Bloomsbury Summer School
Fascinated by ancient civilisations?
We offer anyone with any level of knowledge, inspiring short courses on ancient Egypt and other areas of the ancient world.
2025 Course timetable
Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 March
BETWEEN EGYPT AND KUSH: THE HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY, AND MONUMENTS OF LOWER NUBIA
Course Co-Directors: Dr Robert Morkot (Friends of the Petrie Museum) and Dr Henry Bishop-Wright (Cardiff University)
Saturday 22 March
09:45* – 10:00
Participants login to Zoom; BSS Director's Welcome Address
10:00 – 11:15
1. Lower Nubia: Overview from the Prehistoric to Byzantine periods (Dr Robert Morkot)
11:45 – 13:00
2. Temples and Tombs of the Egyptian New Kingdom(Dr Robert Morkot)
Lunch Break
14:15 – 15:30
3. Archaeologists in Nubia (Dr Morkot)
16:00 – 17:15
4. The Oxford Excavations in Nubia (Dr Henry Bishop-Wright)
Sunday 23 March
10:00 – 11:15
5. After the New Kingdom (Dr Robert Morkot)
11:45 – 13:00
6. Ptolemies, Romans, and Meroites in Lower Nubia (Dr Henry Bishop-Wright)
Lunch Break
14:15 – 15:30
7. Lower Nubia: The ‘corridor to Africa’ (Dr Henry Bishop-Wright)
16:00 – 17:15
8. After Meroe (Dr Robert Morkot)
* All times are London UK time; Zoom waiting room opens 15 minutes prior to the start.
Timetables, once published, are unlikely to change, but remain provisional until the first day of the course
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