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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.
Glanville Lecture 2010
This year's Glanville Lecture is entitled
‘The Maatian Ideal of Social Justice in Ancient Egypt: A Classical African Conception’
The lecture will be given by Dr Maulana Karenga, professor of Africana Studies at California State University, Long Beach, on Saturday 9 October 2010.
More details will be posted here as they become available.
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'...