Lecturer: Sofia Aziz – Biomedical Egyptologist, author and broadcaster

Date & Time: Saturday June 7th starting at 4:15pm

Location: Cooper Art Gallery

Sofia Aziz is the author of The Human Brain in Ancient Egypt, which examines what the ancient Egyptian physicians understood about the workings of the brain. Her research provides new insights on mummification methods and medicine of the time. Her methods include CT scanning and the examination of medical papyri.

She has featured in several documentaries and TV Series including “Egypt’s Unexplained Files” and “Waking the Dead” with Bettany Hughes. 

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: Dr Gina Criscenzo-Laycock – Curator of the Garstang Museum of Archaeology at the University of Liverpool.

Date & Time: Saturday April 12th starting at 4:15pm

Location: Cooper Art Gallery

An ageing leader whose sexual activities have led to falling respect for the central power. Climate change causing growing social unrest and fears. Declining confidence in the  the greatness of the most powerful regional empire leading to international tensions and threats. Regional powers increasingly challenging central authority causing division and fragmentation of once commonly held social attitudes.

Often called the First Intermediate Period, such was the age of the great overlords, according to later chroniclers. But how true a picture is it and what can the social and political changes of Egypt four-and-a-half thousand years ago teach us about our modern world?

For tickets please email – Tickets.HapySociety@gmail.com or visit the Cooper Art Gallery gift shop in Church St, Barnsley, S70 2AH. You can also book tickets by phoning the Cooper Art Gallery on 01226 775678.

Cost: £15 Non-Members / £14 Members

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

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Lecturer: John Johnson – Egyptologist and Chairman of the Horus Egyptology Society based in Wigan.

Date & Time : Saturday February 8th starting at 4:15pm

Location: Cooper Art Gallery

Be prepared to be amazed by the colour and detail of the tomb paintings and the mythology which inspired the work which has survived for nearly 3,300 years!

John Johnson will be talking to us about the tomb of Nefertari – “QV66”. Discovered in the valley of the Queens in 1904 the tomb is certainly one of the most exquisitely decorated of the Theban tombs.

Nefertari was the most favoured wife of Ramesses the Great, her name meaning beautiful companion.

The quality of the wall paintings is astonishing and reflects her personal beauty and the importance given to the instructions for achieving an afterlife in paradise.

Nefertari is often shown being presented to gods and the text is largely from the Book of the Dead with instructions about how to get through the various gates guarded by fearsome demons with terrifying names such as “opener of fore heads”!

Tickets – please email – Tickets.HapySociety@gmail.com or pop into to Cooper Gallery gift shop

Cost: £15 Non-Members / £14 Members

cost includes a buffet after the lecture with tea and coffee

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