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Lecture Reviews
Dr Gina Criscenzo-Laycock
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Gods of Egypt
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The Tomb of Nefertari
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A Timeline of Egypt
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Displaced: From the Nile to the Derwent. Museum Trip Review
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Secret Signs: Decoding the Cryptography of Egyptian Texts
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The History of the Rosetta Stone Rebellion
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Detectives, Death and Debutantes: Agatha Christie and Egypt
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Chairmans Review of Dr Robert Loynes Lecture
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Archives
Past Public Lectures
02 – 2025 Age of the Great Overlords – Ambitious Usurpers or Loyal Officials of the King?
(0)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

01 – 2025 QV66 The Tomb of Nefertari – Presented by John Johnson
(0)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

06 – 2024 Secret Signs: Decoding the Cryptography of Egyptian Texts
(0)Lecturer: Dr Penny Wilson – Lecturer at Durham University
Date & Time : Saturday 16th November 2024 @ 4:15pm
Location: Cooper Art Gallery
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

05 – 2024 The History of the Rosetta Stone Rebellion
(0)Lecturer: Dr Jay Silverstein – Lecturer Nottingham Trent University
Date & Time : Saturday October 12th @ 4:15pm
Location: Cooper Art Gallery
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

04 – 2024 Can Mummies Tell us about Health and Disease in Ancient Egypt?
(0)Lecturer: Dr Robert Loynes – Honorary Lecturer At Manchester University’s KNH Centre
Date & Time : Saturday 31st August 2024 @ 4:15pm
Synopsis: In his lecture Dr Loynes will review the ways in which CAT scans and other research methods have been used to reveal the medical issues which faced Ancient Egyptians. Using many images from his research, he will explain what can and can’t be revealed by using CAT scans, and he will explore several of the many conditions which were part of everyday life in Ancient Egypt. As a retired surgeon and a research Egyptologist, Dr Loynes is in a unique position to give an authoritative view on this fascinating subject and to open an evidence-based window on the lives of those who were so determined to preserve their mortal remains
Location: Cooper Art Gallery
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

03 – 2024 Singing with the Dead: The Harpist’s Song in the New Kingdom
(0)Lecturer: Dr Huw Twiston Davies – Lecturer in Egyptology at Manchester University
Date & Time : Saturday 15th June 2024 @4:15pm
Location: Cooper Art Gallery
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

02 – 2024 Threads through time: Textiles and Beliefs in Ancient Egypt
(0)Lecturer: Ian Trumble – Curator of Bolton Museum
Date & Time : Saturday 13th April 2024 @4:15pm
Location: Cooper Art Gallery
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

01 – 2024 Egypt’s Middle Kingdom: Conflict, Murder and a Cultural Golden Age
(0)Lecturer: Sarah Griffiths – Curator of the Manchester Egyptology Society
Date & Time : Saturday 17th February 2024 @ 4:15pm
Synopsis : The Middle Kingdom, seen as Egypt’s classical period for art, history and literature, began with the rise of a warrior king who reunified Egypt, re-established the country’s prosperity and international standing, and whose stunning mortuary temple became the template on which the great temples of the New Kingdom were based. Sarah Griffiths explores the reign and legacy of a pharaoh revered by later kings: Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II of the 11th Dynasty.
Location: Cooper Art Gallery
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

Past Online Lectures
Egyptian Mathematics in Pharaonic Times
(0)When: 16th July at 7:30pm
Where: Online (Zoom)
Tony Watson, one of our members, presents a talk entitled “Egyptian Mathematics in Pharaonic Times”. It should be very enlightening and interesting.

The Baboon in Ancient Egyptian Religion and Art
(0)14th May 2024 @ 7:30pm –
Guest Lecturer Diana Hayden from our “Big Brother” the Horus Society will be presenting.

Egypt’s greatest pharaohs
(0)Date Tuesday 11th July
Time 7pm
Andy Ward (our Society’s Chairman) walks us through Egypt’s Greatest Pharaohs. An online Zoom Presentation
Zoom ID 973-271-6211
Password 895609

The Goddess Neith
(0)May 2023 – Member Presenter: Christiane Cartwright – Synopsis: Neith (Nit, Net, Neit) was an ancient goddess of war and weaving. Goddess Neith was the patron goddess of the Red Crown of Lower Egypt and the city of Zau (Sais, Lower Egypt). Egyptians portrayed her as a fierce deity in her usual representations, a woman wearing the Red Crown, occasionally holding or using the bow and arrow, and in others, a harpoon. In her form as a goddess of war, she made warriors’ weapons and guarded their warriors’ bodies when they died. Her symbol was two arrows crossed over a shield.

Bill Nolan – The Turin Museum
(0)December 2022 – Guest Lecturer Bill Nolan from our Big Brother the Horus Society will present a talk on the Turin Museum.
