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A talk by Dr Sally-Ann Ashton
Tuesday 24th March, 3pm
Kanaris Lecture Theatre, The Manchester Museum
Sally-Ann Ashton is curator of the Egyptian collections at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge and has taught African Centred Egyptology in prisons for the past five years, developing a virtual gallery in collaboration with her students. Grounded in empirical research on the [...]

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Last weekend the Sussex Egyptology Society (http://www.egyptology-uk.com/) spent the weekend in the North West of England visiting the Egyptian collections at Bolton, Manchester and Liverpool.
At the Manchester Museum the group visited the galleries, storesĀ  and had a handling session with material from Illahun/Kahun (pictured), with Joyce Tyldesley and myself.
The group also experienced Saturday night in [...]

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