The term has started at Manchester University and with it has come the rain and thousands of students. The new intake for the MSc in Biomedical and Forensic Egyptology, taught at the KNH-Centre, has arrived, and I will be giving them some introductory lectures on ancient Egypt. In addition, research enquiries have increased as students [...]
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Curator’s Diary – Tuesday 30th September
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Curator’s diary, 8th September 2008: CIPEG conference, Hannover
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I have just returned from the CIPEG conference in Hannover, an international meeting of Egyptology curators, organised by Christian Loeben at the August Kestner Museum. The conference attendees gave papers on their museums and exhibitions, and included Emily Teeter from the Oriental Institute, Chicago, talking about their temporary exhibition programme, Mohamed Abdel Fattah (Museum Sector, [...]
