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Osiris: Myth and Monuments
With Dr Chris Naunton
4 lectures delivered over 2 afternoons. Sunday 6th & 13th April 2025 2pm UK time
We love to see you for the live lectures, but if you have to miss one, don't worry, you can of course catch up (or watch again) at your leisure via the recordings. You will have access to the recorded lectures for a whole month after the last live lecture. Recordings will be available until 13th May.
This set of four talks will explore the monument and the myths that were so central to the Egyptians’ traditions and legends of kingship, death and eternal resurrection.
In 1903 the archaeologists Flinders Petrie and Margaret Murray made an extraordinary discovery to the east of the famous temple of Sety I at Abydos. At a level below ground they found a building constructed of huge blocks of granite, limestone and sandstone – megaliths – far larger than were usually used in Egyptian monuments. Numerous cartouches of Sety I suggest this was an extension of his monument, and the decoration resembling texts and images from tombs in the Valley of Kings in an entrance corridor have led to the conclusion that it is a funerary monument although not a tomb – perhaps a cenotaph. We now know it as the Osireion, and in combination with the temple it seems to have been a unique and elaborate manifestation of the king’s union, in death, with Osiris.
So join us for a set of 4 fascinating lectures delivered over two afternoons that will take us into the the realm of Kings and Gods and to the very heart of the mysteries of life and death itself!
- Lecture 1: The myth of Osiris
- Lecture 2: The journey to the next life
- Lecture 3: Abydos and the tomb of a god
- Lecture 4: The Osireion
Dr Chris Naunton
Chris Naunton is an Egyptologist, writer and broadcaster and author of Searching for the Lost Tombs of Egypt and Egyptologists’ Notebooks. He has presented numerous television documentaries, including The Man Who Discovered Egypt (BBC4 2012), Secrets of King Tut’s Treasures (Channel 5, 2018) and Egypt’s Lost Pyramid (Channel 4, 2019). He was Director (CEO) of the Egypt Exploration Society from 2012 to 2016 and President of the International Association of Egyptologists from 2015 to 2019. He is Director of The Robert Anderson Trust.
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