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Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society
05/07/21
ON June 5, Christian Knoblauch, from Swansea University, spoke to the Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society on “The Middle Kingdom border with Kush”. He has made excavations at Uronarti, an 1800s BC fortress in Nubia with 10m high, 7m thick brick ...
31/05/21
ON May 8, Hilary Wilson spoke to members of the Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society on “The Aegean connection: trade and tribute”. A member of the Southampton Ancient Egypt Society, she stood in at the last minute when the advertised lecturer ...
25/01/21
ON January 9, Stephanie Boonstra, who is in charge of the renowned Egypt Exploration Society’s archive, took nearly 100 members of the Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society through some of her favourite items from more than 140 years. The ...
Historic tree felled at Townlands
11/04/14
A lime tree thought to be 200 years old has been felled in readiness for the redevelopment of Henley's hospital.
15/02/21
ON Saturday, Dr Hana Navratilova, of Reading University, showed members of the Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society how ancient Egyptian visitors to temple, tomb or travel-route sites left their own version of social media comment in ...
08/02/21
ON January 23, Dr Massimiliano Nuzzolo, from Warsaw, showed his latest research via Zoom to almost 100 members of the Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society. His team at the sun temple of the 6th Dynasty Pharaoh Niuserra (near the ...
10/05/21
ON Saturday, April 17, Professor Stuart Tyson Smith gave a talk to the Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society called “Egyptian or Nubian?” He debunked 19th/early 20th century theories that ancient Egypt was a civilising influence ...
08/03/21
IT was all beer and… On Saturday, February 20 Dr Debbie Vischak, from Princeton University in New York, gave a virtual Zoom tour for members of the Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society of part of the ancient religious site of ...
22/03/21
TO tattoo or not to tattoo… On Saturday, March 6 Dr Anne Austin discussed the practice of tattooing. She started with the view of the first Egyptologists that tattoos were found only on ladies of ill-repute. This was based ...
28/12/20
ON Saturday, December 12, Dr Chris Naunton, TV presenter, author, Egyptologist and new president of the Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society, gave his inaugural lecture to a fully booked Zoom audience on “Cleopatra: tomb, ...
08/06/20
ON Saturday, May 23, Dr Paolo Del Vesco spoke to members of the Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society from Italy via Zoom. He described tombs found by the joint Dutch-Italian mission at Saqqara, just south of the Step ...
The Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society
30/11/20
THE Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society’s next talk will be on Saturday, November 28 at 2pm. It is called “Not an empty place” and is by Professor José-R. Pérez-Accinoand. It is about the latest research at the ...
29/06/20
EGYPTOLOGY is being provided online by the Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society during the coronavirus lockdown. The lecture on June 13 was called “Egyptian southern frontier: dynasty 12 governors” and was ...
11/05/20
THERE are no plans for the Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society to resume its monthly meetings under the current situation but Egyptology is still being provided. On April 25 Nick Kiff gave an online ...
26/10/20
EGYPTOLOGY is still being provided online by the Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society. The October 10 lecture was called “Princesses, princes and ‘royal ornaments’ in an Egyptian tomb” and was ...
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