The Kingdom of Osiris: aspects of Egyptian funerary archaeology June 21, 2008

The Society's annual conference focusses this year on Egyptian funerary beliefs.

Tickets £60 members, £75 non-members, £50 student members, £60 student non-members

Talks include the following:
The Predynastic Rituals of Abydos (Dr Alice Stevenson)
Recent Discoveries at Dayr al-Barsha (Prof Harco Willems)
Restoring Old Kingdom Tombs During the First Intermediate Period (Dr Marleen De Meyer)
Re-excavating KV 57, the royal tomb of Horemheb (Prof Geoffrey Martin)
Gods, Graves, and Glorifications (Dr Martin Bommas)
Painters and scribes and their work on Theban coffins in the Libyan and Kushite periods (Dr John Taylor)
Beyond the Valley of the Kings: the royal tombs of the Third Intermediate and later Periods (Dr Aidan Dodson)
Non-Royal Burials at Thebes in the late Libyan, Kushite and Saite Periods (Chris Naunton)
Mummies and Medicine (Prof Rosalie David)
The Theban West Bank since ‘antiquity’ (Caroline Simpson)

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