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Egypt's Heartland Colloquium

Egypt's Heartland: Regional Perspectives on Hierakonpolis, Elkab and Edfu - July 18, 2019, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
* * Abstracts now online * *

From Predynastic to Ptolemaic times, the sites of Hierakonpolis, Elkab and Edfu exerted profund political, religious and artistic influence on Ancient Egypt. This one day colloquium presents the results by  a number of fieldworkers in the area, including Wouter Claes, Rob Demaree, Aaron de Souza, Vivian Davies, Renee Friedman, Liam McNamara. It also includes a special evening lecture by Nadine Moeller, DDirector of the Tell Edfu Project. 

 

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