The Tomb of Nefertari
It was great, once again, to welcome our friend John Johnson from the Horus Society to deliver our February lecture and to see such a good turnout for it. John delivered his talk in his usual inimical style, with an equal measure of humour and enthusiasm. His subject, the Tomb of Nefertari, reflected John’s special […]
A Timeline of Egypt
From crude drawings on a rock to the sophistication of Cleopatra’s court, our chairman Andrew Ward traversed 3,000 years of Egyptian history and culture, pointing out notable events and artefacts along the way. The main purpose of this was to see these things in a historical context and to appreciate the great span of time. […]
Displaced: From the Nile to the Derwent. Museum Trip Review
Visit to the Egyptology Special Exhibition at the Derby Museum. On Wednesday the 20th November, a small and committed group made its way to the Derby museum to visit the special exhibition. Despite very bad traffic, the journey was well worth it and we were rewarded with a stimulating and poignant experience. The 80 or […]
Secret Signs: Decoding the Cryptography of Egyptian Texts
Many of us have had fun trying to detangle and translate hieroglyphs on Andy’s online courses*, but Dr Penny Wilson’s talk on Nov 16th was a stimulating reminder that hieroglyphs aren’t just an alphabet, but a powerful and flexible symbolic language. She explored decorations on temples and tombs and showed us how certain signs were […]
The History of the Rosetta Stone Rebellion
On Saturday the 12th October Dr. Jay Silverstein, lecturer at Nottingham Trent University gave a wide ranging and fascinating talk about the context for the production of the world-famous Rosetta Stone. His lecture gave a brief summary of the history of the way in which the Greeks came to rule Egypt following the defeat by […]
Detectives, Death and Debutantes: Agatha Christie and Egypt
Four times Agatha Christie turned to Egypt for inspiration, or five if we include an unpublished novel Snow upon the Desert. This we learned from a most informative talk given by member Helen Fryer. Though she spent more time in Syria and Iraq with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan, helping him with his finds, Christie […]
Chairman’s Review of Dr Robert Loynes Lecture
“Can Mummies tell us about Health and Disease in Ancient Egypt?” On the 31st August it was our great pleasure to welcome back Dr Bob Loynes to deliver a talk on his specialist subject: the use of CT scans, and other techniques to investigate ancient Egyptian mummies. He started by looking back at the history […]
Dr Robert Loynes – Can Mummies Tell us about Health and Disease in Ancient Egypt?
Dr Robert Loynes shared his wealth of information about health and disease in Ancient Egypt with us in his lecture on 31st August 2024 at the Cooper Gallery in Barnsley, Yorkshire. As a retired Orthopaedic Surgeon, who obtained a PhD in Egyptology from the University of Manchester in 2014, he investigated mummification techniques of ancient […]
Egyptian Mathematics from the time of the Pharaohs.
Hapy member and former Maths teacher Tony Watson takes us on a tour of Egyptian numbers and the principles of Egyptian mathematics. Covering the discovery of the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, an invaluable source of information on the subject, Tony explains what the Egyptians used Maths for: sharing out provisions, land and resources, building granaries and, […]
Singing with the Dead: The Harpist’s Song in the New Kingdom
On June 15th, Huw Twiston Davies, lecturer in Egyptology at Manchester University, took us on a journey back to Ancient Egypt. He conjured up for us a land filled with dancing, noise and music, as he traced musical scenes on tomb walls and explained the significance of harpists and accompanying songs from their earliest days […]