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Ancient Egypt and Sudan at The Manchester Museum

Name: Ancient Egypt and Sudan at The Manchester Museum
Address: Manchester, M139PL, GB
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18/04/2024

Top 20 Ancient Egyptians - featuring Imhotep, Nefermaat, Maya and Ramose.

Zoom Study Day with Dr Nicky Nielsen and Dr Campbell Price.
Saturday 20th April, 9.30-15:30 UK time

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/top-twenty-ancient-egyptians-tickets-862803728177

14/03/2024

Last places available for Dr Nicky Nielsen and I's study day on Saturday 16th March, 9.30-3:30 UK time:

All That Glitters: Gold in Ancient Egypt

(lectures available to participants after the event)

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/all-that-glitters-gold-in-ancient-egypt-tickets-838480205867

15/02/2024

25 years almost to the day since I started my school work experience placement @ the Burrell Collection I'm back to meet up with lovely regional partners from . Still my dream job! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤️

12/02/2024

Just too late for , a great article on Mohammedani Ibrahim, one of the first Egyptian-born archaeological photographers, who took this haunting shot of the 3900 year old statue of Lady Sennuwy emerging from excavations at Kerma, Sudan

https://www.aramcoworld.com/Articles/September-2021/Egyptology-s-Eloquent-Eye

10/02/2024

Spending my Saturday afternoon thinking about the leonine "chess pieces" of acquired by Grenville Chester (1830-1892)... Yep. 🦁♟️

Ivory examples seen at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo last year.

Jasper example with prenomen of Hatshepsut

08/02/2024

to the wonderful archival material on show in the exhibition at the Weston Library
last year. Especially remember this conflation of the curse story, Howard Carter's canary and a ka-statue of the king. depicted as threat.

07/02/2024

It's not every day that you can show someone their *actual* name written in (as opposed to writing on a napkin to impress people at a party...) but today I introduced Filmmaking student Ptolemy to this statue of Ptolemy V from Armant ! 🤩

06/02/2024

Preparing objects today for Dr Huw Twiston Davies's classes running this semester . Introducing students to the 3000 year old names of stela owner Bakenkhonsu & a cartonnage carapace for the mummified body of the priest(?) of Amun in Karnak, Nakhtefmut ✍️

01/02/2024

to hanging out with the baboons of the Ramesseum last year 🐵☀️

31/01/2024

Love this 3250 year old limestone ostracon from the workers' town of Deir eI Medina giving the excuses for absence from work on the royal tomb during the reign of Ramesses II.

My personal top 3:
- 'brewing beer'
- 'mummifying his mother'
- 'drinking with Khonsu'

25/01/2024

to last month + hanging out with the deified sage Imhotep (last on the right after Hathor) at the temple of his divine adopted father Ptah at . Love me some healing wisdom! 🤓⚕️📚🇪🇬

18/01/2024

to enjoying the morning sunshine and raking light on the numerous monuments displayed in the Open Air Museum at

16/01/2024

A bit obsessed with the goddess Seshat currently. She's associated with measuring & recording, especially with the king's reign & the construction of temples. Here's Hatshepsut (l) opposite the goddess (r) as they dedicate the structure in which they stand: the Red Chapel, Karnak.

14/01/2024

Here's a gorgeous 2600 year old greywacke sculpture of the goddess Taweret ('She-Who-Is-Great') dedicated by the High Steward Pabasa & snapped @ the Egyptian Museum in Cairo last month. You're welcome 🦛

11/01/2024

to last month at the temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu & admiring the wordplay in the writing of the name of the temple: [Ram III] United-with-Cyclical-Eternity (Khenmet-Neheh). Look at the female personification of 'united' holding 'eternity'! 🤩

08/01/2024

Researcher trying to match-the-lid to these very unusual canopic jars today . The jars are part of a Late Period set that was reinscribed for someone named Psamtek - does anyone know of parallels for altered canopic jars?

07/01/2024

On , here's a delightful wee discovery I made last month - one of the very few depictions of a block statue comes from this Ptolemaic stela (CG 22054) now the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. It was plate 4.2 in my PhD thesis and I'd never seen it in person before! 🤓

04/01/2024

to getting lost among the blocks of last month and playing spot-the-cartouche.

Any guesses for these two?

31/12/2023

Wishing everyone a very Happy New Year and looking forward to "millions of jubilees like the sun god for ever" in 2024! 🥳✨

(Me at Karnak 2 weeks ago, with Hatshepsut's last remaining standing obelisk - in which my dear Senenmut may have had a hand!)

24/12/2023

On , here is a 2200 year old falcon statue from the Ptolemaic temple of Edfu I snapped last week.

A physical manifestation of the god Horus emerging from the temple rather than a guardian to the god's own domain. Note the double crown is made separately.

18/12/2023

Did I deliberately pack .k8shep's fascinating book just so I could read it on the terrace of the Old Winter Palace...? Yes, yes I did!

17/12/2023

The gorgeous limestone standard-bearing statue of Nebre, fortress commander at Zawaiyet Umm el Rakham excavated by colleagues and now on display in Luxor Museum 🤩🇪🇬

16/12/2023

Things at the blockyard I don't think I'd spotted before, no. 1057...

A 'Beloved King's Bodily Son' riding in a chariot under an umbrella! 🏖️

15/12/2023

Glorious sunset exploring Temple today 😍🇪🇬

15/12/2023

Two images of painted over a century apart. Can you guess which came first...?

14/12/2023

Fulfilled a long-held ambition of getting a look around KV34, the beautiful tomb of King Tuthmose IV today - and again had it all to myself for half an hour!

13/12/2023

So lucky today to have the 2200 year old temple of Horus at Edfu almost entirely to ourselves today 😍🇪🇬

12/12/2023

Abu Simbel today! 😍🇪🇬

An essential message repeated throughout the great temple: (the living) Ramesses II kneels in worship to his falcon-headed divine avatar - described in the hieroglyphic caption as "Ramesses the Great God"

The whole temple celebrates the king's godliness.

11/12/2023

Sunset at my favourite temple in - that of the goddess Isis on the island of Philae, built and decorated between around 360 BCE and 100 CE.

I always spot something new each time in the changing light. Here, the goddess Sekhmet with the Nubian god Arensnuphis 🧡🇪🇬

10/12/2023

A 3200 year old laundry list on a potsherd, with dots presumably indicating the number of garments.

Spotted in the new textile gallery of the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization today 😍🇪🇬

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Visiting Tuthmose III'S 'Chamber of Ancestors' recreation at the rear of #Karnak temple today!

Divine Ramesses in Nubia! #abusimbel #Egypt

On holiday in #Madrid and had to visit the relocated Temple of Dabod 🇪🇸☀️

Closing the work year with a #throwback to last week + a visit to one of my favourite sites in #Egypt: Djeser-Djeseru ('Holy of Holies'), the temple of Queen #Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahri, inspired by the earlier temple of Montuhotep II - with a special @McrMuseum connection! #Egypt #Egyptology #ancientegypt #firstreel