At our March meeting (1st March, IN PERSON), Dr Kathryn Piquette and Mick Oakey will give a talk on "New Research on the Making of the Narmer Palette" (1/5) #egyptology #ancientEgypt #NarmerPalette #StoneCarving

At our February meeting (Sunday 1st February, ONLINE via Zoom) we welcome Dr Mélanie Flossmann-Schütze who will give a talk on "Animal cult in Tuna el Gebel: the animal necropolis and the priest settlements in Ptolemaic times" (1/5) #egyptology #ancientEgypt #TunaElGebel #necropolis #ancientHistory

Happy new year! For our first meeting of 2026 (Sunday 11th January, ONLINE via Zoom) we are pleased to welcome back Professor Penny Wilson, who will give a talk "All the King’s Men and Women: putting the people into Sais" (1/5) #egyptology #ancientEgypt #sais #ancientHistory #history

For our last meeting of this year (Sunday 7th December, ONLINE via Zoom) we will be joined by Dr Francisco Martin-Valentin who will give a talk on "The Discoveries in the Tomb of Vizier Amen-Hotep Huy" (1/4) #egyptology #ancientEgypt #amenhotepIII #ancientHistory #history

On Sunday we are pleased to welcome back Dr Vincent Oeters (2nd November, IN PERSON), who will give a talk titled "More than a harpist's song: a musical scene in the tomb of Tatia at Saqqara" (1/6) #egyptology #ancientEgypt #saqqara #archaeology #ancientHistory

For our October meeting (Sunday 5th, ONLINE via Zoom) we welcome back Dr Campbell Price who will give a talk on "The Afterlives of Senenmut" (1/5) #egyptology #ancientEgypt #senenmut #hatshepsut #ancientHistory

For our September meeting (7th September, IN PERSON), we are delighted to welcome Professor Aidan Dodson, who will give a talk on "The Libyan Pharaohs" (1/5)

Our August meeting (Sunday 3rd, ONLINE via Zoom) will feature Dr Jacquelyn Williamson giving a talk on "Nefertiti's Sun Temple: Queenship and Death at Amarna" (1/5) #egyptology #ancientEgypt #amarna #nefertiti #ancientHistory

We are really pleased to welcome back Lucia Gahlin, who will join us at our July Meeting in Witham (6th July, IN PERSON) to give a talk on "The Colourful Tombs of Beni Hasan" (1/5) #egyptology #ancientEgypt #ancientEgypt #archaeology #BeniHasan

For our June meeting (Sunday 1st, ONLINE via Zoom), we are delighted to welcome back Dr Peter Brand, who will give a talk on "The 2025 season of the Karnak Great Hypostyle Project" (1/5) #ancientEgypt #egyptology #ancientHistory #archaeology #Karnak

If you would like to hear all about the recent discovery of the tomb of pharaoh Thutmose II, we will be hosting Dr Piers Litherland, the UK field director, at our May meeting in Witham (11th May, IN PERSON) (1/4) #ancientEgypt #egyptology #ancientHistory #archaeology #ThutmoseII #westernWadis

At our April meeting (Sunday 6th, ONLINE via Zoom), Dr Nicholas Brown will give a talk on "The Valley of the Kings: Its Life and Afterlife" (1/5) #ancientEgypt #egyptology #ancientHistory #valleyOfTheKings

Dr Loretta Kilroe will join us at our March meeting in Witham (2nd March, IN PERSON) to give a talk on "The Giraffe and its Place in Symbolic Vocabulary in the Kingdom of Kush" (1/5) #ancientEgypt #egyptology #ancientHistory #kush #giraffe

At our February meeting (Sunday 2nd, ONLINE via Zoom) we welcome back Professor Lloyd Llwellyn-Jones, who will give a talk on "The Cleopatras: the Forgotten Queens of Egypt" (1/5) #ancientEgypt #egyptology #ancientHistory #cleopatra #ptolemy

Our first meeting of 2025 (Sunday 5th of January, ONLINE via Zoom) will feature Paula Veiga giving a talk titled "Green Osiris: exploring some aspects of Ancient Egyptian medicine" (1/5) #egyptology

For our December meeting (1st December, ONLINE via Zoom), Professor Rosalie David will join us to give a talk on "Religious Ritual in the Temple of Seti I at Abydos". Guest places for this talk are already sold out, but EEG members will have received an access link. (1/4) #egyptology

Here's a great starter pack of Egyptology posters on bluesky! Thanks for including us, @archaeocarrie.bsky.social.

Really enjoyed speaking to the @essexegyptology.bsky.social last weekend! 🤩 I have a feeling that we may have found one of those lost places too… 🤔

Dr. Carl Graves will join us at our November meeting (3rd November, IN PERSON) to give a talk on "Searching for the Lost Cities of Egypt" (1/4) #egyptology

Our October meeting (Sunday 6th, ONLINE via Zoom) will feature Paige Steen giving a talk on "The Bowl in the Mastaba: Structural Deposits in the Medieval Nile Valley" (1/5) #egyptology

For our September meeting (Sunday 1st September, IN PERSON) we are pleased to welcome Professor Aidan Dodson, who will give a talk on "The Modern Resurrection of Thutmose III and Hatshepsut" (1/5) #ancientEgypt #egyptology #hatesheput #ThutmoseIII #history

On August 4th (ONLINE via Zoom) we will be joined by Dr Nicky Nielsen, who will give a talk "Excavating the City of the Snake Goddess: Tell Nabasha" (1/5)

At our July meeting (Sunday 7th July, IN PERSON) we welcome Dr. Wolfram Grajetzki, who will give a talk on "The Theban Cemetery before the New Kingdom" (1/5) #egyptology

On June 2nd (ONLINE via Zoom) we are pleased to welcome Professor Peter Brand, who will give a talk "Ramesses II and the Hittite Empire: War and Peace in the Late Bronze Age" (1/5) #egyptology

For our May meeting (Sunday 12th May, IN PERSON) we explore the fascinating world of Deir el Medina with Suzanne Bojtos (1/4) #egyptology

There's still time to register for our talk tomorrow, if (like me) you'd like to learn more about this fascinating Egyptian archive from Abydos!

At our April meeting (Sunday 7th April, ONLINE via Zoom) Dr. Nora Shalaby will give a talk on "The Abydos Temple Paper Archive Project" (1/5) #egyptology

At our next meeting (Sunday 3rd March, IN PERSON) we are pleased to welcome back Dr. Kathryn Piquette to give a talk "From the Narmer Palette to the Palermo Stone: Digital documenation of ancient stone carving" (1/5) #egyptology

Reminder: our event with Dr. Bernadette Brady talking about "The Moon in Ancient Egypt" is coming up this Sunday! There's still time to sign up 🌝

For our February talk (Sunday 4th February, ONLINE via Zoom), we welcome Dr Bernadette Brady to talk about "The Moon in Ancient Egypt: A Journey from Henchman to King-maker, to a God-enabler" (1/5) #egyptology

Correction: this talk from Dr. Ejsmond is coming up this Sunday, 7th January - sorry about that! (Thanks @oldblackcrow.bsky.social for pointing out my mistake - JP.)

For our first meeting of the year (Sunday Jan 5th, ONLINE via Zoom), Dr. Wojciech Ejsmond returns to the EEG to talk about The Warsaw Mummy Project. (1/5)

At our December 3rd meeting (ONLINE via Zoom), Dr Essam Nagy will give a talk on "The Chapel of Osiris-Ptah Neb-ankh" (1/5) #egyptology

In June Dr Ziad Morsy gave us a fascinating talk about the types of ships and boats in ancient Egypt, exploring the archaeological, iconographic, and written evidence of ancient Egyptian boatbuilding traditions. Detailed write-up: www.essexegyptology.co.uk?page_id=2473 (thanks Michael) #egyptology

In April Dr Wojciech Ejsmond, Director of the Gebelein Archaeological Project, joined us to talk through his work over the last ten years in Gebelein. You can read our write-up here (see the download link at the top): www.essexegyptology.co.uk?page_id=2384 - thanks Rowena! #egyptology #gebelein

We'll mostly post news about our events here, but we'll also share members' posts and other interesting news and stories about ancient Egypt. #ancientEgypt #egyptology

Hello Bluesky! We are a local Egyptology group based in Essex but reaching out to the wider world of Egyptology. We host monthly lectures (alternating between online and in-person), study days and museum visits. #introduction #ancientEgypt