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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
Telephone: 0161 275 2648
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Manchester Museum houses over 16,000 objects from Ancient Egypt and Sudan, making it the fifth large FREE ENTRY

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Operating as usual

24/12/2022

Wishing all my followers a very peaceful festive season.

Here's me at dawn in last week, a lesson in keeping things in perspective 💛

20/12/2022

Amidst all the great monuments I've had the privilege to see in the last fortnight, this 3200 year old flake of limestone stands out. It depicts workers quarrying out a royal tomb (indicated by doorway + ramp) in the Valley of the Kings while others remove debris.

19/12/2022

Today I left the Egyptian sun and came forth into a mercifully mild British Winter, rather the inverse of the Ramesside Chief of the Work Gang at Deir el-Medina, Inherkhau (TT359)

Many thanks to + and all the people that made this trip so memorable 😊🇪🇬🙏

18/12/2022

Back, back.... back at Hat!

Revisiting my main girl , female pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty, and getting some photos for my biography of her chief official Senenmut, which I've started properly writing on this trip 🤩🇪🇬✨

18/12/2022

The newly re-erected upper part of the second obelisk of Queen Hatshepsut (c. 1473-1458 BCE) at with 'restoration' texts of King Seti I (c. 1290-1279 BCE) 🤩🇪🇬

17/12/2022

Dawn at Karnak Temple today. Definitely worth the 4.45am start. So close to the winter solstice, it was a privilege to have the Hypostyle Hall almost entirely to ourselves. 🇪🇬🌄✨

17/12/2022

A Friday morning visit to Luxor Temple with the mosque of Abu Haggag and hearing the call to prayer etching round an unusually quiet courtyard. Very special ☺️🇪🇬✨

16/12/2022

The incredible tomb of King Seti I (c. 1290-1279 BCE) in the Valley of the King's is worth the 1000LE extra ticket - most tourist groups don't go there and it's the most beautiful in the valley. I could have spent all day in there. 🤩🇪🇬❤️✨

16/12/2022

After 20 visits to , today I finally made it to the Ramesseum and set eyes upon that shattered visage of the cult colossus 'Re of Rulers'

14/12/2022

Reunited with some old friends ❤️🇪🇬

14/12/2022

So exciting to finally set eyes on the pseudo-epigraphic 'Famine Stela' of the Ptolemaic Period but purportedly written during the reign of King Djoser, 2500 years earlier - definitely worth the schlep up Sehel Island!

13/12/2022

Inner tomb chapel painted offering scene of Sarenput II at Aswan. Vivid colours and glorious details.

09/12/2022

Return to today, 4 years after I last visited the site at which I've spent so much time doing geophysical fieldwork. Some notable improvements to accessibility + interpretation, at the Step Pyramid+ beyond.

Also, feels a world away from the snowy UK... ❄️

07/12/2022

Today was a special day - I accompanied new friends and .ayers who have both made their first trip to with Ancient World Tours after being inspired by 's exhibition ☺️☺️✨

05/12/2022

From perhaps around 1850 BCE, is a particular favourite of mine: the beautifully painted wooden box coffin of the 'overseer of troops' Sepi from El-Bersha - here's his name and title in , with the bowman representing 'troops' 🤩

05/12/2022

Despite a natural focus on the ground floor, there's ongoing work upstairs. I was delighted to discover work by the
Fayoum University & El-Hibe Coffin Project, conserving many examples on display - including this with a 'mummification' scene of a type better known from examples now in Germany.

05/12/2022

Another of those insufferable 'My Monday's Better Than Yours' posts... 😏🙄

04/12/2022

Back to the Egyptian Museum this morning, and plenty of changes afoot...

The Old Kingdom section is now completely re-lit, revealing details of carved objects that have been lost in previous displays. The spotlighting of sculpture continues into the Middle & New Kingdoms, making familiar faces pop as never before...

The serdab statue of King Djoser (c. 2650-2575 BCE), from his Saqqara Step Pyramid complex, looks undeniably fantastic - though the statue itself wasn't supposed to be 'seen' by many, but rather to effect the king's eternal presence in an enclosed space angled to the northern sky

01/12/2022

A pleasurable job before I head out-of-office for a couple of weeks: getting objects prepared for
's teaching sessions, including this lovely wee Bes amulet from
excavations at Saqqara 🤩💙

28/11/2022

Also next Monday, I'll be speaking at 6pm on the statuary of that little-known figure in Egyptian history, King ...

Thanks to
and for organising

28/11/2022

Next Monday in I'm very glad to be able to re-run this workshop session I offered in March, sharing some examples of museum practices
👇👇

Thanks to & for organising!

Egyptology

18/11/2022

Excited to see our 4200 year old granite column (re-inscribed for Ramesses II 3200 years ago) revealed after 4 years crated up - it looks SO much better with new lighting against a dark background! 🤩🤩

10/11/2022

So pleased to welcome Carlo Rindi back to (after 10 years!) on his Marie Curie fellowship to examine using laser-scanning the construction of Graeco-Roman funerary objects - including those in our upcoming exhibition! ✨🤓

08/11/2022

The shabtis return! Our mass display of has just been re-installed. They have a ring-side view of all the exciting developments ... 👀

07/11/2022

Want to learn about Egypt's Third Intermediate Period?

Why not join & I for our Zoom study day on Saturday 19th November?

Tickets here: https://eventbrite.co.uk/e/fractured-kingdom-egypts-third-intermediate-period-tickets-439103870497 - lectures will be recorded and can be accessed after the event.

04/11/2022

A great way to round off - with
friends and
at event celebrating an exhibition on 's childhood co-curated with primary school kids in East London & Amarna, 🥳🇪🇬🇬🇧

26/10/2022

Installation of our show is a chance to re-examine the details disguised by exhibition lighting - here a hybrid panel portrait with a 'hood' decorated with Pharaonic motifs usually associated with cartonnage mummy masks. Both were transformative for the deceased.

24/10/2022

🚨 Ancient evidence for a curse of ...

Amazed I've never heard of this before! On a small stela from the Karnak Cachette, the King’s Son of Kush, Huy, appeals to “my lord, Nebkheprure, I have seen the darkness of your making; (pray) illuminate (it) for me, that I may now see you (again)”

Nebkheprure is the throne name of Tutankhamun, who – through the agency of the royal Ka-spirit – has apparently caused poor Huy to lose his sight, though this could be a metaphor for some other misfortune.
The text is like some other 'penitential' hymns from Deir el-Medina.

Although erroneously described as 'guardian statues' (https://egyptmanchester.wordpress.com/2019/11/17/tutankhamuns-guardian-statues-symbolism-and-meaning/), at least one of the pair is explicitly labelled as 'the royal Ka'.

I love the idea of an official pleading with the (presumably living?) king's Ka.

How has this not entered the narrative??!

20/10/2022

to snapping this crisply carved box (likely for shabti figures) of Ptahmose in June - and spotting it again last week in
's exhibition!

Purchased in Egypt in 1830 by Jean-Francois Champollion. https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010009564

18/10/2022

Carved relief of King Hatshepsut (c. 1473-1458 BCE) offering wine to the god Amun-Ra, from her 'Red Chapel' at Karnak. In return, he gives her 'all life and power'. A pretty sweet deal. 🍇

This is a relatively rare case where Hatshepsut's name and image survive undamaged.

16/10/2022

I very much appreciated the acknowledgement of the persistence of forms in Pharaonic high culture in the exhibition - taking the block statue as an example, from the Middle Kingdom to the Ptolemaic Period - almost 2000 years!

Including a Ptolemaic favourite already pointed out to me by belonging to Padiamunnebnesuttawy from the Karnak Cachette (the subject of my PhD dissertation!) 😍

14/10/2022

Both names of a favourite Pharaoh of mine: Amenemhat III (1831-1786 BCE), in the newly opened exhibition.

His nomen (Amenemhat) on a lintel from Hawara, and his prenomen or throne name (Nimaatre) on the Ramesses II King's List from Abydos.

13/10/2022

to paying homage to the giant quartzite baboons of Thoth, dedicated by Amenhotep III c. 1350 BCE, at Ashmunein in March. A rare case of a complete animal sculpted in colossal size 🐵

12/10/2022

New addition to the library I picked up last night... Congratulations 👏🤓

12/10/2022

The show confirming what most museum staff and visitors already know: that some pieces look much better with exhibition lighting... Here, the king's list from the temple of Ramesses II at Abydos 💡

12/10/2022

Really privileged last night to be able to attend the opening of
- a gorgeous set of displays that raise questions of heritage, ownership and expertise. I, for one, am humbled 🙏👏🇪🇬

11/10/2022

Beautiful detail of a personification from a block from Egypt Exploration Fund excavations at Deir el-Bahri. A recent research enquiry has identified this as likely from the Northern Chamber of Any. What a pleasure to get it out to have a closer look! 😍

04/10/2022

It's a shame I don't understand Danish because this new book on by my friend and colleague looks SUPERB...!

01/10/2022

Superb keynote lecture on Welsh Egyptology from academic titan Prof Alan Lloyd - highlighting that the Samuel Birch revised 1878 edition of Gardner Wilkinson's Manners & Customs is the more richly illustrated, so I'm glad to discover that's the edition I own! 🤩

28/09/2022

Happy to be back on campus today surrounded by the hubbub of students and planning for reopening early next year 🤩

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Manchester
M139PL

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 5pm
Tuesday	10am - 5pm
Wednesday	10am - 5pm
Thursday	10am - 5pm
Friday	10am - 5pm
Saturday	10am - 5pm
Sunday	10am - 5pm

Telephone

0161 275 2648

Website

http://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/yourvisit/galleries/ancientegypt/

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are visiting the World Museum in Liverpool with our Chair Campbell Price (Ancient Egypt and Sudan at The Manchester Museum) to discuss museums, display and interpretation!

Find out more about our scholars: Ahmed Mansour, Mostafa Tolba, Noura Seada, and Zeinab Mahmoud, as well as their work placement here: https://www.ees.ac.uk/news/ees-2022-scholarships

The Egypt Exploration Society thanks the British Council for supporting this programme.

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Saw these at the British museum today. Aren't they fab? Though not as highly decorated as other sarcophagi/sculptures I have seen. NY chance of doing a lecture on changes in sarcophagi.... especially the plain but beautiful late period?

Today is 🦛 - check out this rather angry (protective?) ceramic hippo found in a grave at the site of Hu in Egypt in 1898-9?

Image: DIOS.NEG.230

Today you can see the actual piece in the Ashmolean Museum!
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Hippos don’t live in the Egyptian Nile today. Imagine how much the environment must have changed since this was made.

Lots of ancient artefacts from Egypt include depictions of hippos. Like this bowl from Mahasna (near Abydos) with four walking around its rim!

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Image: AB-MAH.NEG.141

Bowl now in Ancient Egypt and Sudan at The Manchester Museum

Do you have any Egyptian hippos to share? 🤩

( to last year's Twitter thread on )

Listen to EES Chair Campbell Price (Ancient Egypt and Sudan at The Manchester Museum) discuss the 100th anniversary of the discovery of 's tomb, an overview of the soon-to-open , the Great and more on Dan Snow's History Hit podcast!

Listen on your preferred provider or https://play.acast.com/s/dansnowshistoryhit/treasuresofancientegypt

Online Course: An Introduction to

TOMORROW, Dr Carl Graves starts our next course by introducing ancient Egypt from beginning to end. We’ll cover timelines and the landscape of northeast Africa setting the scene for future sessions.

Book now: https://www.ees.ac.uk/Event/online-course-an-introduction-to-ancient-egypt

Explore daily life, monuments, art, burial, and the future of archaeology in with us and guest speaker Dr Campbell Price (Ancient Egypt and Sudan at The Manchester Museum)!

Can't make the live sessions? Classes will be recorded and available to watch (or rewatch) afterwards!

Don't miss out, book now!
https://www.ees.ac.uk/Event/online-course-an-introduction-to-ancient-egypt

If you missed The Egypt Exploration Society's Christmas Spotlight with Campbell Price (Ancient Egypt and Sudan at The Manchester Museum) yesterday, watch it now on YouTube!

This lecture launched our new monthly programme, presenting alternative (occasionally disruptive) dialogues in the broader subject of Egyptian cultural heritage!

Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube Channel and save our playlist of Tuesday Spotlights, so you never miss a video! 👇
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkfdTU5bBwmN4wFpPaYrpEUSzLD20aYAI

EES Christmas Spotlight: Imagining Ancient Egyptian Faces | Dr Campbell Price (Ancient Egypt and Sudan at The Manchester Museum) | TOMORROW 🆓 1pm 🇬🇧 3pm 🇪🇬⁠
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Join us for our first Tuesday Spotlight lecture, considering the popularity of facial reconstruction as a means of bringing an imagined past to life.

ℹ️ https://www.ees.ac.uk/Event/christmas-spotlight-imagining-ancient-egyptian-faces

Cannot join us for the live session tomorrow?

Don't worry, our new programme of monthly Tuesday Spotlight lectures will be presented live at lunchtimes, or available to catch up on later via our YouTube channel!

Register now for a link to the recording👇

Online Lecture: Tiny Egypt: through a macro lens by Julia Thorne 📅 Tuesday 2 November ⏰ 1pm 🇬🇧 2pm 🇪🇬

Take a macro view of the archaeological past with , and explore a world full of hidden details using artefacts from Ancient Egypt and Sudan at The Manchester Museum, Garstang Museum of Archaeology, and Bolton Library and Museum Services.

🎫 https://www.ees.ac.uk/Event/online-lecture-tiny-egypt-ancient-egypt-through-a-macro-lens

Want to get to know the Chair of The Egypt Exploration Society in advance of our AGM in December?

Then check out this article about Dr Campbell Price (Ancient Egypt and Sudan at The Manchester Museum) by InYourArea.co.uk: https://www.inyourarea.co.uk/news/egyptologist-at-manchester-museum-appointed-key-position-in-world-of-archaeology/

If you are an EES member, please make sure to register for our online AGM via our website: https://www.ees.ac.uk/Event/annual-general-meeting-2021

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