Ancient Egypt Crocodile Study Day

1:00pm  Joanne Derbyshire - Crocodiles in a Quarry? Gebel Silisila and its Crocodile Gods.

Joanne Derbyshire is a PhD student at Durham University where she is working on the destroyed temples at Gebel Silsilia.  She is part of the Swedish Mission investigating the site.

2:15pm  Dr Penny Wilson - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Crocodile Cults in Egypt. 

Penny is Associate Professor of Egyptian Archaeology in the Dept. Archaeology at Durham University where she has worked for the last 20 years and before then she was Assistant Keeper in the Dept. Antiquities, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.  She studied at Liverpool University, where she completed her PhD, now published as ‘A Ptolemaic Lexikon’.  She is currently Director of the Delta Survey Project for the Egypt Exploration Society and field director of the Royal City of Sais Project. 

3:30pm  Break – Book Sale

3:45  Barbara Atkinson - The Durham Oriental Museum Mummy

Barbara is currently NEAES Secretary; she achieved the Certificate in Egyptology from Manchester University and a Diploma in Egyptology from Oxford College.  She has self-published two books, Durham University’s Oriental Museum Mummies and An Introduction to Ancient Egyptian Laws and Punishments.  

This is a hybrid event.  To obtain the Zoom code, please email neaesoc@googlemail.com