It’s the last day of the International Egyptology Congress, which has been running since last Wednesday, on the island of Rhodes in Greece, with five simultaneous sessions of papers all day every day, and plenary sessions by eminent Egyptologists. There are over 500 delegates attending from all over the world, speaking on everything from recent [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Wednesday 28th May – Xth International Congress of Egyptologists
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May 21st – Celebrating the Two Brothers
Posted in Curator's Diary on May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We hosted the Egypt Day School at the Museum on Saturday 17th May, on the Tomb of the Two Brothers, to celebrate their 100th anniversary in the Manchester Museum collection, with an excellent attendance. Papers were given on the political and cultural background to the Middle Kingdom, as well as on work carried out on the [...]
Wednesday 14th May – Kids and Copts
Posted in Curator's Diary on May 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On Saturday Andrea, Curator of Community Exhibitions, and myself, met with the Manchester Museum Youth Board to talk about their ideas about the ancient world, in particular Egypt, Human Remains and the proposed content of the new galleries. The teenagers presented an excellent critique of the current galleries, and went on to discuss at length [...]
Friday 9th May – Project Team meeting
Posted in Curator's Diary on May 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We had a Project Team meeting this afternoon, where the core staff working on the gallery redevelopment project met to catch up on how the research year is coming along. The Project Team consists of myself as the Egypt/Sudan curator, the Curator of Archaeology, Bryan, the Exhibitions Designer, Jeff, the Finance Manager (very important!), Louise, [...]
Research into Egypt and the Sudan at Manchester University
Posted in Research projects on May 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There are numerous ongoing research projects into Egypt and the Sudan, ancient and modern, at Manchester University, which the Museum showcases in one way or another, and which will contribute to the content development of the new Egypt/Archaeology gallery. For example, current research projects include the geomorphology of the Nile Vallery, analysis of fat residues [...]
Ancient Egypt Summer School
Posted in Egypt events at the Manchester Museum on May 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Monday 23-Friday 27 June
Organised by the Manchester Museum and the KNH-Centre for Biomedical Egyptology, University of Manchester.
Book on 0161 275 3274 http://www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/coursespublic/
For further details, contact Dr Joyce Tyldesley (joyce.tyldesley@manchester.ac.uk)
Tuesday 6th May
Posted in Curator's Diary on May 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Back in after the Bank Holiday on what feels like the first day of summer. Spent the day setting up the Egypt at the Manchester Museum blog, refining the Manchester Museum – Ancient Egypt Facebook Group with my volunteer Shawn, and arranging to talk to the Youth Board at the Museum on Saturday about the plans [...]
The Egypt galleries at the Manchester Museum
Posted in Egypt gallery redevelopment on May 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The ancient Egypt galleries at the Manchester Museum are the most popular of all galleries in the Museum. Visit during school termtime and you will find groups of eight-year olds posing as hieroglyphs (!) or learning about the life of the temple singer, Asru; visit at the weekend and you will find the galleries full [...]
Covering the mummies
Posted in Egyptian mummies on May 6, 2008 | 165 Comments »
Last week, the unwrapped mummy of Asru, and the partially wrapped mummy of Khary, and the loaned child mummy from Stonyhurst College, were covered. The covering was carried out in order that the human remains be treated with respect and to keep the bodies on display in line with the Manchester Museum Human Remains policy (http://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/reportspolicies/fileuploadmax10mb,120796,en.pdf). [...]
