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The Enigmatic Treasure of a Nubian Queen

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Free Hybrid Lecture Event Speaker: Denise M. Doxey, Norma Jean Calderwood Curator of Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Queen Khensa was a Nubian royal and principal wife of King Piankhy, the Kushite ruler (664–653...

The Future of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife

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Free Hybrid Lecture Event Location: Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Speaker: Rune Nyord, Associate Professor and Chair, Art History Department, Emory University Could some of our familiar ideas about the ancient Egyptian...

Monumental Ritual Texts in Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

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Free Hybrid Lecture Event Location: Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Speaker: Christelle Alvarez, Assistant Professor of Egyptology, Brown University The earliest large-scale records of ancient Egyptian religious literature...

Decoding the Pyramid Statues of King Menkaure

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Free Hybrid Lecture Speaker: Florence Dunn Friedman, Visiting Scholar, Department of Egyptology and Assyriology, Brown University King Menkaure’s Fourth Dynasty pyramid temples at Giza were once filled with statues. The surviving statues represent some of...

Mavericks: Three Visionary Pharaohs of Egypt

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Free Hybrid Lecture Speaker: Lawrence M. Berman is John F. Cogan, Jr. and Mary L. Cornille Chair, Art of Ancient Egypt, Nubia, and the Near East, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Hatshepsut, Amenhotep III, and Akhenaten each ruled Egypt for long periods...

Virtual Egypt: 3D Teaching with Museum Collections

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Free Lecture – Online & In Person Speaker: Rita Lucarelli, Associate Professor of Egyptology, Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures; Faculty Curator of Egyptology, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley...

The Daily Lives of Ancient Egyptian Artists

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Free Public Lecture – Online & In Person Hana Navratilova, Fellow, Royal Historical Society, UK; Supernumerary Fellow, University of Oxford, Harris Manchester College Jaroslav Černý (1898–1970) was a distinguished Egyptologist known for his groundbreaking...

Murder, Poetry, and Scribes in Ancient Egypt

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Free Public Lecture – Online & In Person Margaret Geoga, Assistant Professor of Egyptology, The University of Chicago Advance registration recommended for in-person and online attendance. Free event parking at 52 Oxford Street Garage. Register for in...

Worshiping the Ancestors in Egypt’s Tell Edfu

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Free Public Lecture – Online & In Person Nadine Moeller, Professor of Egyptology, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Yale University Tell Edfu, in southern Egypt, is an ancient Egyptian city that was occupied for nearly 3,000 years...

Forever Is Now: Contemporary Art at the Pyramids of Giza

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Free Lecture Event – Online & In Person Speaker: Nadine Abdel Ghaffar, Founder & Curator, CulturVator|Art D’Égypte Forever Is Now is a contemporary art exhibition at the 4500-year-old UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Pyramids of Giza. Against the backdrop...