Events

Read the autobiography of Ahmose, son of Ebana, as written on the walls of his tomb in El-Kab with Joseph Clayton on two Saturday afternoons. Start time: 11:00 (UK) / 13:00 (Egypt)

RESCHEDULED DATE. Monica Hanna discusses the need to critically reassess Egyptology, through decolonisation, broader focus, and ethical and sustainable practices. Start time: 18:00 (UK) / 20:00 (Egypt)

Discover how ancient Egyptians used their script–and how writing began around the world, starting with a tour around the British Museum and a workshop to recreate ancient writing at the Honey & Co. Studio. Start time: 13:00 (UK)

Join Joseph Clayton to build on the basics of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, and start reading inscriptions found on monuments and in museums. Start time - 18:00 (UK) / 20:00 (Egypt)

Following EA 66, Lisa Randisi discusses items in the liminal space between object and archive within the Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology. Start time: 13:00 (UK) / 15:00 (Egypt)

Join us at the EES London office, as part of the Open House Festival, to visit our library, archive and exhibition! Saturday 13 September, 10:00-16:00 (UK Time).

These external events will bring together new academic research with the perspectives and lived experiences of Nubians. Start time: 18:00 (UK) / 20:00 (Egypt)

Dr Claudia Näser will unravel the history of Deir el-Medina and explore the lives and deaths of its inhabitants, the workmen who built the tombs in the Valley of the Kings. Start time - 14:00 (UK) / 16:00 (Egypt)

This joint EES-BILNAS event will explore the great contributions made to our understanding of the archaeology and other aspects of North Africa by European women explorers. Start time: 13:00 (UK) / 15:00 (Egypt)

Nicholas Brown presents his new hypothesis of Tutankhamun's mud trays functioning as libation offering basins for an Osirian funerary rite, to be published in JEA 111. Start time: 13:00 (UK) / 15:00 (Egypt)