🥰 Heartfelt thanks to all who came to the first of our 2 study days 'Ancient #Egypt's Art & Artists' Libs and Museums & gave such overwhelming feedback! See you again this Saturday😍 (image: Rob Haxby, taken this year as part of our annual Immortal Egypt tour for Cultural Experience)

🖌️Ancient #Egyptian paintbrush in superb condition Libs and Museums, alongside Howard Carter's huge watercolour of #Pharaoh Tuthmosis I on loan from The Egypt Exploration Society 😍See both this Saturday 20th in our lecture with optional interactive study day, last few tickets at: eventbrite.co.uk/e/boltons-egyp…

THIS SATURDAY!!! Last few tickets: eventbrite.co.uk/e/boltons-egyp…

Hany Ragy Hail Great Pharaoh! And we'll be meeting the great woman and her family again tomorrow Libs and Museums at our second study day, based around Bolton's current Hatshepsut exhibition 'In the Temple of the Female Pharaoh' with a superb loan from The Egypt Exploration Society 🥰 eventbrite.co.uk/e/boltons-egyp…

😍"Everywhere the glint of gold", not to mention 'black diamonds'.... back at Wigan Museum very soon! Details at: eventbrite.co.uk/e/mining-in-an… (image: Cairo Museum)

😮Wow! Over 24 MILLION views so far for just one of the online versions of our BBC series 'Immortal Egypt' (aka 'Story of Egypt')..... amazing! #BBC #ancientEgypt immortalegypt.co.uk/video

🥳SOLD OUT! This Saturday's talk, back in one of our favourite venues, the library above #Wigan Museum. Designed by Alfred Waterhouse in 1877, in which George #Orwell researched his 'Road to Wigan Pier' in 1936 & home to an ancient #Egyptian gold face immortalegypt.co.uk/post/a-golden-…

We've launched a podcast: #AwayWithThePharaohs! Listen now for an introduction to The Egypt Exploration Society and the #podcast itself. Make sure you follow to never miss our monthly episodes (starting tomorrow), bringing Egypt to life in ways you’ve never heard before! #InternationalPodcastDay

Ancient Egyptian Humour: When #Cats Starred in the First Memes, 3,000 Years Before the Internet 😸 ▫ Ever seen an ancient meme? This limestone sketch from Deir el-Medina might just be one! Drawn over 3,000 years ago (c. 1295–1069 B.C.) by an artisan of the royal tomb-builders’

😍Back on PBS America all day today (UK Channel 84) with our BBC doc 'Egypt's Lost Queens' pbsamerica.co.uk/schedule/ and also earlier this year in Cairo Museum with the mighty Hatshepsut and Cultural Experience (Image: R.Haxby)

🥳Now officially open - the tomb that literally brought me to tears! 52 minutes into facebook.com/watch/?v=63736… Discovered over 200 years ago & under conservation for over 20, the incomparable tomb of #Egypt's greatest pharaoh Amenhotep III... instagram.com/p/DPZJV5ljB_V/… (image: Lion)

Such an honour to deliver yesterday's keynote speech for the Council for British Archaeology's conference 'The Future Researching the Past' on the subject of 'Ancient Egypt in Yorkshire' (what else....!) Thanks so much guys! 😊

🚨 Lunchtime Talk 🚨 Hieroglyphs Series: Part 4 Tomorrow our Curator, Ian Trumble, continues to teach us how to read this object in the Bolton’s Egypt gallery It’s FREE, and yes, you can bring your lunch!! 🥪 🥙 📅 Tuesday 21st October ⏰ 1pm 🗺️ Basement Lecture Theatre

Libs and Museums Fab! #Hieroglyphs 런치타임 / LUNCHTIME 🥰

❤️Last night in the Petrie Museum, the launch of 39BC described as "a captivating conversation between 39BC founder Sharmadean Reid & esteemed Egyptologist Professor Joann Fletcher.... an animated crash course in the life & legend of Cleopatra VII" at: 39-bc.com/letters/39-bc-…

❤️Such an amazing launch night at the Petrie Museum for 39 BC created by Sharmadean Reid as described by @cruzmariawyndham - two inspirational women it was a joy to chat with about our shared #Egyptian passion instagram.com/p/DQJohgoDLMD/…

🐜🗡️Pest control c.1300 BC courtesy of dapper #Egyptian scribe Nakht, wielding a knife while also reciting this 'Spell to repel a beetle: Begone from me, O Crooked-lips!' as portrayed in Chapter 36 of his Book of the Dead funerary papyrus (image: BM)

❤️A red-clad #Egyptian trio of deities Isis and Osiris with their devotee Lady Takhenmes, as portrayed on her coffin c.700 BC in the superb Egyptian collection Libs and Museums and featured in our blog 'Seeing Red' immortalegypt.co.uk/post/seeing-re… (image: Immortal Egypt)

🔮🪄 For #Halloween, this 'crystal ball amulet surmounted by a gold head of Hathor.... probably contained substances believed to be #magical' according to collections.mfa.org/objects/143587, part of our new blog focusing on #Egyptian gold & mining immortalegypt.co.uk/post/gold-face… (image: MFA)

And after the official opening of the #GrandEgyptianMuseum in which our favourite objects are twin figures of self-styled Sun King #pharaoh Amenhotep III, his perfect statue here is in #LuxorMuseum & in our new blog: immortalegypt.co.uk/post/gold-face… 🌞 (image: Blink/Immortal Egypt)