Author: Tony Watson

The Egyptian Labyrinth

Dr Chris Naunton, 22nd November 2025 ‘There are also double sets of chambers, three thousand altogether, fifteen hundred above and the same number underground.’ (Herodotus, Book II, 148) This lecture, which was held at St Thomas’s Community Centre – a location that was labyrinthine for a few of us in terms of finding it – […]

Attitudes to Disability in Ancient Egypt

A lecture by Kyle Jordan This interesting talk considered the meaning of disability and evidence that showed that, for some people, it was no barrier to a meaningful role in ancient Egyptian society. Some of the highlights follow. It began with a reflection on the meaning of disability today. The term was traced to the […]

Ancient Egyptian Metallurgy

A lecture by Dr Martin Odler, 6th September 2025. Martin Odler’s lecture proved immensely informative as he sought, using his own extensive research, to explode certain myths concerning the use of metals in Ancient Egypt. Martin is a world expert on the use of copper in Ancient Egypt and he started by explaining to us […]

The Valley of the Kings

This is what the ancients called the Valley of the Kings: The Great and Majestic Necropolis of the Millions of Years of the Pharaoh, Life, Strength, Health in the West of Thebes. Views: 1

Experiments in Tomb Building in the Valley of the Kings

20 July 2025 I never knew that water could be so unwelcome in the desert. That is until member Diana Hayden explained in her presentation the problems tomb builders had with flooding. So much so that some passages were constructed with pits to trap the water. Then again, the Valley of the Kings was formed […]

2025-07 Experiments in tomb building in the Valley of the Kings

When: 20th July at 5pm Where: Online (Zoom) To log in, enter 9732716211 then 895609. From what is, probably, the earliest tomb in the valley to the glorious architecture and art of the tomb of Seti I about 220 years later, the talk will illustrate the development of tomb building and consider the changes that took […]

Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary

Author: E A Wallis Budge Reprint of the 1911 ed. published by K. Paul, Trench, Trèubner, London, which was issued as v. 31 of Books on Egypt and Chaldaea. Views: 2

A Hieroglyphic Vocabulary to the Theban Recension of the Book of the Dead

Author: E A Wallis Budge Containing a comprehensive dictionary of hieroglyphs to all the texts of the Theban Recension of the Book of the Dead, and also to most of the supplementary Chapters of the Saïte and Graeco-Roman period that are usually appended to it, this volume will prove to be a staple part of a […]

The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology

Authors: Various The Letter to Nebetitef on Her First Intermediate Period Stela in the Michael C. Carlos Museum The Letter to Nebetitef on Her First Intermediate Period Stela in the Michael C. Carlos Museum The Shabtis of the God’s Father, Yuya A Painter’s Version: Amenhotep, Son of Amunnakhte and Pictorial Tradition The Palermo Stone and […]