Information about next year's courses available November 2010
Archive (courses July 2010)
Photos by James Kellie
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25th August 2010
A date for your diaries …
BSS will be staging a study day in London on October 30th. The principal lecturer will be Dr Stephen Harvey (right), Director of the Ahmose and Tetisheri Project at Abydos. Full details will become available in the first week of September.
23rd August 2010
July summer schools: a great success
Our eight summer courses in London this year were enjoyed by 120 students. Highlights included the opportunity to handle objects from ancient Egypt and Cyprus; sessions taught in the Petrie Museum, British Museum and Egypt Exploration Society; illuminating lectures; parties in the Petrie Museum and UCL's Institute of Archaeology.
You will find information about our 2011 courses here on our website in November.
This year BSS students were able to handle Late Bronze Age objects from Cyprus at the British Museum with Course Director Thomas Kiely.
27th April 2010
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
The Petrie Museum is one of the world’s most important collection of Egyptian antiquities – around 80,000 objects housed here at UCL – and Bloomsbury Summer School students enjoy special-access classes taught in this extraordinary museum Handling an object from pharaonic Egypt really is a rare and special experience. Four of our eight courses this year include object-handling sessions.
You could have immersed yourself fully in this fabulous collection by taking our 2010 course: EXPLORING THE PETRIE MUSEUM III: Technology and the presentation of the individual in ancient Egypt.
If however you can’t get to the Petrie Museum you can always view its entire collection on-line: www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk and you can support the continued preservation of these remarkable antiquities by joining the Friends of the Petrie Museum: www.ucl.ac.uk/FriendsofPetrie.
28th February 2010
Denys Stocks demonstrates the experimental use of reconstructed multiple bead drilling equipment
From private life to technology in Ancient Egypt
Here at BSS we are always pleased to be joined by new course directors offering new courses. One of our new lecturers for 2010 is Dr Kasia Szpakowska. We enjoyed her book Daily Life in Ancient Egypt: Recreating Lahun so much, that we have asked her to teach a course on Living in Lahun: Private Life in Ancient Egypt. UCL’s very own Petrie Museum houses an extremely important collection of objects from Lahun, so this course will include object-handling classes in the Petrie Museum.
Kasia is a Senior Lecturer in Egyptology at Swansea University, Wales. She is one of the organisers of the Experiment and Experience: Ancient Egypt in the Present a conference held in Swansea,
10 – 12 May.
