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The Valley of the Kings With Professor Aidan Dodson
5 x weekly lectures. Monday evenings 30th September - 28th October. 7.30-9pm (UK times).
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 28th November.
As Howard Carter, discoverer of the tomb of Tutankhamun, wrote, the very name ‘Valley of the Kings’ is full of romance. Over a period of some four centuries, almost every king of Egypt cut their tomb in this barren wadi on the west bank opposite Luxor, accompanied by some of the cream of Egyptian society – and a few of their pets. Some of the royal tombs are masterpieces of architectural and artistic skill, and were once filled with rich and exquisite funerary equipment, including coffins of solid gold. Yet the inevitable tomb robber divested almost all of them of their riches, and time, floods and man reduced many of the tombs to shadows of their former selves. Over these five evenings we will be tracing the history of the royal valley from its origins to the present day, also considering the great memorial temples that formed an integral part of the provisions made for the posthumous existence of an ancient Egyptian king of the New Kingdom.
Professor Aidan Dodson is author to numerous Egyptology books and articles including The Royal Tombs of Ancient Egypt (Pen & Sword, 2016). Join Aidan for a set of 5 lectures exploring this majestic royal necropolis:
Week 1- Monday 30th September
Into the Valley – Pyramids to Thutmose III
Week 2- Monday 7th October
To Amarna and Back Again – Amenhotep II to Rameses I
Week 3- Monday 14th October
The Tomb of Sethy I
Week 4- Monday 21st October
The Rameside Age – Rameses II to Rameses XI
Week 5 -Monday 28th October
Eclipse to Rediscovery
Professor Aidan Dodson
Aidan Dodson has taught at Bristol University since 1996, and was appointed honorary Professor of Egyptology in 2018. A graduate of Liverpool & Cambridge Universities, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Aidan was Simpson Professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo for spring 2013, and was Chair of Trustees of the Egypt Exploration Society from 2011 to 2016. He is the Chairman of the Egypt Society of Bristol and the author of more than 25 books and 400 articles and reviews on both Egyptology and modern naval history. His latest Egyptological book is Thutmose III & Hatshepsut, Pharaohs of Egypt: their lives and afterlives, due to be published by the American University in Cairo Press around the end of the year.
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