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Four times Agatha Christie turned to Egypt for inspiration, or five if we include an unpublished novel Snow upon the Desert.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 […]
Baboons in Ancient Egyptian Art and Religion
On the 14th May 2024 , Diana Hayden, one of our members, gave a fascinating talk, online, to the Society’s Members. Our thanks to Diana for sharing with us a really interesting talk with dozens of wonderful images from the whole breadth of Ancient Egyptian culture. She traced the importance of the baboon back to […]
Ian Trumble – Threads through time: Textiles and Beliefs in Ancient Egypt
This was Ian’s second visit to the Hapy Society and this time he was really focusing on what makes Bolton Museum famous – it’s huge collection of Egyptian textiles. Surprisingly, perhaps, the textile collection at the Bolton Museum is recognised as the best collection in the world, outside Egypt! We are therefore very fortunate to […]
Sarah Griffiths – Egypt’s Middle Kingdom: Conflict, Murder and a Cultural Golden Age
Alright, admit it! Who had heard of Mentuhotep II before this lecture? And, if you did know of Mentuhotep II, the great unifier of Egypt around 2000BC, did you also know of Mentuhotep III and IV? And what about Amenemhat I, II, III and IV, or Senusret I, II or III? Not forgetting Sobekneferu, the […]
Petrie Museum Visit – 1st May 2024
Having first assembled at the Friends House cafe (I highly recommended it) the Petrie Museum was but a short walk away. There we were met by a young lady called Uzma Haque, who was to be our very well-informed guide on a tour specially laid on for us. What was particularly fascinating about this collection […]
Review of Dr. Stephen Buckley’s lecture: Egyptian Mummification – From the Stone Age to the Modern Age
We at the Hapy Society have been blessed, over the last few years, by the quality of the talks given by our visiting speakers. That given by Dr. Stephen Buckley, from York University, was no exception. Dr. Buckley’s topic centred on mummification in ancient Egypt, and he gave us a fascinating insight into the techniques […]