06 – Jay Silverstein
Date: 28th November 2026 Details to be announced Views: 9
05 – The Tombs of Senenmut
Dr Campbell Price 17th October Details to follow Views: 11
04 – How to Organize a Temple – Some Rules for Temples at Edfu and Luxor
Professor Penny Wilson 18th July Details to follow Views: 11
03 – The Ancient Egyptian Harem – Drudgery or Debauchery?
Dylan Bickerstaff 9th May Details to follow Views: 17
02 – The House of Hatiay – a Luxury Armana Villa
Lecturer: Ian Trumble Date: 7th March 2026 Location: The Cooper Gallery, Barnsley Tickets: £16 (£15 for members) are available at the Cooper Gallery and they can be reserved on this website on the Public Events page. Hatiay was Akhenaten’s overseer of works who helped the pharaoh to realize his dream of a new city in […]
01 – The Life of the Tomb Builders at Deir el-Medina
Date: Saturday 24th January 2026 Location: St Thomas’s Church Hall, 89 Church St, Gawber, S75 2RL Tickets: £15 (£14 for members) are available at the Cooper Gallery in Church Street. They can also be reserved by calling the Gallery on 01226 775678. The remarkable remains of the tomb builders’ dwellings from over 3,000 years ago […]
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: 3