Upcoming Lecture

The Village at Deir el Medina contained the homes and workshops of the craftsmen who built and decorated the tombs in the Valley of the Kings. Records left on papyri, ostraca, and tomb inscriptions have yielded an incredible amount of detail on the daily lives of these people and their families.
Due to the volume of information available, my presentation will be divided into two parts: The first part covers the 18th Dynasty at the village, some of the tombs these craftsmen built, and what kind of workers lived there.
The second part (presented in a later lecture) explores the men and their families who lived and worked in the village during the 19th and 20th Dynasties. It's a journey through time, illustrated with the art, artifacts, and writings of these people who lived some 3,500 years ago.

David Pepper is a retired aerospace engineer with a lifelong interest in Ancient Egypt. He was one of the founders of the Egyptian Study Society (Denver), and was formerly an editor of its publications, The Ostracon, and Scribe's Palette. Over the past 40 years, David has presented many lectures and classes about Ancient Egypt around the Denver-Boulder area. A number of his past lectures are available on the Egyptian Study Society's YouTube Channel.
He was a volunteer docent at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science between 1985 and 2005. He's currently vice-president on the Board of Trustees of The Amarna Research Foundation, a fund-raising organization that supports excavations and conservation projects in Egypt, and is editor of their publication, The Akhetaten Sun. David is especially interested in the Amarna Period and has published two books: Akhenaten's Royal Court: The City at Amarna and its Officials, and After Akhenaten: What happened to his Royal Court? (both are available at Amazon)
David and his wife, Jill, have visited Egypt many times, and have been study leaders on several trips to Egypt.

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