WAMCAES - An Afternoon of Ancient Egypt

Public Lecture | Updated 1 decade ago

WAMCAES Lecture Series 2014
Two illustrated lectures by Heather Tunmore 
Western Australian Museum Honorary Associate 
Epigrapher: Michigan University Abydos Middle Cemetery project 

Program 

1.00 - 2.00 Biodiversity for eternity
2.00 – 2.30 Tea break (15 minutes) -provided 
2.30 -3.30 Sun, Sand, Mosquitoes and the Dead, revisited 

Biodiversity for Eternity 

According to tomb paintings and reliefs, Egypt was a land of plenty. 

For thousands of years the elite of Ancient Egypt decorated their tomb walls with paintings and carvings including many reflecting Egypt’s biodiversity. From lavish amounts of produce being taken into the afterlife, scenes portraying the afterlife’s abundant harvest and vintage, waterways crammed with an amazing variety of fish and birds caught in huge nets, hunting scenes in the desert through to details of butterflies hovering in mid air and foxes tangled in thickets, these images of abundance reflect the ideal natural Egyptian world. 

Digging in the Middle Cemetery at Abydos and exploring the British Museum collections 

The Middle Cemetery at Abydos has been the focus of research for over a century. As the British Museum exhibition Secrets of the Afterlife demonstrated, objects can be found around the world. The British Museum collections include Abydos items collected by Henry Salt before 1835. This lecture combines images taken during recent excavation seasons, considering the processes of caring for material found, and the results of recent visits to the British Museum to examine objects thought to come from the same tombs as those currently being studied. 

VENUE: The Tunnel, Western Australian Museum - Perth 
ENTRY FEE: payable at the door, doors open from 12.30 
WAMCAES Members, Friends & Concessions $5; Non-members $10 
PLEASE BOOK IF ATTENDING: (Mon-Friday 9am-5pm) Moya Smith – moya.smith@museum.wa.gov.au, (08) 9212 3722.

• WA Museum Boola Bardip

  Sat 10 May 2014

  1:00pm – 3:30pm