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
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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).
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TICKETS
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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:-
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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
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Deadline date for Teams tickets - Thursday 6th March 2025 ~ 11:00am
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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
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Entry Price for Non-Members ~ £8.00 (GBP) pay at the door
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Deadline date for Teams tickets - Thursday 15th May 2025 ~ 11:00am
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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.
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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 ~ 10:30am – 4:30pm (UK Time)
Venue – Face to Face at - Elvet Hill House, Oriental Museum, Durham, DH1 3TH
Plus Teams hybrid
Dr Patryk Chudzik - Assistant Professor at the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw
Study Day - The Story of Deir el-Bahri
Programme:-
10:30 – 11:30
Lecture 1:
The rise of Deir el-Bahri sacred space: from the Old Kingdom to the time of Amenhotep I
11:30 – 11:45
Break
11:45 – 12:45
Lecture 2:
Masterpieces of ancient Egyptian architecture: The royal Temples of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III at Deir el-Bahri
12:45 – 1:45
Lunch Break
Bring your own lunch
An opportunity to visit the Oriental Museum to view the Deir el-Bahri relief
1:45 – 2:45
Lecture 3:
From decline to restoration: Deir el-Bahri in the late 18th Dynasty and the Ramesside period
2:45 – 3:00
Break
3:00 – 4:00
Lecture 4:
Post-New Kingdom history of Deir el-Bahri
4:00 – 4:30
Questions
TICKETS
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Deadline date for Teams tickets - Thursday 2nd October 2025 ~ 11:00am
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Saturday 15th November 2025 ~ 10:50 – 5:00pm (UK Time)
NEAES Lectures and AGM
Plus Teams hybrid
Literary and Philosophical Society, 23 Westgate Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 1SE
For Location see https://www.google.co.uk/maps
Programme:
10:50 - Welcome and Opening remarks
11:00 - 12:15 Penny Wilson - Sais: Reconstructing the city with people, buildings and cobras
Lunch Break – bring your own lunch
12:30 – 1:45 NEAES AGM
2:00 – 3:00 Rennan Lemos - What’s in your make-up? Elephants, baboons and pastoralism in Nubia
Break
3:15 – 3:45 Raffle
3:45 – 4:45 Penny Wilson and Rennan Lemos – Egyptian Art
4:45 – Q&A
Lecture 1
Penny Wilson - Emeritus Professor, Department of Archaeology, Durham University
Sais: Reconstructing the city with people, buildings and cobras
After nearly 30 years of working at Sais, what can we actually say about the Royal City of Dynasty 26 (664-525 BCE)? How did it look? What kinds of monumental buildings were in it? Who were the people who ran the country and the city? Who were the gods? By bringing together the different kinds of archaeological evidence it is possible to begin to reconstruct the destroyed city in order to understand the changes that took place in Egypt during the Saite period and the network of economic, social and religious connections centred on Sais. In the words of the people, kings, gods and archaeologists the aim is to recreate a city that was dispersed all over the world and that sank beneath the soil.
Penny Wilson
Penny has been directing work at Sais since 1997 and has recently retired from the Department of Archaeology at Durham in order to bring together the fieldwork reports for the site and to assess what the work there has discovered. Penny is also Field Director for the EES Delta Survey where they have covered the north and western Delta and now hope to move to the Eastern area. Naturally, this work will also be the focus for Penny’s future research and writing.
Lecture 2
Rennan Lemos - Assistant Lecturer, Department of Archaeology, Durham University
What’s in your make-up? Elephants, baboons and pastoralism in Nubia
Ancient Egyptian make-up has been extensively analysed using a range of scientific techniques since the 1930s. Recent studies on Egyptian kohl suggest that recipes varied greatly throughout Egyptian history, incorporating a wide array of minerals that were carefully procured and processed. These analyses have also indicated the use of plant- and animal-based binders, though their precise nature remained unidentified until now. In this talk, Rennan will present the results of the first scientific analysis of ancient Nubian make-up samples, which point to culturally specific recipes. As part of this project, Rennan applied proteomics to make-up in the Nile Valley for the first time, yielding surprising insights into the exact binders used in Nubian make-up. These findings offer new perspectives on pastoralist lifeways and trade networks across ancient Northeast Africa.
Rennan Lemos
Before joining the Department of Archaeology at Durham, Rennan lectured in Egyptian and Sudanese archaeology at the University of Cambridge, where he also held a research appointment at Emmanuel. Rennan additionally held a research position in Germany, where he taught both undergraduate and graduate students. He has worked continuously in Egypt and Sudan for over a decade. He currently serves as Assistant Director of the Sanam Temple Project, through which he has led excavations at a temple built by Taharqa in the Fourth Nile Cataract region, in collaboration with New York University. In collaboration with Sudan’s National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums (NCAM), Rennan is also co-direct a field project on the 18th Dynasty tomb of Djehutyhotep, which was relocated from Lower Nubia to the Sudan National Museum in Khartoum during the UNESCO Nubian campaign. Rennan has also overseen excavations at a large Kerma cemetery at Ginis East, North Sudan. In Egypt, he has excavated at Amarna and the Theban Necropolis (modern-day Luxor), where he remains actively involved in fieldwork.
Lecture 3
Penny Wilson and Rennan Lemos
Egyptian Art
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Deadline date for Teams tickets - Thursday 13th November 2025 ~ 11:00am
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TBC
** Members only event ~ Handling Session ** tbc