Individual Meetings:

Members (those who have paid the £20 subscription): FREE

Non members and Visitors: As shown


 

Study Day and AGM:

Members (those who have paid the £20 subscription): FREE

Non members and Visitors: £10


 

2025 Meetings:



Saturday 25th January 2025 ~ 2:00 – 4:30pm

Dr Joanne Rowland, Edinburgh University

1st Lecture

Revisiting the Naqada region in the 21st century: approaches, results and experiences on the Naqada Regional Archaeological Survey and Site Management Project. 

This talk will give an insight into various aspects of this project that started back in 2018 under the direction of G. J. Tassie.  Topics include the team’s work on site management, conservation, training, and some preliminary results of excavations and survey at ancient Nubt and in the surrounding area.

 

2nd Lecture

The creatures and features of Djed-hor: contextualising the results of investigations into Djed-Hor’s ‘falcon’ necropolis at Quesna. 

This talk will bring various sources of evidence together, including zoo-archaeological analysis, the structure of the necropolis itself, and recently translated seal impressions, to consider how we can reconstruct activities, the personnel required, the treatment of creatures in life and death, and the deposition and sealing of the galleries.

 

Dr Joanne Rowland has been conducting research on prehistoric and early historic society in Egypt for over 25 years, including through fieldwork, recently directing a project at Palaeolithic and Neolithic Merimde Beni Salama (2013-2024) in the western Delta.  She took up the direction of the Naqada Regional Archaeological Survey and Site Management Project in 2024 and we will hear more about the prehistoric evidence in the region in her talk.  Jo directed a survey project in Minufiyeh Province in the south-central Delta from 2005-2023, which initiated new excavations at Quesna focussing on Ptolemaic-Roman as well as surprising new evidence for the Old Kingdom.  She is also engaged in research into the relationship between prehistoric sites and archaeologists from Quft.  Currently, she is a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, and Chair of the Friends of the Petrie Museum. Previously, she was a Junior-Professor in Egyptian Archaeology at the Free University Berlin, as well as holding postdoctoral positions in Brussels (Royal Museums of Arts and History) and the University of Oxford.  

 

 

 

NEAES Members (those who have paid £20 subscription) FREE - Zoom Codes to follow

 

TICKETS

Entry Price for Non-Members ~ £5.00 (GBP) pay at the door

Zoom tickets can be purchased for £5.00 (GBP) via PayPal

 

Deadline date for Zoom tickets - Thursday 23rd January 2025 ~ 11:00am

 

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Saturday 22nd February 2025 ~ 2:00 – 4:30pm


Face to Face at:-Elvet Hill House, Oriental Museum, Durham, DH1 3TH Doors open at 1:30pm

Plus Zoom hybrid ~ Zoom to open at 1:30pm

 

Micaela Langellotti  - Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, Newcastle University

Life in Egypt under the Romans: (Hi)stories from the Papyri

The sands of ancient Egypt have preserved tens of thousands of papyrus texts, offering a rich repository of historical knowledge.  Beyond the official documents issued by various authorities, these texts provide a unique glimpse into the everyday lives, hopes, worries, and relationships of the people.  This lecture will delve into archival material, including private letters and contracts, to explore the lives of four individuals who lived in Egypt around 2,000 years ago, during the period of Roman rule.  By examining their experiences, we will uncover how their lives, aspirations, and concerns resonate with our own, bridging the gap between the ancient and modern worlds.

 

Micaela Langellotti is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at Newcastle University.  She is a Roman historian and specialises in the social, cultural and economic history of the Roman Empire, with a particular focus on Egypt under Roman rule, and Greek papyrology.  She is the author of Village Life in Roman Egypt.  Tebtunis in the First Century AD (OUP 2020) and the co-editor of Village Institutions in Egypt in the Roman to the Early Arab period (with D.W. Rathbone, OUP 2020).

  

NEAES Members (those who have paid £20 subscription) FREE - Zoom Codes to follow

TICKETS

Entry Price for Non-Members ~ £5.00 (GBP) pay at the door

Zoom tickets can be purchased for £5.00 (GBP) via PayPal

Deadline date for Zoom tickets - Thursday 20th February 2025 ~ 11:00am


 

NEAES 2025 Conference ~ 1st March 2025

Face to Face at:-Elvet Hill House, Oriental Museum, Durham, DH1 3TH Doors open at 9:30am

Plus Teams hybrid ~ Teams to open at 9:30am

10:00am – 5:00pm 

No registration or ticket reservations required

 

NEAES 4th Student Involvement Programme (SIP)

Landscapes of Meaning: Exploring the Multidimensional Environment of Landscapes in Ancient Egypt

Organisers - Ariadne Argyros / Jo Derbyshire / Ahmad Mohammed 

Direct Teams link:-

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZWYyOTRkY2MtZDUyNC00OGU5LWI3NDYtZWYzMTI4ODZhY2E2%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%227250d88b-4b68-4529-be44-d59a2d8a6f94%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22fdedd99b-7000-4ed8-aedb-96fa3ccd62ed%22%7d

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Saturday 8th March 2025 ~ 2:00 – 4:30pm

Dr Joanne Rowland, Edinburgh University

1st Lecture

Revisiting the Naqada region in the 21st century: approaches, results and experiences on the Naqada Regional Archaeological Survey and Site Management Project. 

This talk will give an insight into various aspects of this project that started back in 2018 under the direction of G. J. Tassie.  Topics include the team’s work on site management, conservation, training, and some preliminary results of excavations and survey at ancient Nubt and in the surrounding area.

 

2nd Lecture

The creatures and features of Djed-hor: contextualising the results of investigations into Djed-Hor’s ‘falcon’ necropolis at Quesna. 

This talk will bring various sources of evidence together, including zoo-archaeological analysis, the structure of the necropolis itself, and recently translated seal impressions, to consider how we can reconstruct activities, the personnel required, the treatment of creatures in life and death, and the deposition and sealing of the galleries.

 

Dr Joanne Rowland has been conducting research on prehistoric and early historic society in Egypt for over 25 years, including through fieldwork, recently directing a project at Palaeolithic and Neolithic Merimde Beni Salama (2013-2024) in the western Delta.  She took up the direction of the Naqada Regional Archaeological Survey and Site Management Project in 2024 and we will hear more about the prehistoric evidence in the region in her talk.  Jo directed a survey project in Minufiyeh Province in the south-central Delta from 2005-2023, which initiated new excavations at Quesna focussing on Ptolemaic-Roman as well as surprising new evidence for the Old Kingdom.  She is also engaged in research into the relationship between prehistoric sites and archaeologists from Quft.  Currently, she is a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, and Chair of the Friends of the Petrie Museum. Previously, she was a Junior-Professor in Egyptian Archaeology at the Free University Berlin, as well as holding postdoctoral positions in Brussels (Royal Museums of Arts and History) and the University of Oxford.  

 

 

 

NEAES Members (those who have paid £20 subscription) FREE - Teams Codes to follow

 

TICKETS

Entry Price for Non-Members ~ £5.00 (GBP) pay at the door

Teams tickets can be purchased for £5.00 (GBP) via PayPal

 

Deadline date for Teams tickets - Thursday 6th March 2025 ~ 11:00am

 

PayPal:

Log into your PayPal account and use neaesoc@googlemail.com  as payee, to make your PayPal payment, please click donation

Please make sure you add your e-mail address, so I can send you the Teams Codes.


 

Saturday 22nd March 2025 ~ 2:00 – 4:30pm

Cancelled

 

NEAES Lecture 17th May 2025 ~ 1:00pm – 5:00pm (UK Time)

Please note early start time

Face to Face at:-

Elvet Hill House, Oriental Museum, Durham, DH1 3TH 

Plus Teams hybrid

SPEAKERS:-

1st Angus Graham  -  2nd Ahmed Shams  -  3rd Penny Wilson 

 

The Voices of the Land: Landscapes in Ancient Egypt

 

The three speakers are working on a small book about Landscapes in Ancient Egypt.  We will be discussing what we consider ‘Landscapes’ in the context of Ancient Egypt, what kind of approaches we can use to investigate them and how this informs our understanding of Ancient Egyptian culture in any way.  Our toolkit might include the five senses of a modern person, textual sources from Ancient Egypt, archaeological and environmental data, ethnographic information from those inhabiting the chosen ‘landscapes’.  How can we bring them together (or not) and how can we apply them to our case studies. We will choose specific landscapes such as the Sinai Mountains, Marginal Areas (lakes, salt flats and marshes – northern Egypt), and the floodplain (Delta and Valley areas) and desert edge (Thebes, Abydos, Nubia).

 

Programme:

1:00 pm   Welcome and Opening remarks

1:30 pm   Definitions, Texts and are we making this up?

2:00 pm   Angus Graham: Theban Floodplain – a changing world

2:45 pm   Questions and break

3:00 pm   Ahmad Shams: Sinai mountains – an unchanging world?

3:45 pm   Questions and break

4:00 pm   Penny Wilson – margins, danger and the gods – Northern Lakes, salt pans and desert edge

4:45 pm   Questions and summary

Angus Graham’s research focuses on Nile Valley landscapes and waterscapes again with more than 20 years of experience directing geo-archaeological landscape fieldwork principally in the UNESCO World Heritage region of ancient Thebes (modern day Luxor).  Furthermore, he has experience of working in other areas of the Nile Valley and desert edge and the Western Oases and Nubian Desert as well as limited experience of working in the Delta.  Angus brings expert knowledge in the geomorphological history of the Nile and its annual cycle to the collaboration.

Ahmed Shams is a leading researcher in mapping in Egypt and in particular the mountainous landscapes of the Sinai peninsula, founder of the Sinai Peninsula Research (SPR) ― a 20-year plus field survey and cross-disciplinary and inter-sectoral project using a 14,000 plus points-of-interest GIS database to promote informed regional and local development planning, governance and cultural heritage management in Sinai Peninsula.  Ahmed’s current cross-disciplinary research focuses on mapping, mapmaking & geographical knowledge-making, cartographic archaeology & GIS, landscape, archaeology & politics, and territorialisation in Sinai Peninsula and the Middle East and the Alps. 

Penny Wilson has worked for over 30 years in Egypt focussing on settlements in the floodplain and in marginal areas.  Her longstanding project at Sais in the north-west delta has investigated the vertical stratigraphy of the settlement and surrounding area of the site and its horizontal development over time to understand the 'organic' and non-planned type of settlements in the Delta.  In addition, her survey work at over 100 sites in the Delta has mapped and analysed ancient landscapes allowing us to consider the impact of changing Nile regimes, human interventions over millennia and up to and including the present day in marginal and floodplain areas.  Penny also has limited experience of working in the Nubian deserts to the south of Egypt.

TICKETS

NEAES Members (those who have paid £20 subscription) FREE - Teams Codes to follow

Entry Price for Non-Members ~ £8.00 (GBP) pay at the door

Teams tickets can be purchased for £8.00 (GBP) via PayPal

Deadline date for Teams tickets - Thursday 15th May 2025 ~ 11:00am

 

PayPal:

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Lectures 19th May; 2nd June; 16th June

Please Note for the following three Lit and Phil’s Bicentenary Celebrations events;

These lectures will be a hybrid - In-Person and Zoom/Teams.

Zoom/Teams Codes will be sent out at a later date.

If you wish to attend In-Person’, you will need to register for a place from the Lit and Phil’s Event Page  https://www.litandphil.org.uk/events/

If you wish to attend all 3 lectures, you will need to register for a place 3 separate times.

Scroll through the Event dates to reach 19th May / 2nd June / 16th June.

Click ‘Book on-Line’

Indicate how many tickets you require

Click ‘reserve a spot’

Enter you name and e-mail address

You will receive a confirmation e-mail for each lecture you have selected.

Monday 19th May 2025 ~ time tbc

Lit and Phil’s Bicentenary Celebrations

Penny Wilson

Excavating in Egypt in the 21st Century: Sais

Venue - The Lit and Phil, Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne and also Zoom/Teams


 

Monday 2nd June 2025 ~ time tbc

Lit and Phil’s Bicentenary Celebrations

Gillian Dodds

Howard Carter / Lord Carnarvon – Searching for Tutankhamun 

Venue - The Lit and Phil, Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne and also Zoom/Teams



Monday 16th June 2025 – time tbc

Lit and Phil’s Bicentenary Celebrations

Barbara Atkinson

Egypt Art

Venue - The Lit and Phil, Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne and also Zoom/Teams


 

July 2025 ~ tbc

[Speaker and venue tbc]

 

Saturday 4th October 2025 ~ time tbc

Dr Patryk Chudzik - Assistant Professor at the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw

Study Day - Deir el-Bahri

Venue – Elvet Hill House Oriental Museum, Durham

 

Saturday 15th November 2025 ~ time tbc

Dr Penny Wilson – Durham University

Sais: Development of a Capital City

Plus another speaker tbc

NEAES AGM

Venue - The Lit and Phil, Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne


 

 

** Members only event ~ Handling Session ** tbc