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Old Kingdom Architecture by Peter Phillips
Monday 9th March, 2pm
Mayer Hall, Bebington, The Wirral (nearest train station, Port Sunlight; parking available)
Members £1 Non-members £3
The Wirral Ancient Egypt Society www.waes.org.uk

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I’m just back from a meeting with Dr Ashley Cooke at the World Museum Liverpool where we talked about the reception of the new Egpt gallery – over the half-term week last week the gallery was receiving 7,000 visitors a day so he must have done something right! A week or so ago I gave [...]

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The Museum will be hosting an Ancient Egypt Day School, details as follows:
Saturday 16th May: Daily Life in ancient Egypt: A Glimpse Behind the Scenes
Speakers: Dr Karen Exell,  Dr Steven Snape, Dr Joyce Tyldesley
£35 (£20 concessions, limited nos), course limited to 32 places
Please contact Phyllis Stoddart on 0161 275 2634 for further information, or email [...]

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Work on documenting the Museum collections is continuing, with volunteers working on the sherd
collection, the animal mummies, the predynastic pottery and the jewellery, as well as students looking at the Nubian material for their Museum Studies MA project. I am working with a volunteer on the collection of stelae that came from the Wellcome collection [...]

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