Enjoyed chatting about all things archaeological and historical with Immortal Egypt: Prof. Joann Fletcher and David Sillito BBC at the Big Ideas By The Sea- Scarborough Scarborough Big Dig yesterday.

It was so great to be back again York Festival of Ideas talking about ‘Egypt in Yorkshire’, our wonderful museums Scarborough Museums and Galleries and the new North Yorkshire Council Janet Deacon And thanks so much to all of you in our capacity crowd - you were fab! Yorkshire Museum Archaeology UoYork

See this month’s blog ‘From northern schools to Fortnite: have fun learning!’ immortalegypt.co.uk/post/from-nort… DKLearning Bradford Literature Festival PRELOADED Archaeology UoYork #fortnite

More great coverage on the ancient seaweed research at english.elpais.com/science-tech/2… and cnn.com/2023/10/17/eur…

Hugely honoured to have been appointed patron of the north's leading environmental & arts festival BIG IDEAS BY THE SEA! It’s brilliant to be working with Big Ideas By The Sea- Scarborough john oxley Heritage Adventures Ltd Marie Woods thescarboroughnews.co.uk/whats-on/thing…

Brilliant to see the incredible work by Stephen (Immortal Egypt: Prof. Joann Fletcher) being featured here! This is proving to be a game changer in encouraging more people to engage in the sciences! #science #engagement #egyptology #history #archaeology #access #inclusion

Excited to have the wonderful Jo (Immortal Egypt: Prof. Joann Fletcher) venture up to Land of Iron to present this fabulous talk 🧡

Our new blog at immortalegypt.co.uk/post/isis-in-t… features the classic book ‘Isis in the Ancient World’ by Rex Witt, tracing the spread of the goddess’ worship from Egypt across the ancient world, with unexpected links to the surrealist art of Chorley-born Leonora Carrington 😍

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Scarborough-based scientist Dr. Stephen Buckley, a leading international authority on mummification around the ancient world, has been designated a new role as part of the recently launched Royal Society of Chemistry’s new ‘Enable Science’ project. thescarboroughnews.co.uk/news/people/em…

So honoured to be giving the annual Barbara Canham Turner lecture for University of Hull in April, celebrating our long term work with the university and the many links between ancient Egypt and Yorkshire #AncientEgyptYorks #hullunieventsuu

We are delighted to announce our next exhibit! Life in The Iron Valley – an exhibition of work prints and rarely seen photographs depicting the village of Skinningrove - by Chris Killip and Graham Smith opens on Saturday 16th March 2024.

Cheers … we are half way through the week! 🍷

The wonderful Jo (Immortal Egypt: Prof. Joann Fletcher) is now on YouTube!!! Cheers to you oh brilliant bean!!!! 🍷

Today's the day! Life in The Iron Valley, our exhibition of rare and previously unseen images of Skinningrove by Chris Killip and Graham Smith opens today. We were honoured to welcome Mary Halpenny-Killip yesterday for an early look. Free with museum admission.

Quoted in CNN story about a 4000 year old red ‘lipstick’ from Iran edition.cnn.com/2024/03/18/sty… pointing out that it may alternatively have been used to colour the cheeks, and that such red cosmetics first appear in #Egypt some 2000 years before this new find (photo mine)

Are you looking for a new challenge or want a change of scenery? Then why not come and join our fabulous team. For more information why not drop me a message, email, call me, or pop over to the museum to have a chat over a cup of tea! 🧡

Community Archaeology is one of the best forms of archaeology 💚👷👷‍♀️⛏️

Honoured to feature on the cover and inside The Egypt Exploration Society magazine 'Egyptian Archaeology' with the article '#Tutankhamun, Art & #Yorkshire' (with a fair few mentions of #Barnsley obviously) 😍 ees.ac.uk/product/ea-64.…

What a superb Big Ideas By The Sea- Scarborough festival 2024! From the Big Dig #archaeology with the fabulous Heritage Adventures Ltd to Kane Cunningham's wonderful #art exhibition '35 Years in the Making' Old Parcels Office Artspace - and everything in between. See you all again in 2025! 🥰