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The Fitzwilliam Museum's collection of Egyptian antiquities is widely regarded as one of the finest in the country and is consulted regularly by scholars from all over the world.
One of its most important pieces is the famous sarcophagus lid of Rameses III, given as a gift by G B Belzoni in 1823. The collection grew in importance towards the end of the 19th century and in the early years of the 20th century, benefitting from the work of Sir Flinders Petrie, the Egypt Exploration Fund and the British School of Archaeology in Egypt. Among other notable benefactors, R G Gayer-Anderson (1943) and Sir Robert Greg (1954) deserve to be singled out, whose bequests to the Museum provided the Egyptian collection with some of its most significant artefacts.
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Glanville Lecture: 23 May 2009
The Glanville Lecture will be given on Saturday 23 May 2009, at 5 pm, in the Zoology Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museums Site (map).
The Glanville Lecturer for 2009 is Dr Jaromir Malek, Editor of the Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts and Keeper of the Archive of the Griffith Institute, Oxford.
His lecture will be entitled A city on the move: Egypt's capital in the Old Kingdom.
Free
Glanville Symposium
As in recent years, the Glanville Lecture will be preceded by a series of talks on topics related to the Lecture. This year's symposium will be entitled "Egypt in the age of the pyramids: new research in the Memphite region" and will be given by international experts on the Old Kingdom in ancient Egypt.
Cost of attending the symposium: £35 (concessions £25).
Booking essential
email: fitzmuseum-egypt@lists.cam.ac.uk
or write to: Glanville Symposium 2009,
Department of Antiquities,
The Fitzwilliam Museum,
Cambridge, CB2 1RB
The Book of the Living
Members of the public have participated in producing paintings and sketches on papyrus to form a Book of the Living. The images can be viewed on-line on this website and allow us to unroll this 'virtual papyrus' without damaging it. We are grateful to everyone who took part, volunteers and participants alike.
This activity, as well as papyrus-making workshops and a series of lectures on ancient Egyptian subjects, accompanied the exhibition of a Book of the Dead entitled 'Passport to the Egyptian Afterlife' (19 June to 16 September 2007).
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Object in Focus: Stela of Amenemhat Nebwy
This painted limestone slab, or stela, belonged to a man named Amenemhat Nebwy, the 'overseer of the house of divine offerings'...