lady of the House, Nanuny(?)" - sounds intriguingly like "Nanny"... 😅 Acc. No. 4914. From Memphis.

Listen to some of my suggested answers to HistoryExtra's new '#AncientEgypt The Big Questions' podcast... Episode 1 out now! link.chtbl.com/8_n65T8V

"In a rectangular channel of space light drops in oblique layers upon rows of polished cubes sustaining gods and fragments.... Seductive goddesses, cat-faced and maiden-breasted sit eternally stroking smoothed knees" Jessica Dismorr, 'London Notes', Blast 2, 1915, p. 66. 🩶 🩶

I had an absolutely fabulous time chatting to Dr Campbell Price last month about the wondrous world of ancient Egypt. If you've ever wondered about the curious curing powers of crocodile dung or who the world's first Egyptologist was, be sure to check it out on the HistoryExtra podcast!

FREE online conference! Climate Change and Heritage Adaptation | 18-19th September ees.ac.uk/resource/clima…

Challenging one rather sentimental stereotype about #AncientEgypt... 🙀

Hmm... quite possibly the dodgiest-looking "proof checking system" I've ever encountered - is anyone familiar with this?

Today seems as good a day as any to remind #Oasis fans that the cover of 'Definitely Maybe' was inspired by an encounter with Manchester Museum's Egyptology galleries in the 1990s... theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

Wrangling a herd of divine bulls today... The divinised deceased being ridden to the tomb by the sacred Apis bull - scenes on the footboards of a selection of Late Period coffins Manchester Museum

Episode 2 out now!

#Throwback to noticing this superb 4450 year old ibis-bird-on-divine-standard representing the 'Feast of Thoth' from a list of festivals specified on the architrave of the tomb of a 5th Dynasty priest called Nykaiankh at Giza. #Egypt #Egyptology #hieroglyphs #Thoth #ibis #Giza

Today's superb keynote lecture from Dr Ahmed Altaher CREgyptology University of Liverpool on graffiti at Karnak - including the practice of inserting older bits of masonry depicted (and this saturated with the numinous quality of) divinities. Really fascinating stuff! 👀

Final places available in person or online for Saturday!

On the podcast | Listen to the latest episode of our Ancient Egypt series with Dr Campbell Price (Dr Campbell Price): spr.ly/6018molUK

BARGAIN! 🤩👇

#Throwback to welcoming PhD researcher Alessio Delli Castelli to Manchester Museum in July to photograph this important limestone relief from Coptos depicting perhaps the longest-reigning monarch in history: King Pepi II Neferkare (c. 2278-2184 BCE).

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