#Egyptology job alert! A 12-month Departmental Lecturer post in Egyptology University of Oxford. Please circulate and please apply!
(This post is thanks to a @BritishAcademy / The Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship).
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🖐️ We're hiring! We're looking for a part-time archivist to join us the Griffith Institute! For more details, visit jobs.ox.ac.uk then 'Search All Jobs' & click 'Asian and Middle Eastern Studies' from the dropdown menu. Please share! The deadline to apply is 22nd April.

Looking forward to reading this in-depth study of the first major collection of Egyptian antiquities at the British Museum britishmuseum.org/research/briti…

A massive Neolithic complex in Orkney and a lost 1,500-year-old monastery in Aberdeenshire are just some of the sites that Abeer has helped to uncover ⚒️

On #InternationalWomensDay , get to know Abeer and more pioneering women archaeologists: digitscotland.com/five-women-in-…

Today on #InternationalWomensDay I’m thinking about extraordinary women in antiquity & amazing women colleagues today ❤️

Next Friday @ 18:30 I’ll be speaking Friends of the Petrie Museum about The ‘Qurna Queen’: Reassessing a 17th Dynasty Intact Royal Burial friendsofpetrie.org.uk/wp/lectures/20…

Tomorrow at 5:00 in person- refreshments will be served ( Hopefully some Egyptian style refreshments too)
#Aberdeen
#Egypt
#Antiquities
#Archaeology

📢 Free Edinburgh talk next Tuesday March 5 @ 5pm by Shaaban Abd Elgawad, Head of Repatriation in Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism & Antiquities on ‘Egyptian efforts to preserve cultural heritage & combat illegal trafficking’, Appleton Tower, Lecture Theatre 1, University of Edinburgh

Only a few more hours to get your tickets for tonight!
It’s going to be a great event

Free online event next Tuesday: ‘Buying Power: British Archaeology and the Antiquities Market in Egypt and Sudan 1880–1939’! nms.ac.uk/buyingpowereve…

📢Join us National Museums Scotland for a free conference on archaeology & the antiquities trade in Egypt & Sudan on February 16! The event is part of an AHRC-project led by Dr Dan Potter & will feature Stephen Quirke Alice Stevenson Ken Griffin Summer Rose Austin! nms.ac.uk/exhibitions-ev…

'Buying Power: The Intersection of Archaeology and the Antiquities Trade in Egypt and Sudan'
16 February 2024 a FREE one day conference National Museums Scotland in Edinburgh sharing exciting research in Egyptology, museums and art market studies. Open to all!
🎟️nms.ac.uk/exhibitions-ev…

Check out this amusing & thought-provoking short story by Adrian Hon - historically European scholars & museums justified colonial collecting as ‘preservation’. But how would this look if it were *British* antiquities being taken to… the Galactic Museum?! mssv.net/2023/02/26/the…

It was such a delight to spend the day exploring ancient Cypriot collections National Museums Scotland with Dr Anna Reeve! 🏺 For more on Anna’s work with collections from Amathus, see her blog cypriotartleeds.wordpress.com/tag/amathus/

Honoured to have had Egyptian Egyptologist Heba Abd el Gawad | هبة عبد الجواد & comic artist Nasser here National Museums Scotland to discuss ‘Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage’! It was a fantastic event - thought-provoking and inspiring - thanks to everyone who attended! nms.ac.uk/collections-re…

Thank you for the invitation and the warm welcome, it has been a pleasure and an honor being here National Museums Scotland

Happy #InternationalMuseumDay ! We’ll be celebrating on Saturday by welcoming Heba Abd el Gawad | هبة عبد الجواد & Nasser to National Museums Scotland to discuss the project ‘Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage’! The event is now sold out, but you can read more about our collaboration here: nms.ac.uk/collections-re…

An 'impossible' ancient Egyptian statue that has puzzled scholars for decades has been deciphered ow.ly/9FoA50NP9oQ National Museums Scotland

Surprise, surprise: museums other than British Museum are questioning and changing past practices for ancient Egyptian material (and human remains) in their care. Here Great North Museum: Hancock and National Museums Scotland offer glimmers of hope. Thanks Sanden Totten for link.
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Scotland agrees to return totem pole ‘stolen’ from First Nation village in Canada scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-…

We’re pleased to announce that National Museums Scotland will be transferring the House of Ni'isjoohl Memorial Pole to the Nisga’a Nation.

A Nisga’a delegation visited us in August to see the Pole and to make a formal request for its return.