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Ancient Egyptians and their landscape; a history of change, resilience, and relocation With Dr Judith Bunbury
4 lectures over 2 Sunday afternoons
Sunday 18th & 25th October2pm (UK times)
Nilometers monitored the height of the all important inundation waters, priests and astronomers looked to the skies and prayers and rituals were performed in temples the length and breadth of the country, all to try to ensure that Maat would prevail and life would continue in Egypt with the world and cosmos in harmony, but was that always the case?
We have mythologised Ancient Egypt as a time-eternal ‘gift of the Nile’, but this myth conceals a rapidly changing landscape with convulsions of sea-level change, desertification, and Nile flooding and migration. Ancient Egyptians met these challenges, sometimes with despair and at other times with innovation or relocation. Judith’s work at sites across Egypt and Sudan sheds light on the changing landscape and how humans responded to it. These four lectures will showcase sites that reveal (1) the inherited landscape and the Saharan Neolithic, (2) the condensation of disparate communities into the Nile Valley, and (3) Desertification and Delta transition that lead to (4) migration and management of the Nile.
Join us this October for a set of 4 lectures with geo-archaeologist Dr Judith Bunbury as she investigates the reality of the environmental challenges that the Egyptians faced and how they coped when the land they lived in presented new challenges.
Dr Judith Bunbury
Dr Judith Bunbury is a geo-archaeologist investigating landscape and climate change in the archaeological record. Her interest in Nile migration has led to a book on the topic while her investigation of the changing environments in the Sahara have resulted in several Journal articles. Her current work draws lessons from the past that inform our heritage management and in turn our own responses to climate and landscape change.
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