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13/06/2025

Petrie Friends AGM and June lectures will be in-person and on zoom on 27th June 2025, at 6.30pm (British Time). This year we have two slightly shorter lectures with our AGM. Maxim Chesnokov will be presenting 'On the Petrie Museum’s cartonnage conservation and re-housing project' and Antonio Reis will be presenting on '3D Mapping of Petrie's Naqada site - ancient Nubt'

In person at G6, UCL Institute of Archaeology, 31 – 34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY, or on zoom. AGM and Zoom access is for members only. Lecture begins 1830 UK time, zoom room opens 1800.

For membership please visit, https://www.friendsofpetrie.org.uk/wp/ .

Image credit: Maxim Chesnokov working on the Petrie Museum's cartonnage conservation (Photo Maxim Chesnokov).

12/06/2025

EXTERNAL EVENT: The Bloomsbury Summer School will be having a hybrid Study Day on 10.30am-6pm on 21 June 2025, 'RETHINKING THE NARMER PALETTE THROUGH ADVANCED DIGITAL IMAGING AND EXPERIMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY' with Dr Kathryn E. Piquette and Mr Michael Oakey.

For more details and booking see https://www.egyptology-uk.com/bloomsbury/study-days.htm

Image credit: The Narmer Palette in the Egyptian Museum, Tahrir Square, Cairo. (Photograph by Onceinawhile under CC BY-SA 4.0 license via Wikimedia Commons)

11/06/2025

Friends of the Petrie Museum Magazine number 52 from 2019 is now available to read and download on our website https://www.friendsofpetrie.org.uk/wp/friends-of-the-petrie-museum-magazine/

You can find the magazines embedded in reverse order, so 52 is currently at the bottom of the page.

10/06/2025

EXTERNAL EVENT: The Egypt Exploration Society hybrid Study Day, Delta Dynasties: Cities of Power in Ancient Egypt' on the 12th July 1-6pm will explore four Capital cities in the Egyptian Delta.

In-person attendance at the Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Torrington Square, London, WC1H 0XG.

For more details and booking visit https://www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/events/delta-capitals.html

Image credit: Painting of Sais in the mid-19th century by Karl Richard Lepsius, public domain via Wikimedia Commons.

09/06/2025

Hybrid conference via EEF: The conference,“Women’s Perspectives in the Nile Valley”,
25th to 27th June 2025 in Warsaw (Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw), is now a hybrid conference. For more details and the book of abstracts please visit:

The event focuses on female experiences and perspectives in ancient Egypt and Nubia, addressing divine, royal, elite, and non-elite spheres. It also explores the history of
exploration and the role of women in the study of the ancient Nile Valley.

Image credit: Women at a banquet, Metropolitan Museum of Art (30.4.92).

06/06/2025

FREE ONLINE RESOURCE: 'The World of Middle Kingdom Egypt (2000-1550 BCE). Contributions on Archaeology, Art, Religion, and Written Sources - Vol. III, Gianluca Miniaci and Wolfram Grajetzki (eds.)', ' is now available to download for free. The volume covers a range of papers from archaeological to object-focused and many first-time published objects.

https://egittologia.cfs.unipi.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Miniaci-Grajetzki_The-world-of-Middle-Kingdom-Egypt-III_MKS-12.pdf

Image credit: A mirror from the Petrie Collection (UC 17510). The new publication includes toilet objects, like kohl tubes, used for personal adornment.

05/06/2025

SEMINAR RECORDINGS via EEF: The recordings of the seminar 'Invisible Networks: Patronage in Old Kingdom funerary cult' held at the University of Seville on the6th of March are now available on the project website. You can also find useful publications and further details of the project, which documents patronage and relationships in the Old Kingdom funerary cult.

https://institucional.us.es/invnetproj/en/noticias/invisible-networks-seminar-videos

Image credit: The mastaba of Meresankh III, from the Eastern cemetery at Giza. G7530-G7540. (Hannah Pethen)

04/06/2025

EXTERNAL EVENT: The Manchester Ancient Egypt Society Online (zoom) lecture will take place on the 9th June at 7.45pm UK time (GMT +1). This month will feature Michelle Scott speaking on, 'Rethinking Predynastic Egyptian identity and embodiment through broken figurines and fragments'. For more details of the lecture or society see https://maesweb.org.uk/

Non-members can attend at a cost of £5 paid via Eventbrite. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maes-zoom-michelle-scott-predynastic-egyptian-identity-tickets-1347959586409?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

Image credit: A repaired predynastic (possibly Naqada II) figurine purchased in Egypt by Petrie and authenticated by thermoluminescence in 1974 (UC 15157), CC BY-NC-SA license UCL 2017.

03/06/2025

International hybrid conference: The annual 'Poles on the Nile' conference takes place 9-11th June 2025, featuring the range of Polish investigations across Egypt and Sudan. To view the program and register for hybrid attendance please visit http://polacynadnilem.uw.edu.pl/

Image credit: The excavation and conservation at the temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahri is one of the best known Polish research projects of recent years. Here the temple is seen from Dra Abu el-Naga. (Photo by Hannah Pethen).

02/06/2025

EXTERNAL EVENT: The Ancient Egypt and Middle East Society Lecture on the 19th June at 7pm will feature Sarah Griffiths lecturing on 'Egypt’s Middle Kingdom: Conflict, Murder and a Cultural Golden Age' and 'The Ancient Egyptians: The World’s First Gardeners'. Tickets are available through Eventbrite and a recording will be available for attendees after the event for a short period.

Image credit: The massed ranks of Senusret I statues from his pyramid complex at Lisht, now guarding the stairway of the Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza. Such statues set a standard for art and power for subsequent generations.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-with-sarah-griffiths-tickets-1360875147199

30/05/2025

TODAY PMF LECTURE: Our next Friends of the Petrie Museum lecture will be in-person and on zoom Today,n 30th May 2025, at 6.30pm. Lea Rees and Hanna Navratilova will be presenting on '(Re)Discovering Dahshur. Arabic scholars, early European travelers, and Petrie’s Murder Mystery.'
In person at G6, UCL Institute of Archaeology, 31 – 34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY, or on zoom. Zoom access is for members only. Lecture begins 1830 UK time, zoom room opens 1800.
For membership please visit, https://www.friendsofpetrie.org.uk/wp/ .
Image credit: Petrie's photograph of the casing of the north-east corner of the south pyramid at Dahshur, showing the inclined courses. (Reproduced with permission of the Griffith Institute, University of Oxford).

29/05/2025

New discoveries. The owner of a Theban tomb has been identified. Kampp tomb -23- has been identified as the tomb of Amunmes, a Ramesside mayor of Thebes. Interestingly, this Amunmes's titles are similar to those of another Amunmes attested from inscriptions dating to the reign of Ramesses IV in the Wadi Hammamat.

For more information see https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/546735.aspx

Image credit: The plan of Kampp tomb -23- as published in her 1996, 'Die Thebanische Nekropole', volume 2, (Phillip von Zabern: Mainz), page 635.

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