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Upcoming Lectures

Monday, April 22, 7:00 p.m.
In-Person Location:
NEW!
Hampden Hall
Englewood Civic Center, 2nd Floor
1000 Englewood Pkwy, Englewood, CO 80110


Speaker: Dr. Aidan Dodson
Title: "The Funerary Monuments of Hatshepsut and Senenmut"

The lecture will be given both in-person as well as an online Zoom presentation.
To attend the lecture online in Zoom, please click here:
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Abstract:

"The Funerary Monuments of Hatshepsut and Senenmut"

The monuments created to ensure the posthumous wellbeing of Hatshepsut and Senenmut are of considerable interest. Those of the female pharaoh are the earliest well-preserved examples of a New Kingdom royal funerary complex, and can be seen as both the starting point of later developments, and incorporating some looks back to earlier practice. The monuments of Senenmut, on the other hand, have many unique elements, and include the first known astronomical ceiling, nearly two centuries before such a feature would appear in a royal sepulchre. They also included a sarcophagus that was an almost an exact twin of that of Hatshepsut – perhaps a hint at the true nature of the much-debated relationship between the two individuals.

About the Speaker:
Dr. Aidan Dodson


Dr Aidan Dodson is honorary full Professor of Egyptology at the University of Bristol, where he has taught since 1996, and was Chairman of the Egypt Exploration Society from 2011 to 2016. He studied at Durham, Liverpool and Cambridge Universities, UK, being awarded his PhD by the latter in 1995. He is the author of some thirty books, with Thutmose III & Hatshepsut, Pharaohs of Egypt: their lives and afterlives due to be published by the American University in Cairo Press in the fall of 2024.

More About the Zoom experience:

To attend this month's lecture remotely, please click here to enter the Zoom conference:

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No Preregistration Needed! If you would like to attend in Zoom, please download the Zoom app to a desktop, laptop, iPad or phone, well BEFORE the presentation. (It does take a little time to install).

We encourage people to dress for the occasion! When else are you going to wear that fez, fedora, galabeya, pith helmet, hijab, uraeus, nemes headdress, or smoking jacket? So if you like, dress like an Egyptian, Egyptologist, explorer, bon vivant or 'ne'er-do-well'.

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