BEC3 Keynote Lecture (and reception): Dr Mark Lehner, Khentkawes of Giza: New Light on a Well-Known Site
Event Info
Host: EES
Type: Education - Lecture
Time and Place
Start Time: Saturday, 11th September 2010, 6:00 pm
End Time: Saturday, 11th September 2010, 9:00 pm
Location: The British Museum
Street: Great Russell Street
City/Town: London WC1B 3DG
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Contact Details
Email: contact@ees.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)20 7242 1880
Link: http://tinyurl.com/thirdbec
Description
*Please note that the cost of this lecture and the reception is included in the fee to attend BEC3 (http://tinyurl.com/thirdbec). Anyone attending the conference need not pay for a separate ticket.
We are delighted that Dr Lehner will be joining us to give the keynote lecture on his fieldwork at Giza.
Four seasons of work by the Ancient Egypt Research Associates (AERA, www.aeraweb.org) at the monumental tomb and town of Khentkawes I at Giza has shed new light on the place of this queen's giant mastaba tomb in the quarry and construction sequence of the necropolis, and has revealed a heretofore unknown valley complex. The AERA team has cleared and re-mapped a second approach ramp and valley complex excavated by Selim Hassan in 1932 at the interface between the Khentkawes Town and Menkaure Valley Temple. As the features and details of this interface come into greater focus, they shed new light on the relationships between the two royal layouts, and on a possible hiatus and reoccupation of the Khentkawes Town. Evidence from this interface, the houses of the Khentkawes Town, and AERA's main excavation site, HeG, south of the Heit el-Ghurob, may contribute to the discussion of climate change and the Old Kingdom.
The lecture will be followed by a reception in the Egyptian Sculpture Gallery at the Museum.
This event is organised by The EES / Dept. of Egypt and Sudan, The British Museum / UCL