The Egypt Exploration Society

Online Course: Women in #AncientEgyptian Art
📅 5 March-2 April ⏰ 6pm 🇬🇧 8pm 🇪🇬

From female pharaohs to God’s Wives to everyday #women as wives and mothers, Jen Turner will examine women’s roles as portrayed in ancient Egyptian #art this #WomensHistoryMonth.

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We’re looking for volunteers Are you interested in contributing to our Outreach and Engagement programme?

Our current priority is to find volunteers with event experience to assist with our EES Fest. We plan to host a series of exciting events throughout June 2026 to celebrate the Society and test out new event formats. Help us make this festival a success!

📢🚨Outreach and Engagement volunteers

We're looking for people interested in sharing cultural heritage with the public! Tasks may include researching our collections, creating digital content, and assisting with our events.

⏰ Extended to 13 Feb
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Are #Egyptian artefacts in museums priceless treasures—or just ancient pieces of a puzzle? #AwayWithThePharaohs

Hear about four object types, behind-the-scenes work, and what it means for Egyptian material culture to be held in #museums around the world.
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Remember that EES Members have access to our #ExperienceEgypt portal, where you can read personalised recommendations around visiting Egypt and enjoying Egyptian cultural heritage beyond our usual engagement programme!

📢 Calling all EES Members, we need your vote!

Who is your favourite #pharaoh of #Egypt? Tell us your choice, and we’ll release the 'Top 5' in your #ExperienceEgypt portal on the online member zone!

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📸 Horus (god of kingship), temple of Seti I at Abydos

We're excited to launch #ADozenDiscoveries!

Follow us on Facebook or Instagram for monthly updates and go behind the scenes with a spotlight on 12 different collection highlights from @theees.bsky.social.

Head over now to learn about our replica head of Nefertiti!
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Egypt’s Breadbasket: Pharaonic Settlement Patterns in the Nile Delta
📅29 Jan-26 Feb⏰6pm🇬🇧8pm🇪🇬

Learn about the development of ancient Egyptian settlements and how important these sites are to our understanding of daily life in #AncientEgypt.
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‘Building the Future’ campaign awarded £2.03 million grant by The National Lottery Heritage Fund The transformational support will help create an accessible and sustainable future for the EES and its collections

This transformative grant will allow us to safeguard our globally significant archive and manuscript collections, making them accessible to diverse audiences for years to come.

Read more, and find out how you can help us reach our target here:

🏛️🚨Historic news! We’re thrilled to announce that we have been awarded a £2.03 million grant from
The National Lottery Heritage Fund!

#SavingHeritage #NationalLottery #HeritageFund

Ancient Egypt in 50 Discoveries An essential guide to the history of ancient Egypt through the lens of 50 fascinating discoveries made in the first century of excavations by the Egypt Exploration Society.

If you want to learn more about this Senet Game Board, whilst adding some #blue to your bookshelf, then get your own copy of Ancient Egypt in 50 Discoveries today!

Our solution to Blue Monday? Game night!♟️🎲

This blue faience game board was used to play senet in #AncientEgypt, and was originally found during an EES excavation at Abydos (@metmuseum.org 01.4.1a-p).

Download our ancient board games to try at home: www.ees.ac.uk/resource/gam...

Judge like an Egyptian⚖️Legal processes and dramas in the Pharaonic courts
📅Tues 3 Feb⏰1pm🇬🇧3pm🇪🇬

Alex Loktionov introduces ideas and institutions that shaped #AncientEgyptian justice with examples ranging from a royal tomb robbery to a disputed jar of fat!
🎫 www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/eve...

Beyond Beginners GIS, Beyond the Desktop One week Skills School on creating Quantum GIS Online Maps and ArcGIS Story Maps to disseminate your research with Hannah Pethen. Start time: 09:30 (UK)

Beyond Beginners GIS, Beyond the Desktop
📅9-13 Feb, 09:30-16:30🇬🇧

Day 1: Recap of QGIS, shapefile creation and editing
Day 2: Research, content design and revising the QGIS map
Day 3: Merging and joining QGIS data
Day 4: Going Online
Day 5: Story Maps
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🗺️Level up your GIS skills!🗺️

Join us this February for a 1-week Skills School teaching you how to create and prepare GIS data for an online map to share publicly. Perfect for researchers ready to go beyond the desktop.

Learn, create and share your work: www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/eve...

Ottoman era research may explore themes including, but nor restricted to:
Sacred Mobilities & Interactions
Material Culture in Motion
Labour & Expertise
Displacement & Coercion
Governance of Mobilities
Technologies of Movement
Spatial Politics
Knowledge & Culture in Transit
Urban & Rural Flows

🚨📢 Call for Papers: #Ottoman research in #Egypt

Join the BIRI collaborative "Ottoman Mobilities and Interactions" Symposium, 13-14 April 2026, Istanbul, Türkiye, in partnership with Sabancı University.

⏰ Deadline extended to 23 January 2026
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Get a glimpse into the life of the everyday person who lived thousands of years ago through the objects they used in their daily lives. You might be surprised how similar ancient Egyptians were to us today!

🎧 #AwayWithThePharaohs with @beketaten.bsky.social
📸 Pottery in @uclpetriemuseum.bsky.social

Our volunteers have been digitising Lantern Slides recently. A collection that belonged to Anthony John Arkell reveals how he presented his excavations in lectures during the 20th Century.

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📸 Container housing LS.12 with A.J. Arkell written on the bottom

Will your New Year's resolution be to learn something new? #newyearresolution

Make it easy.

Book one of our online courses available in early 2026, ranging from introductory to advanced learning. We can't wait to 'see' you there!
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🤔Ever wondered what work was like in #AncientEgypt?

Discover the real people behind the pharaohs in our 'Life at Work on the Nile' resource – from farmers to craftsmen and more! Dive into #history that feels surprisingly familiar.

Read now: buff.ly/2cuO7qQ

Egypt’s Breadbasket: Pharaonic Settlement Patterns in the Nile Delta📅29 Jan-26 Feb⏰6pm🇬🇧8pm🇪🇬

Trace the development of #AncientEgyptian cities and settlements, learning how political and economic changes impacted urban development with Nicky Nielsen.

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Were there helicopters in #AncientEgypt? #ConspiracyTheory

Kelly Accetta Crowe explains that the symbol suspiciously similar to a helicopter was caused by a king carving his name over another!
🎧 Listen to #AwayWithThePharaohs today
📸 Brand, Ramesses II, Egypt's Ultimate Pharaoh

@theees.bsky.social has closed for the holiday season, and we wish you a great one!

Wondering how you can show your appreciation for our work over the past year? Please support our appeal to preserve a lasting record of our premises in Doughty Mews. #EESTimeCapsule
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Looking for something special this holiday season? Explore our merch – beautifully designed gifts inspired by the wonders of ancient Egypt. From mugs to notebooks to tote bags, we've got something for everyone.

#GiftIdeas that connect past and present!

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Membership Join the largest international crowd-funding organisation supporting archaeological and heritage research in Egypt today. Enjoy discounted events, publications, library access and many more benefits.

💡 Not a member yet? Now’s the perfect time to join the EES and unlock this and many other exclusive benefits — including discounted events and publications that fuel your fascination — from just £5 per month! 👇
www.ees.ac.uk/support-us/m...

🌍We've launched our Experience Egypt portal!🌍
#Travel #Egypt #Cairo

An exclusive area of your Member Zone packed with personal recommendations, curated travel ideas and insider tips on historic sites for exploring Egyptian cultural heritage!✈️📜🏺

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The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology - Volume 111, Number 1-2 Table of contents for The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 111, 1-2

New issue of The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology Vol. 111, Nos. 1-2 (2025) journals.sagepub.com/toc/egaa/111... @suzannearnold.com @christianknoblauch.bsky.social @richardbott.bsky.social

Donate now to the Egypt Exploration Society By contributing to the Egypt Exploration Society, you help to ensure that its valuable work in Egyptology continues. We depend on your generosity and donations of any size are gratefully received.

If funds permit, we'll also create a digital model of the building, so that you can continue to walk its halls.

As we look toward a new chapter, we need your help to preserve a lasting record of what has come before, one which we can share with the world.

Donate now: www.ees.ac.uk/support-us/d...

2025: Digitising Doughty Mews Help us to create a digital time capsule before our premises are redeveloped

For many, these walls are etched with the memories of all the Society has achieved since moving to Doughty Mews in 1968. To preserve a record of the premises before the redevelopment, we want to create a ‘digital time capsule’ to share with our supporters.