2009 Egyptian Study Society Programs

Unless otherwise noted, ESS meetings are held at 7:00 PM on the third Monday of each month in Ricketson Auditorium at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. These meetings are open to all and guests are welcome. We may ask guests for a small, optional donation, usually $2.00, to help us cover costs.


January 20

No speaker scheduled. We will watch sections of a film on the "Lost Pyramid" and then pick it apart. The lecture will include slides from some members who have visited this lost pyramid of Gisa.

February 17

Joni Teeter will present "Sustainable Tourism." We will have a special guest from Egypt.

March 16 (Monday)

Jeanne Nijhowne will present "White Rock, Purple Stone: Roman Quarries in the Eastern Desert."

This lecture will examine how high quality stone from Mons Claudianus and Mons Porphyrites in the Eastern Desert was extracted, transported, and ultimately incorporated into the buildings, monuments, and statues of Imperial Rome. In 1992, Dr. Nijhowne spent 3 months working at Abu Sha'ar, a Roman fort on the beach of the Red Sea. It was part of the industrial network along with the quarries. She visited both Mons Claudianus and Mons Porphyrites and will use her own photos in this presentation.

April 20 (Monday)

Dennis Pricolo will present "The Sea Peoples."

May 18 (Monday)

Robert Bigelow will present "Messages from the Past: Three Recent Developments in Mediterranean Area Archaeology."

Archaeological discoveries in the past two or three decades are changing our perceptions of these topics:

First: How the discovery and interpretation of very early Semitic proto-alphabetic inscriptions in upper Egypt affects the history of our alphabet;

Second: How the evidence of Minoans in the Delta of Egypt and the massive eruption of the Thera (Santorini) volcano potentially affects archaeological timelines all over the eastern Mediterranean;

Third: How the archaeological evidence from Troy now allows us to bring that city into the historical record and perhaps illuminate a bit of Homer‚s Illiad.

This is a somewhat revised version of a talk that was given last August at the combined ESS-CAS meeting.

June 15 (Monday)

David Pepper will present "Egyptomania Through History."

July 20 (Monday) IMAX Theater

Mahmoud Kodier will present "Recent Discoveries at Abu Sir."

August

Joint presentation of ESS and the Colorado Archaeological Society. Topic TBA.

September 21 (Monday)

Dick Harwood will present "The White Desert."

October 19 (Monday)

Floyd Chapman will speak on the work of Lepsius in recording the art of Ancient Egypt and how Floyd has used it in his artwork, to reconstruct temples.

November 16 (Monday)

Patricia Blackwell Gary with Rich Talcott from Astronomy magazine will present "Star gazing in Ancient Egypt."

December

No lecture

 

Past lectures

 
 

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