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The Modern Resurrection of Tutankhamun: A Book Talk with Prof. Aidan Dodson
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Mon, Nov 7, 2022
6 PM – 7:30 PM (GMT+2)
Ewart Memorial Hall, AUC Tahrir Cultural Center
AUC Avenue, P.O. Box 74, New Cairo, 11835, Egypt
Details
While the tomb of Tutankhamun was discovered a century ago, the study of the king goes back nearly a century before that. In this lecture, Professor Dodson will look back at how the king was first rediscovered by early Egyptologists, and the various theories about him were been proposed over the year. It also considers what extra information the finding of his tomb actually added to our knowledge of his life and reign, and the vicissitudes suffered by the king, his memory and his remains over the past century.
Prof. Aidan Dodson is a world-renowned egyptologist, historian, and author of more than 25 books including his soon-to-be released book Tutankhamun, King of Egypt: His Life and Afterlife.
Read more about the book:
https://aucpress.com/product/tutankhamun-king-of-egypt/
Free and open to the public. Valid photo ID is required at gate.
Where
Ewart Memorial Hall, AUC Tahrir Cultural Center
AUC Avenue, P.O. Box 74, New Cairo, 11835, Egypt
Speakers
Aidan Dodson
Honorary Professor of Egyptology
University of Bristol, UK
Aidan Dodson is honorary full professor of Egyptology in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Bristol, UK. He was also Simpson Professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo in 2013 and Chair of the Egypt Exploration Society during 2011–16. Awarded his PhD by the University of Cambridge in 1995, he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2003. He is the author of some twenty-five books and over four hundred articles and reviews.