Lunchtime Talk: Cultural Interactions in Ancient Egyptian Burials
About this Event
Although 'Ancient Egypt' is often seen as a monolithic culture, it had close connections with its neighbours. Even some of the earliest known burials in Egypt included items from foreign places, these could be as signs of status but also demonstrate evidence of trade.
These exotic goods not only indicate wealth but harness the power of unfamiliar materials to aid the deceased in their transition into the afterlife.
This talk reflects on cultural interactions with ancient Nubia, Libya, the Levant and Aegean to demonstrate the ancient Egyptian interconnectedness of death.
Dr Campbell Price is Curator of Egypt and Sudan at Manchester Museum and Honorary Research Fellow in Egyptology at the University of Liverpool.
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Image Credit: The Aegeans in the tomb of Senenmut (TT 71), facsimile (after Nina de Garis Davies, Ancient Egyptian Paintings I [Chicago: Oriental Institute of Chicago Press, 1936], pl. XIV).
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