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2026 Meetings:
Saturday 7th February 2026 ~ 2:00 – 4:30pm
(UK Time) doors to open at 1:30pm
Face to Face at:-
Elvet Hill House, Oriental Museum, Durham, DH1 3TH
Plus Teams hybrid ~ Teams to open at 1:30pm
Lenna Lyons - PhD student at Durham University - New Kingdom Gold and the Idea of Value
Despite the vast interest in Egyptian gold artefacts, the current perception of gold value in ancient Egypt is heavily biased by our modern economic and cultural influences. Deconstructing these preconceived views is essential to understanding gold’s place in Egyptian culture. Gold artefacts at the Oriental Museum can help to shed light on stylistic trends that emerge during the New Kingdom as well as gold’s value and how it was perceived in the professions of craftworkers.
Lenna Lyons is a PhD student at Durham University with an interest in gold working and the profession of goldworkers. She has a background in History where she studied at West Virginia University, and has just completed her Masters in Archaeology at Durham University.
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Deadline date for Teams tickets - Thursday 5th February 2026 ~ 11:00am
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NEAES Lectures 7th March 2026 ~ 9:00am - 12:30pm (UK Time)
Face to Face at:-
Dawson Building, Archaeology Department, Science Site, Lecture room D110 Map
Plus Teams hybrid
Programme
9:00am – 10:00am
Talk 1: Francis Gotto - Durham University
Making the Most of the Sudan Archive at Durham University
Francis Gotto is Archivist in the University Library and Collections. He will discuss the Sudan Archive held at Durham University, which has its 70th Anniversary at Durham next year. He will explain the purpose and future development of the archive.
10:00am – 10:10am – Break
10:10am – 11:10am
Talk 2: Natasha Rai, University of Cambridge
Old Kingdom Buhen: Egyptian-Nubian interactions in the Nubian landscapes
Natasha Rai has recently passed her PhD viva at the University of Cambridge. Her thesis, which focused on the Old Kingdom town of Buhen, has considerably advanced our knowledge of the site, opening space for new perspectives on the interaction between Egyptian and Nubians in the early moment of contact. Ms Rai is currently an Affiliated Lecturer in ancient Egyptian language and archaeology at the University of Cambridge.
11:10am – 11:20am – Break
11:20am – 12:20pm
Talk 3: Mohamed Saad, National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums, Sudan
Witnessing the Death of History
Mohamed Saad is senior inspector at National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums of Sudan (NCAM). An archaeologist and bioarchaeologist with extensive experience throughout Sudan, Mohamed is currently the head of NCAM’s M. Bolheim Bioarchaeological Laboratory.
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NEAES Lectures 9th May 2026 ~ 2:00 - 5:00pm (UK Time)
Face to Face at:-
Elvet Hill House, Oriental Museum, Durham, DH1 3TH doors to open at 1:30pm
Plus Teams hybrid ~ Teams to open at 1:30pm
Mohamed Kenawi is a Research Associate at the School of Archaeology and Ancient History University of Leicester
Programme:
2:00pm:
Lecture 1: Recent investigations in the Western Nile Delta, Kom al-Ahmer and Kom Wasit.
The year 2026 marks the fourteenth year of an interdisciplinary project, started in 2012, and dedicated to the study of the interconnected sites of Kom al-Ahmer and Kom Wasit (ancient Metelis). This investigation seeks to shed light on the historical and archaeological significance of the Western Nile Delta, while addressing key questions surrounding ancient communities, including patterns of human adaptation, religious life, and daily practices. The lecture will examine these settlements from the Late Dynastic through the Late Roman period and early Islamic one.
Recent excavations in 2025 and study season in spring 2026 have further enriched our understanding of these sites, uncovering sections of an early Roman necropolis as well as a significance workshop dating to the Late Dynastic period.
Break
3.15 pm:
Lecture 2: Living Archaeology in Middle Egypt and the Case of Deir al-Ganadla
The ongoing documentary efforts carried out by the Regions in Flux project focus on two different regions in Egypt to make obscure heritage sites more widely known. Therefore, a higher number of researchers, experts, and students can use these data and enjoy the heritage in a different way.
This lecture will present some of the collected data, focusing on the transformation of the landscape in Middle Egypt. Many tens of ancient Egyptian, Hellenistic, and Roman sites were inhabited, converted to Christianity, and in some cases to Islamic sites. Continuous changes in the landscape are still happening today.
Particular attention will be given to Deir al-Ganadla, an example of a unique quarry church in the Asyut region, on which a dedicated new book has recently been published.
Mohamed Kenawi is a Research Associate at the School of Archaeology and Ancient History University of Leicester. He was a Researcher and Training Manager at the School of Archaeology University of Oxford for the Endangered Archaeology of the Middle East and North Africa project. He was Head Researcher (2011-16) followed by Acting Director (2016-17) of the Hellenistic Centre of Bibliotheca Alexandrina. He taught at the American University in Cairo and at Catania University. He has participated in various archaeological missions in Libya, Italy and Egypt among them those at Kom al-Ahmer/Kom Wasit Athribis Dionysias and Manqbad. He currently collaborates on projects with Padua University in Italy and Tübingen University in Germany.
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July 2026 ~ TBA
Date and Venue tbc
Saturday 10th October 2026 ~ 2:00 – 5:00pm
Hana Navratilova,
Lecture 1: ‘How many lives for a pyramid?’ History of the pyramid fields at Memphis
Lecture 2: Graffiti at Meidum: Builders, Scribes, and Politics
Venue tbc
November 2026 ~ TBA
Date and Venue tbc