Lecturer: Martin Odler – Egyptologist and postdoctoral researcher at Newcastle University

Date & Time: Saturday September 6th starting at 4:15pm

Location: Cooper Art Gallery

Have you ever wondered how the Egyptians managed to carve out those tombs using only copper alloy tools? Martin Odler promises to shine some light on that when he visits us to give a lecture at the Cooper Gallery in Barnsley on 6th September.

Dr Odler is the author of three academic books and numerous articles on ancient Egyptian copper. He is a postdoctoral fellow at Newcastle University’s School of History, Classics and Archaeology and, according to Professor Joann Fletcher, a world expert on Egyptian copper. He is part of EgypToolWear, a pioneering research project looking at how metal tools were used in late Chalcolithic and Bronze Age Egypt (approximately 3500 to 1070 BC).

Until now, scholars have relied on texts and images to interpret Egyptian tools. However, EgypToolWear uses a hands-on, scientific analysis that promises to challenge long-held assumptions: for example, the idea that Egyptian toolmaking was conservative and unchanging.

For tickets please email – Tickets.HapySociety@gmail.com or visit the Cooper Art Gallery gift shop in Church St, Barnsley, S70 2AH

Cost: £15 Non-Members / £14 Members

The cost includes a buffet after the lecture with tea and coffee

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Lecturer: Kyle Jordan – Egyptologist and curator

Date & Time: Saturday October 11th starting at 4:15pm

Location: Cooper Art Gallery

Kyle Jordan is passionate about improving knowledge and understanding of disability in ancient Egypt and wider antiquity and has given many talks and papers on the subject. He has also had experience volunteering with museums, in particular the Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology and the British Museum.

His displays are loud, proud, thought-provoking, sometimes funny, often moving. The tight community that he created with his co-curators at the Pitt Rivers Museum was incredibly impressive, binding together as it did a really diverse group that included a university professor and a young woman with Down’s syndrome.

For tickets please email – Tickets.HapySociety@gmail.com or visit the Cooper Art Gallery gift shop in Church St, Barnsley, S70 2AH

Cost: £15 Non-Members / £14 Members

The cost includes a buffet after the lecture with tea and coffee

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Lecturer: Chris Naunton – Egyptologist, writer and broadcaster

Date & Time: Saturday November 22nd starting at 4:15pm

Location: St Thomas’s Community Centre, Church Street, Gawber, Barnsley, S75 2RL

The Faiyum oasis is a basin 62 miles south of Cairo. It seems to have been particularly significant during the Middle Kingdom, when the new capital city, Ity-Tawy, was established nearby, and in the Ptolemaic Period when it was extensively cultivated. Several Twelfth Dynasty kings built pyramids in the region, including Amenemhat III, whose vast mortuary complex appears to have inspired the much later legend of a labyrinth.

Dr Naunton has made nearly twenty television documentaries, including The Man Who Discovered Egypt (BBC4), Tutankhamun: The Mystery of the Burned Mummy (Channel 4) and King Tut’s Tomb: The Hidden Chamber (Channel 5).

For tickets please email – Tickets.HapySociety@gmail.com or visit the Cooper Art Gallery gift shop in Church St, Barnsley, S70 2AH

Cost: £15 Non-Members / £14 Members

The cost includes a buffet after the lecture with tea and coffee

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