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2024 Chairman’s Update

2024 Chairman’s Update

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It has been a good start to the year and a memorable one for the small party (10 of us) who made it to Egypt for a two-week tour of some of the most important sites. Ten days in Luxor were followed by three full days in Cairo. The programme was very full as you...
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Lecture Reviews

Displaced: From the Nile to the Derwent. Museum Trip Review

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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…
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Secret Signs: Decoding the Cryptography of Egyptian Texts

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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…
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The History of the Rosetta Stone Rebellion

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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…
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Rosetta Stone

Detectives, Death and Debutantes: Agatha Christie and Egypt

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Four times Agatha Christie turned to Egypt for inspiration, or five if we include an unpublished novel Snow upon the Desert.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…
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Chairmans Review of Dr Robert Loynes Lecture

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“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…
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Dr Robert Loynes – Can Mummies Tell us about Health and Disease in Ancient Egypt?

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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…
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Egyptian Mathematics from the time of the Pharaohs.

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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…
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Singing with the Dead: The Harpist’s Song in the New Kingdom

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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…
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Baboons in Ancient Egyptian Art and Religion

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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…
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Past Public Lectures

06 – Secret Signs: Decoding the Cryptography of Egyptian Texts

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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 – The History of the Rosetta Stone Rebellion

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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 – Can Mummies Tell us about Health and Disease in Ancient Egypt?

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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 – Singing with the Dead: The Harpist’s Song in the New Kingdom

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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 – Threads through time: Textiles and Beliefs in Ancient Egypt

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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 – Egypt’s Middle Kingdom: Conflict, Murder and a Cultural Golden Age

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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

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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

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14th May 2024 @ 7:30pm –

Guest Lecturer Diana Hayden from our “Big Brother” the Horus Society will be presenting.

British Library - Baboon Statue

Egypt’s greatest pharaohs

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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

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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.

Goddess Neith

Bill Nolan – The Turin Museum

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