Title: The House of the Ka Speaker: Victor Blunden Victor Blunden gave a very interesting and stimulating talk to Horus at its last meeting. Mastaba tombs of courtiers surround royal burials, and their wall paintings give a wealth of detail about the lives of the people, rather than, as in royal tombs, the gods and …
Title: The Gods of Ancient Egypt: Their Beginnings and Worship Speaker: Victor Blunden Horus was very pleased to welcome Victor Blunden again. We knew that we would be given an erudite but entertaining evening, and come away understanding an aspect of Ancient Egypt that we had not appreciated before. On this occasion we learned how the …
Title: Origins of the Concept of the Sphinx in the Early Dynastic Period Speaker: Colin Reader Colin Reader is an English geologist with an interest in Ancient Egypt and is secretary to the Manchester Ancient Egypt Society. His studies of the Sphinx at Giza are making an important contribution to the debate on the age …
Title: Excavating in the Valley of the Kings Speaker: Stephen Cross We were given a fascinating talk by an Egyptologist who is also a geologist. His was a detective story with a careful scrutiny of evidence taken mostly from a close examination of the terrain in the Kings’ Valley. He began to wonder whether there …
Title: The Road to Megiddo Speaker: John Johnson The twelfth Horus season began with an excellent talk by John Johnson ‘The Road to Megiddo’. He traced the development of Egyptian power from its low point when the Hyksos controlled much of the land to the time when Tuthmosis III, at the battle of Megiddo, defined the boundaries of …
Title: Meet Kha and Merit. Speaker: Prof Joann Fletcher All Horus meetings are extremely enjoyable occasions but the last meeting of the season is special. There are extra courses at the meal, but the most important thing is that our patron Joann Fletcher presents the lecture, giving an extra flourish to a most rewarding season. …
