[Uwhistory] ARCE lecture: Barry Kemp (fwd)

[Lori Anthony]

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Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 15:16:32 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: [Histmaj] ARCE lecture: Barry Kemp

The American Research Council in Egypt's Northwest Chapter (ARCE/NW) is 
pleased to announce our next lecture, co-sponsored with the University of 
Washington's Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization.

Barry Kemp, Professor of Egyptology, Cambridge University
"Life and Religion at Tell el-Amarna"
Thursday, November 9, 2006, 7 PM
Location: Smith Hall, Room 304
University of Washington
Admission: FREE

About the presentation:
Amarna is famous as the city which Pharaoh Akhenaten built for the purpose of 
imposing his religious ideas on the landscape and, to a certain extent, upon 
the society of his time.  It gained a population of several tens of thousands 
of people who had to make a life in the new location and who brought with them 
a mindset formed before Akhenaten became king.  Recent excavations have been 
within a small set of houses and, for the first time, in a cemetery of ordinary 
citizens.  They contribute to a re-evaluation of the nature of Amarna as a city 
and to the interplay between Akhenaten's ideas and the beliefs of his people.

About the presenter:
Barry Kemp is Professor of Egyptology at Cambridge University in England and 
director of the ongoing archaeological excavations at Amarna.  His publications 
include his pioneering study of Egyptian archaeology and culture, Ancient 
Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilisation (second edition: Routledge Press, 2005) and 
his popular handbook, Think Like an Egyptian: 100 Hieroglyphs (Plume Books, 
2005).

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Joel Thomas Walker
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http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/0-271-02257-4.html
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