London Diary
for the
Ancient Near East
Compiled By Angela Vanegas
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SINGLE EVENTS
APRIL 2026
Wednesday 1 April 2026: various Byzantine and Bloomsbury (online) 10am-5pm. More information https://www.byzantium.ac.uk/byzantium-and-bloomsbury-a-one-day-online-workshop-1-april-2026-10am-5pm-organised-by-the-society-for-the-promotion-of-byzantine-studies/
Saturday 4 April 2026: Mohamed Abd el-Maksoud Egypt’s eastern gate – the discovery of a New Kingdom fortress in north Sinai (online) 5pm. More information https://sites.google.com/site/arcedc01/events-lectures/2026-4-4-north-sinai-fortress
Mondays 6 to 27 April 2026: Wolfram Grajetzki The luckiest Egyptologist – Jacques de Morgan (online) 7.30pm. More information https://kemetklub.co.uk/product/the-luckiest-egyptologist-jacques-de-morgan/
Tuesday 7 April 2026: Jaume Vilaró Fabregat Coffins in ancient Egypt – an overview (online) 1pm. More information https://www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/events/coffins-in-ancient-egypt-an-overview.html
Friday 10 to Sunday 12 April 2026: various Fifth Symposia Iranica, University of St Andrews. More information https://iranian.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/symposia-iranica/fifth/
Friday 10 to Sunday 12 April 2026: various E G Browne and the making of Iranian Studies, The Ferguson Nazareth Room, Dolby Quarter, Pembroke College, Cambridge CB2 1RF (in person). More information https://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/events/e-g-browne-and-making-iranian-studies
Saturday 11 April 2026: Lidja McKnight Raptors unwrapped – the exploitation of birds of prey in Late and Ptolemaic Egypt, Coronation Hall, Headley Road, Woodley RG5 4JB (in person) 2pm. More information https://www.tvaes.org.uk
Sunday 12 April 2026: Rita Lucarelli Coffins as magical machines – visualising ancient Egyptian funerary texts (online) 3pm. More information https://www.essexegyptology.co.uk/?page_id=4194
Sundays 12 to 19 April 2026: Patryk Chudzik In the heart of the Theban necropolis – current work and studies at Deir el-Bahari and North Asasif (online) 2pm. More information https://kemetklub.co.uk/product/in-the-heart-of-the-theban-necropolis-current-work-and-studies-at-deir-el-bahari-and-north-asasif/
Tuesdays 14 April to 2 June 2026: Maiken Mosleth King In praise of Amun-Re – the achievements of Amenhotep III (online) 7.30pm. More information https://kemetklub.co.uk/product/in-praise-of-amun-re-the-achievements-of-amenhotep-iii/
Wednesdays 15 April to 24 June 2026: Stefano Salemi Biblical Hebrew – beginners part 3 (online) 7pm. More information https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/biblical-hebrew-beginners-consolidation?code=O25P730XVZ#tutors
Thursday 16 April 2026: Müge Bulu Both sides of the story – production of Syro-Cilician ware in the Amuq and Cilicia in the Middle Bronze Age (online) 5pm. More information https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminar/the-ancient-near-east/
Friday 17 April 2026: Georgia Andreou & Julia Nikolaus Developing capacities in marine cultural heritage management and preservation, Palestine Exploration Fund, 5-6 Dreadnought Walk, Greenwich, London SE10 9PF (in person) 6pm. More information https://www.pef.org.uk/lectures-and-events/
Saturday 18 April 2026: Luisa María García González A dynasty of nomarchs – a study of Sarenput I’s family at Aswan (online) 2pm. More information https://www.southamptonancientegyptsociety.co.uk/programme.php
Saturday 18 April 2026: Kathryn Bard Mersa/Wadi Gawasis – harbour of the pharaohs to the London of Punt (online) 3pm. More information https://www.southamptonancientegyptsociety.co.uk/programme.php
Saturday 18 & Sunday 19 April 2026: Christof Bachhuber Revolutions in Neolithic archaeology in the Fertile Crescent and beyond (online) 9.45am. More information https://www.bssac.uk/bssa-programme-2026.htm#neolithic-2026
Mondays 20 April to 6 July 2026: Rachel Montagu Biblical Hebrew advanced – module 3 (online) 4pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/biblical-hebrew-advanced-module-3
Mondays 20 April to 6 July 2026: Rachel Montagu Biblical Hebrew 4 – module 3 (online) 6pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/biblical-hebrew-4-module-3
Monday 20 April 2026: Frederico Zangani How Egyptology and Cypriot archaeology can (and should) be brought into dialogue (online) 4.30pm. More information https://www.ucy.ac.cy/aru/wp-content/uploads/sites/251/2026/01/LECTURE-PROGRAM-SPRING-SEMESTER-2026.pdf
Mondays 20 April to 1 June 2026: Yentl Love The epic of Gilgamesh (online) 7pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/the-epic-of-gilgamesh
Tuesdays 21 April to 23 June 2026: Dillon Kelly Biblical Hebrew 1 – module 3. The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 6pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/biblical-hebrew-1-module-3
Tuesday 21 April 2026: Ágnes Mihálykó Jesus, heal your handmade, who wears your holy name – some thoughts of Christian amulets (online) 4.30pm. More information https://www.palladion.hu/en/graeco-aegyptiaca-en/
Wednesday 22 April 2026: Jake Nabel The Arsacid princes of the Roman Empire (online) 12am. More information https://pourdavoud.ucla.edu/events/jake-nabel-the-arsacid-princes-of-the-roman-empire/
Wednesday 22 to Friday 24 April 2026: various Production and consumption of knowledge in the archaeology of west Asia (in person) UCL Bloomsbury Campus, London, times tbc. More information https://www.banea-lcane.co.uk/banea-2026?fbclid=IwY2xjawNser1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETF4TjRKdzRjS3g4VWZPUmkyAR6vuATlLXSmkOAL9opulwpJjsFXXHFEir95bcrju3SHeBF4Q684JSFyGcze_Q_aem_BXB_en5YxGNikuWQlwY7FA
Thursdays 23 April to 25 June 2026: Vaughan Pilikian Sanskrit reading group (online) 4.30pm, More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/sanskrit-reading-group
Thursdays 23 April to 25 June 2026: Rachel Montagu Biblical Hebrew 1 – module 3 (online) 3.30pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/biblical-hebrew-1-module-3
Thursdays 23 April to 21 May 2026: Steven Snape Sacred landscapes of ancient Egypt (online) 6pm. More information https://www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/events/sacred-landscapes-of-ancient-egypt.html
Friday 24 April 2026: Arabic Diaries Project Team The Arabic Excavation Archive form Qift – digitization, inscription and translation of the Arabic diaries from the Harvard-MFA excavations in Egypt and Sudan 1913-1947 (online) 6.30pm. More information https://www.friendsofpetrie.org.uk/wp/lectures/2025-26-lecture-series/
Saturday 25 April 2026: Ken Griffin From t3wy to the Tawe – Welsh Egyptological collections, Business & Enterprise Centre, Forest School, Comptons Lane, Horsham, West Sussex, RH13 5NT (in person) 2pm. More information https://www.egyptology-uk.com/events_venues.htm
Saturday 25 April 2026: Ann Jeffers Creation myths in the ancient Near East, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 10.30am. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/creation-myths-in-the-ancient-near-east
Saturdays 25 April to 27 June 2026: Vaughan Pilikian Sumerian 1 - module 3, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 2.15pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/sumerian-1-module-3
Sundays 26 April to 3 May 2026: Paul T Nicholson Piecing together the past – science and history in Egyptology (online) 2pm. More information https://kemetklub.co.uk/product/piecing-together-the-past-science-and-history-in-egyptology/
Monday 27 April 2026: David Wengrow Inequality at the Dawn of the Bronze Age: The Case of Başur Höyük, a ‘Royal’ Cemetery at the Margins of the Mesopotamian World, Lecture Theatre G6, UCL Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1 0PY (in person & online) 6.15 pm. More information https://www.banea-lcane.co.uk/lcane.
Monday 27 April to Friday 10 July 2026: Sarah Doherty Ancient Egypt – an introduction (online). More information https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/ancient-egypt-an-introduction-online?code=O25P376AHV
Tuesday 28 to Wednesday 29 April 2026: Justin Murray Grammar for ancient languages – an introduction (online) 6pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/grammar-for-ancient-languages-an-introduction
Tuesdays 28 April to 26 May 2026: Joseph Clayton Beginners ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs (online) 6pm. More information https://www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/events/beginners-ancient-egyptian-hieroglyphs-26.html
Thursday 30 April 2026: Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis Birds, wings and diadems – Zoroastrian symbols in Parthian & Sasanian art, Khalili Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental and African Studies, Torrington Square, London WC1H 0XG (in person) time tbc. More information https://www.facebook.com/SOAS.SPIZS/?locale=en_GB
Thursdays 30 April to 18 June 2026: Simone Chisena Humanity and agriculture – the Neolithic revolution (online) 7.30pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/humanity-and-agriculture-the-neolithic-revolution
MAY 2026
Saturdays 2 May to 20 June 2026: Vaughan Pilikian Languages of the ancient Near East part 3, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 4pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/languages-of-the-ancient-near-east-part-3
Saturdays 2 to 9 May 2026: various Making, breaking, sharing – ritual practice in ancient Egypt (pottery workshop), 1 Rochester Square, off Camden Road, London NW1 9SD (in person) 12pm. More information https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-collections/events/2026/may/making-breaking-sharing-ritual-practice-ancient-egypt-pottery-workshop-rochester
Monday 4 May 2026: Avary Taylor & Agnete Lassen Pigments, metals and the decorated surfaces of ancient western Asian cylinder seals – new scientific evidence from the Yale Babylonian Collection (online) 5pm. More information https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminar/the-ancient-near-east/
Wednesdays 6 May to 8 July 2026: Michael Bloomfield Isis, Mithras and Christ – iconography and mythology, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 6pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/isis-mithras-and-christ-iconography-and-mythology
Thursdays 7 May to 9 July 2026: Sean Gabb The coming of the Sea Peoples – the Trojan War in the context of Mycenaean Greece and the eastern Mediterranean in the Late Bronze Age (online) 6pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/humanities/the-coming-of-the-sea-peoples-the-trojan-war-in-the-context-of-mycenaean-greece-and-the-eastern-mediterranean-in-the-late-bronze-age
Friday 8 May 2026: Nicholas Aherne Experiencing mythological sarcophagi in Roman Phoenicia, Room 243, Institute Of Classical Studies, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU (in person) 5pm. More information postgradwip@gmail.com
Saturday 9 May 2026: Rosalind Janssen Tutankhamun’s fashion, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 11am. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/tutankhamun-s-fashion
Sunday 10 May 2026: Christina Geisen Horus and the crocodiles – ancient Egyptian magic in action, Spring Lodge Community Centre, Powers End, Witham, Essex CM8 2HE (in person) 3pm. More information https://www.essexegyptology.co.uk/?page_id=35
Monday 11 May to Friday 24 July 2026: Rachael Dann Ancient Mesopotamia and the Sumerians (online). More information https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/the-first-civilization-mesopotamia-online?code=O25P575AHV
Wednesday 13 May 2026: Nima Asefi Documents from turbulent times – studying Middle Persian collections from the Late Sasanian and Early Islamic periods, opportunities & challenges (online) 4pm. More information https://invisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk/event/rethinking-history-returning-to-archives-and-documents#collapse5290841
Thursday 14 to Saturday 16 May 2026: various Transparent journeys along the Silk Roads – glass and connectivity across central Asia and beyond, University College London Bloomsbury Campus (in person). More information https://historyofglass.org.uk/meetings/
Friday 15 May 2026: Roberta Marin An insight in the art of Palestine – from the ancient to the modern world, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 10.30am. More informationhttps://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/an-insight-in-the-art-of-palestine-from-the-ancient-to-the-modern-world
Saturday 16 May 2026: Luisa María González A dynasty of powerful people – a study of Sarenputi I’s family at Aswan (online) 2pm. More information https://www.southamptonancientegyptsociety.co.uk/programme.php
Sunday 17 May 2026: Kit Devine A taster of hieroglyphs (online) 9.45am. More information https://www.bssac.uk/bssa-programme-2026.htm#taste-hieroglyphs-2026
Tuesday 19 May 2026: Alexis Kyriacou & Mark Merrony Cyprus as a crossroads of art – from antiquity to the medieval period, Cyprus House, 13 St James Square, London SW1Y 4LB (in person) 7pm. More information https://www.culturalchc.co.uk/cyprus-as-a-crossroads-of-art-from-antiquity-to-the-medieval-period
Tuesday 19 May 2026: Alexis Kyriacou and Mark Merrony Cyprus as a crossroads of art – from antiquity to the medieval period, Cyprus House, 13 St James Square, London SW1Y 4LB (in person) 7pm. More information https://www.culturalchc.co.uk/cyprus-as-a-crossroads-of-art-from-antiquity-to-the-medieval-period-1
Tuesday 26 May 2026: Michael Macdonald Ancient North Arabia – writing in literate and non-literate societies, Room 10 Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA (in person) 5pm. More information https://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/events/annual-ullendorff-lecture-semitic-philology-ancient-north-arabia-writing-literate-and-non
Friday 29 May 2026: Anna Garnett Understanding Arabic objects in the Petrie Museum collection, Petrie Museum, University College London, Malet Place, London WC1E 6BT (in person) 11am. More information https://www.friendsofpetrie.org.uk/wp/object-handling/handling-seminars-2025-26/
Saturday 30 May 2026: Bill Manley Forgotten stories from ancient Thebes, Brighton Hove & Sussex 6th Form College, 205 Dyke Road, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 6EG (in person) 2pm. More information https://www.egyptology-uk.com/events_venues.htm
Saturday 30 May 2026: Ann Jeffers Artefacts with biblical reference at the British Museum – an introduction, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 10.45am. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/artefacts-with-biblical-reference-at-the-british-museum-an-introduction
JUNE 2026
Tuesday 2 June 2026: Carl Graves The Egyptian Exploration Society – exploring Egyptian heritage from Camden since 1882 (or thereabouts) (online) 1pm. More information https://www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/events/the-ees-exploring-egyptian-heritage-from-camden-since-1882-or-thereabouts.html
Wednesday 3 June 2026: Carl Graves (introduction) A night at the movies – the Mummy (1999), The Garden Cinema, 39-41 Parker Street, London WC2B 5PQ (in person) 5pm. More information https://www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/events/a-night-at-the-movies-the-mummy-1999.html
Saturday 6 June 2026: various Egyptian Exploration Society Open Day, 3 Doughty Mews, London WC1N 2PG (in person) 10am-4pm. More information https://www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/events/open-day-2026.html
Sunday 7 June 2026: Filip Taterka Hatshepsut and Senenmut – a romantic history (online) 3pm. More information https://www.essexegyptology.co.uk/?page_id=35
Thursdays 11 June to 2 July 2026: Yentl Love Gender and sexuality in the ancient world – an introduction (online) 7pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/gender-and-sexuality-in-the-ancient-world-an-introduction
Friday 12 June 2026: Penny Wilson A means to an end – cultic expansion and consolidation in Late Dynastic Egypt, Lecture Theatre G6, UCL Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1 0PY (in person & online) 6.30pm. More information https://www.friendsofpetrie.org.uk/wp/lectures/2025-26-lecture-series/
Saturday 20 June 2026: Carl Graves Lessons in Egyptian epigraphy – from Carter to Caminos (online) 2pm. More information https://www.southamptonancientegyptsociety.co.uk/programme.php
Monday 22 to Friday 26 June 2026: various Anatolian languages and linguistics summer school, Faculty of Classics, Ioannou Centre, University of Oxford, 66 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LU (in person) 9.30am-5.30pm. More information https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/anatolian-languages-and-linguistics-summer-school-0
Saturday 27 June 2026: Lucia Gahlin The Ramesseum before and after Ramesses II – pre-use and re-use of a 19th dynasty site, Davison CE High School for Girls, Selborne Road, Worthing, West Sussex, BN11 2JX (in person) 2pm. More information https://www.egyptology-uk.com/events_venues.htm
Saturday 27 June 2026: Rosalind Janssen Death, disease and mummies in ancient Egypt, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 10.45am. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/disease-death-and-mummies-in-ancient-egypt
Sunday 27 June 2026: various “Preserving” Egyptian heritage – a tale as old as time? Khalili Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental and African Studies, Torrington Square, London WC1H 0XG (in person & online) 1-6pm. More information https://www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/events/preserving-egyptian-heritage-a-tale-as-old-as-time.html
Saturday 27 June 2026: Mohamed Osman Abdollah Tracks on the sand – the desert hinterlands in ancient Egypt, Oakwood Centre, Headley Road RG5 4JB (in person) 2pm. More information https://www.tvaes.org.uk
Monday 29 June to Friday 3 July 2026: Kit Devine Hieroglyphs – the next step, Bloomsbury Campus University College London (in person) 10am. More information https://www.bssac.uk/bssa-programme-2026.htm#hieroglyphs-next-2026-1
Monday 29 June to Friday 3 July 2026: Christina Geisen Crime, sorcery & scandal – a somewhat different view of Egypt, University College London (in person & online) time tba. More information https://www.bssac.uk/bssa-programme-2026.htm#ae-crime-2026
JULY 2026
Sunday 5 July 2026: Frederico Zangani The Armarna period and its place in the history of globalisation, Spring Lodge Community Centre, Powers End, Witham, Essex CM8 2HE (in person) 3pm. More information https://www.essexegyptology.co.uk/?page_id=35
Sunday 5 July to Saturday 11 July 2026: Aphrodite Papayianni Byzantine centres of splendour, Christ Church, St Aldates, Oxford OX1 1DP (in person). More information https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/byzantine-centres-of-splendour?code=O25I102OER
Monday 6 to Wednesday 8 July 2026: various Orientalism and the Levant during the second half of the second millennium (1500-2000), The Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE, time tbc. More information https://www.aramsociety.org/conferences/current-conferences/
Monday 6 to Friday 10 July 2026: Luigi Prada Reading hieroglyphs – dreams, epiphanies and oracles at the court of pharaoh, Bloomsbury Campus University College London (in person) time tba. More information https://www.bssac.uk/bssa-programme-2026.htm#reading-hieroglyphs2-2026
Monday 6 to Friday 10 July 2026: Penny Wilson Archaeology of a lost – but famous - royal city, Bloomsbury Campus University College London (in person & online) time tba. More information https://www.bssac.uk/bssa-programme-2026.htm#sais-2026
Tuesday 7 to Wednesday 8 July 2026: various The pursuit of happiness – emotional flourishing in early Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Aga Khan Centre, 10 Handyside Street, London NC1 4DN (in person) 9am-5pm. More information https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/british-academy-conferences/before-pursuit-happiness-emotional-flourishing-early-judaism-christianity-islam/
Wednesday 8 to Friday 10 July 2026: various Order out of chaos - classification and categories in the Ancient Near East, University College London Bloomsbury Conference (in person & online). More information https://edubalondon.wixsite.com/eduba-london/conference-2026
Saturday 11 July to Saturday 18 July 2026: Rosalind Janssen Activists, artists and archaeologist – pioneer women Egyptologists, Rewley House, 1 Wellington Sq, Oxford OX1 2JA (in person). More information https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/activists-artists-and-archaeologists-pioneer-women-egyptologists?code=O25I101SSR
Monday 13 to Wednesday 15 July 2026: various The Arameans and Aramaic from the Ancient Near East to the Roman Near East, The Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE, time tbc. More information https://www.aramsociety.org/conferences/current-conferences/
Monday 13 to Friday 17 July 2026: Irvine Finkel & Lloyd Llewellyn Jones Babylon – mother of all cities, Bloomsbury Campus University College London (in person & online) time tba. More information https://www.bssac.uk/bssa-programme-2026.htm#babylon-2026
Monday 13 to Friday 17 July 2026: Marcel Marée The trade in cultural property – problems and answers, Bloomsbury Campus University College London (in person) time tba. More information https://www.bssac.uk/bssa-programme-2026.htm#cultural-property-2026
Tuesday 14 to Thursday 23 July 2026: various London Summer School in Classics (Greek & Latin, plus Sanskrit, Hittite, Akkadian, Sumerian, and New Testament/Koine Greek subject to demand) UCL Bloomsbury Campus & Kings College London) (in person) times tbc. More information https://www.ucl.ac.uk/short-courses/search-courses/london-summer-school-classics
Saturday 18 July 2026: Jan Moje Shabtis (online) 2pm. More information https://www.southamptonancientegyptsociety.co.uk/programme.php
Sunday 19 to Saturday 25 July 2026: Aphrodite Papayianni The eternal Alexander the Great – reality, myth, legacy, Christ Church, St Aldates, Oxford OX1 1DP (in person). More information https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/the-eternal-alexander-the-great-reality-myth-legacy?code=O25I305OER
Monday 20 to Friday 24 July 2026: Irvine Finkel Beginning Babylonian, Bloomsbury Campus University College London (in person) time tba. More information https://www.bssac.uk/bssa-programme-2026.htm#babylonian-2026
Monday 20 to Friday 24 July 2026: Lloyd Llewellyn Jones Cleopatra – from Egyptian queen to global icon, Bloomsbury Campus University College London (in person & online) time tba. More information https://www.bssac.uk/bssa-programme-2026.htm#cleopatra-2026
Mondays 20 July to 10 August 2026: Sean Gabb Reading Herodotus (online) 2pm. More informationhttps://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/reading-herodotus
Thursday 30 July – Saturday 1 August 2026: various 59th Seminar for Arabian Studies (online). More information https://iasarabia.org/the-seminar/
Friday 31 July 2026: various Private view of Routes, Ruins and Reconnaissance – exhibition on the life and career of Gertrude Bell, Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR (in person) 6.30pm. More information https://www.rgs.org/events/upcoming-events/routes-ruins-reconnaissance-private-viewing
AUGUST 2026
Sunday 2 August 2026: Jo Rowland Naqada and Nubt in the 21st century – re-evaluating prehistoric and historic contexts in the archive and the field (online) 3pm. More information https://www.essexegyptology.co.uk/?page_id=35
Sunday 2 August to Saturday 8 August 2026: Rosalind Janssen Life, love and loss in an ancient Egyptian village, Christ Church, St Aldates, Oxford OX1 1DP (in person) time tba. More information https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/life-love-and-loss-in-an-ancient-egyptian-village?code=O25I512OER
Saturday 22 August 2026: Piers Litherland Title tba, Brighton Hove & Sussex 6th Form College, 205 Dyke Road, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 6EG (in person) 2pm. More information https://www.egyptology-uk.com/events_venues.htm
SEPTEMBER 2026
Sunday 6 September 2026: Aidan Dobson Amenhotep son of Hapu – nobleman and demi-god, Spring Lodge Community Centre, Powers End, Witham, Essex CM8 2HE (in person) 3pm. More information https://www.essexegyptology.co.uk/?page_id=35
Saturday 19 September 2026: Barnaud Quertinmont The Egyptological collection of the royal Museum of Mariemont (online) 2pm. More information https://www.southamptonancientegyptsociety.co.uk/programme.php
Saturday 26 September 2026: Carl Graves Howard Carter – from tracer to Tutankhamun, Davison CE High School for Girls, Selborne Road, Worthing, West Sussex, BN11 2JX (in person) 2pm. More informationhttps://www.egyptology-uk.com/events_venues.htm
Mondays 28 September to 30 November 2026: Rachel Montagu Biblical Hebrew advanced – module 1 9online) 4pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/biblical-hebrew-advanced-module-1
Tuesdays 29 September to 1 December 2026: Dillon Kelly Biblical Hebrew 2 – module 1, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 6pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/biblical-hebrew-2-module-1
Tuesdays 29 September to 1 December 2026: Michael Duigan The female Horus – Hatshepsut, Queen of Egypt, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 12.30pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/the-female-horus-hatshepsut-queen-of-egypt
Wednesdays 30 September to 2 December 2026: Rachel Montagu Biblical Hebrew 3 – module 1 (online) 6pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/biblical-hebrew-3-module-1
Wednesdays 30 September to 2 December 2026: Dillon Kelly Sanskrit 1 – module 1 (online) 6pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/sanskrit-1-module-1
OCTOBER 2026
Saturdays 3 October to 5 December 2026: Vaughan Pilikian Languages of the ancient Near East part 1 – Sumerian, Akkadian, Egyptian, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 4pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/languages-of-the-ancient-near-east-part-1-sumerian-akkadian-egyptian
Saturdays 3 October to 5 December 2026: Vaughan Pilikian Sumerian level 2 – module 1, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 4pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/sumerian-level-2-module-1
Sunday 4 October 2026: Heidi Köpp-Junk Abydos in the Early Dynastic period – the tomb of Khsasekhemwy (online) 3pm. More information https://www.essexegyptology.co.uk/?page_id=35
Thursdays 15 October to 19 November 2026: Hugo Cook Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs and introduction (online) 6pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/ancient-egyptian-hieroglyphs-an-introduction-online
Saturday 24 October 2026: Hugo Cook Deciphering the Rosetta Stone, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 10.30am. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/deciphering-the-rosetta-stone
Saturday 31 October 2026: Kristine Reinhold Double, double, toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble – fiery cauldrons of the nether world, Business & Enterprise Centre, Forest School, Comptons Lane, Horsham, West Sussex, RH13 5NT (in person) 2pm. More information https://www.egyptology-uk.com/events_venues.htm
NOVEMBER 2026
Sunday 1 November 2026: Sonia Prakash Faience rings and broad collars, Spring Lodge Community Centre, Powers End, Witham, Essex CM8 2HE (in person) 3pm. More information https://www.essexegyptology.co.uk/?page_id=35
Thursdays 12 to 19 November 2026: Rachel Montagu Introduction to the Hebrew alphabet (online) 1.30pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/introduction-to-the-hebrew-alphabet
Saturday 14 November 2026: Christina Geisen & Kelly Accetta Crowe Materiality of things – the hidden power of ancient Egyptian objects, UCL Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1 0PY (in person & online) 10.30am. More information https://www.bssac.uk/study-days.htm
Wednesday 18 to Saturday 21 November 2026: various American Society of Overseas Research annual meeting (online). More information https://www.asor.org/am/
Saturday 21 to Thursday 24 November 2026: various Society of Biblical Literature annual meeting (online). More information https://10times.com/e1r5-s5f4-h9ds#google_vignette
Saturday 21 November 2026: Yentl Love Women in the ancient Near East, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 4pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/women-in-the-ancient-near-east
Saturdays & Sundays 21 November to 5 December 2026: Kit Devine Hieroglyphs – the next steps (online) 10am. More information https://www.bssac.uk/bssa-programme-2026.htm#hieroglyphs-next-2026-2
Sunday 22 November 2026: Luigi Prada A taste of Coptic (online) time tba. More information https://www.bssac.uk/bssa-programme-2026.htm#taste-coptic-2026
Saturday 28 November 2026: Rosalind Janssen Non-elite women in ancient Egypt, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 11am. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/non-elite-women-in-ancient-egypt
DECEMBER 2026
Wednesday 2 December 2026: Roberta Marin Communication and trade routes between the Mediterranean and Asia, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 10am. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/communication-and-trade-routes-between-the-mediterranean-and-asia
Friday 4 December 2026: Roberta Marin Treasures of Byzantine art and architecture, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 10.30 am. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/treasures-of-byzantine-art-and-architecture
JANUARY 2027
Wednesday 6 to Friday 8 January 2027: various 11th International Conference on Iranian Linguistics, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA (in person). More information https://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/events/eleventh-international-conference-iranian-linguistics-icil-11
APRIL 2026
Wednesday 1 April 2026: various Byzantine and Bloomsbury (online) 10am-5pm. More information https://www.byzantium.ac.uk/byzantium-and-bloomsbury-a-one-day-online-workshop-1-april-2026-10am-5pm-organised-by-the-society-for-the-promotion-of-byzantine-studies/
Saturday 4 April 2026: Mohamed Abd el-Maksoud Egypt’s eastern gate – the discovery of a New Kingdom fortress in north Sinai (online) 5pm. More information https://sites.google.com/site/arcedc01/events-lectures/2026-4-4-north-sinai-fortress
Mondays 6 to 27 April 2026: Wolfram Grajetzki The luckiest Egyptologist – Jacques de Morgan (online) 7.30pm. More information https://kemetklub.co.uk/product/the-luckiest-egyptologist-jacques-de-morgan/
Tuesday 7 April 2026: Jaume Vilaró Fabregat Coffins in ancient Egypt – an overview (online) 1pm. More information https://www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/events/coffins-in-ancient-egypt-an-overview.html
Friday 10 to Sunday 12 April 2026: various Fifth Symposia Iranica, University of St Andrews. More information https://iranian.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/symposia-iranica/fifth/
Friday 10 to Sunday 12 April 2026: various E G Browne and the making of Iranian Studies, The Ferguson Nazareth Room, Dolby Quarter, Pembroke College, Cambridge CB2 1RF (in person). More information https://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/events/e-g-browne-and-making-iranian-studies
Saturday 11 April 2026: Lidja McKnight Raptors unwrapped – the exploitation of birds of prey in Late and Ptolemaic Egypt, Coronation Hall, Headley Road, Woodley RG5 4JB (in person) 2pm. More information https://www.tvaes.org.uk
Sunday 12 April 2026: Rita Lucarelli Coffins as magical machines – visualising ancient Egyptian funerary texts (online) 3pm. More information https://www.essexegyptology.co.uk/?page_id=4194
Sundays 12 to 19 April 2026: Patryk Chudzik In the heart of the Theban necropolis – current work and studies at Deir el-Bahari and North Asasif (online) 2pm. More information https://kemetklub.co.uk/product/in-the-heart-of-the-theban-necropolis-current-work-and-studies-at-deir-el-bahari-and-north-asasif/
Tuesdays 14 April to 2 June 2026: Maiken Mosleth King In praise of Amun-Re – the achievements of Amenhotep III (online) 7.30pm. More information https://kemetklub.co.uk/product/in-praise-of-amun-re-the-achievements-of-amenhotep-iii/
Wednesdays 15 April to 24 June 2026: Stefano Salemi Biblical Hebrew – beginners part 3 (online) 7pm. More information https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/biblical-hebrew-beginners-consolidation?code=O25P730XVZ#tutors
Thursday 16 April 2026: Müge Bulu Both sides of the story – production of Syro-Cilician ware in the Amuq and Cilicia in the Middle Bronze Age (online) 5pm. More information https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminar/the-ancient-near-east/
Friday 17 April 2026: Georgia Andreou & Julia Nikolaus Developing capacities in marine cultural heritage management and preservation, Palestine Exploration Fund, 5-6 Dreadnought Walk, Greenwich, London SE10 9PF (in person) 6pm. More information https://www.pef.org.uk/lectures-and-events/
Saturday 18 April 2026: Luisa María García González A dynasty of nomarchs – a study of Sarenput I’s family at Aswan (online) 2pm. More information https://www.southamptonancientegyptsociety.co.uk/programme.php
Saturday 18 April 2026: Kathryn Bard Mersa/Wadi Gawasis – harbour of the pharaohs to the London of Punt (online) 3pm. More information https://www.southamptonancientegyptsociety.co.uk/programme.php
Saturday 18 & Sunday 19 April 2026: Christof Bachhuber Revolutions in Neolithic archaeology in the Fertile Crescent and beyond (online) 9.45am. More information https://www.bssac.uk/bssa-programme-2026.htm#neolithic-2026
Mondays 20 April to 6 July 2026: Rachel Montagu Biblical Hebrew advanced – module 3 (online) 4pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/biblical-hebrew-advanced-module-3
Mondays 20 April to 6 July 2026: Rachel Montagu Biblical Hebrew 4 – module 3 (online) 6pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/biblical-hebrew-4-module-3
Monday 20 April 2026: Frederico Zangani How Egyptology and Cypriot archaeology can (and should) be brought into dialogue (online) 4.30pm. More information https://www.ucy.ac.cy/aru/wp-content/uploads/sites/251/2026/01/LECTURE-PROGRAM-SPRING-SEMESTER-2026.pdf
Mondays 20 April to 1 June 2026: Yentl Love The epic of Gilgamesh (online) 7pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/the-epic-of-gilgamesh
Tuesdays 21 April to 23 June 2026: Dillon Kelly Biblical Hebrew 1 – module 3. The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 6pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/biblical-hebrew-1-module-3
Tuesday 21 April 2026: Ágnes Mihálykó Jesus, heal your handmade, who wears your holy name – some thoughts of Christian amulets (online) 4.30pm. More information https://www.palladion.hu/en/graeco-aegyptiaca-en/
Wednesday 22 April 2026: Jake Nabel The Arsacid princes of the Roman Empire (online) 12am. More information https://pourdavoud.ucla.edu/events/jake-nabel-the-arsacid-princes-of-the-roman-empire/
Wednesday 22 to Friday 24 April 2026: various Production and consumption of knowledge in the archaeology of west Asia (in person) UCL Bloomsbury Campus, London, times tbc. More information https://www.banea-lcane.co.uk/banea-2026?fbclid=IwY2xjawNser1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETF4TjRKdzRjS3g4VWZPUmkyAR6vuATlLXSmkOAL9opulwpJjsFXXHFEir95bcrju3SHeBF4Q684JSFyGcze_Q_aem_BXB_en5YxGNikuWQlwY7FA
Thursdays 23 April to 25 June 2026: Vaughan Pilikian Sanskrit reading group (online) 4.30pm, More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/sanskrit-reading-group
Thursdays 23 April to 25 June 2026: Rachel Montagu Biblical Hebrew 1 – module 3 (online) 3.30pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/biblical-hebrew-1-module-3
Thursdays 23 April to 21 May 2026: Steven Snape Sacred landscapes of ancient Egypt (online) 6pm. More information https://www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/events/sacred-landscapes-of-ancient-egypt.html
Friday 24 April 2026: Arabic Diaries Project Team The Arabic Excavation Archive form Qift – digitization, inscription and translation of the Arabic diaries from the Harvard-MFA excavations in Egypt and Sudan 1913-1947 (online) 6.30pm. More information https://www.friendsofpetrie.org.uk/wp/lectures/2025-26-lecture-series/
Saturday 25 April 2026: Ken Griffin From t3wy to the Tawe – Welsh Egyptological collections, Business & Enterprise Centre, Forest School, Comptons Lane, Horsham, West Sussex, RH13 5NT (in person) 2pm. More information https://www.egyptology-uk.com/events_venues.htm
Saturday 25 April 2026: Ann Jeffers Creation myths in the ancient Near East, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 10.30am. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/creation-myths-in-the-ancient-near-east
Saturdays 25 April to 27 June 2026: Vaughan Pilikian Sumerian 1 - module 3, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 2.15pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/sumerian-1-module-3
Sundays 26 April to 3 May 2026: Paul T Nicholson Piecing together the past – science and history in Egyptology (online) 2pm. More information https://kemetklub.co.uk/product/piecing-together-the-past-science-and-history-in-egyptology/
Monday 27 April 2026: David Wengrow Inequality at the Dawn of the Bronze Age: The Case of Başur Höyük, a ‘Royal’ Cemetery at the Margins of the Mesopotamian World, Lecture Theatre G6, UCL Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1 0PY (in person & online) 6.15 pm. More information https://www.banea-lcane.co.uk/lcane.
Monday 27 April to Friday 10 July 2026: Sarah Doherty Ancient Egypt – an introduction (online). More information https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/ancient-egypt-an-introduction-online?code=O25P376AHV
Tuesday 28 to Wednesday 29 April 2026: Justin Murray Grammar for ancient languages – an introduction (online) 6pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/grammar-for-ancient-languages-an-introduction
Tuesdays 28 April to 26 May 2026: Joseph Clayton Beginners ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs (online) 6pm. More information https://www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/events/beginners-ancient-egyptian-hieroglyphs-26.html
Thursday 30 April 2026: Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis Birds, wings and diadems – Zoroastrian symbols in Parthian & Sasanian art, Khalili Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental and African Studies, Torrington Square, London WC1H 0XG (in person) time tbc. More information https://www.facebook.com/SOAS.SPIZS/?locale=en_GB
Thursdays 30 April to 18 June 2026: Simone Chisena Humanity and agriculture – the Neolithic revolution (online) 7.30pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/humanity-and-agriculture-the-neolithic-revolution
MAY 2026
Saturdays 2 May to 20 June 2026: Vaughan Pilikian Languages of the ancient Near East part 3, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 4pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/languages-of-the-ancient-near-east-part-3
Saturdays 2 to 9 May 2026: various Making, breaking, sharing – ritual practice in ancient Egypt (pottery workshop), 1 Rochester Square, off Camden Road, London NW1 9SD (in person) 12pm. More information https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-collections/events/2026/may/making-breaking-sharing-ritual-practice-ancient-egypt-pottery-workshop-rochester
Monday 4 May 2026: Avary Taylor & Agnete Lassen Pigments, metals and the decorated surfaces of ancient western Asian cylinder seals – new scientific evidence from the Yale Babylonian Collection (online) 5pm. More information https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminar/the-ancient-near-east/
Wednesdays 6 May to 8 July 2026: Michael Bloomfield Isis, Mithras and Christ – iconography and mythology, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 6pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/isis-mithras-and-christ-iconography-and-mythology
Thursdays 7 May to 9 July 2026: Sean Gabb The coming of the Sea Peoples – the Trojan War in the context of Mycenaean Greece and the eastern Mediterranean in the Late Bronze Age (online) 6pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/humanities/the-coming-of-the-sea-peoples-the-trojan-war-in-the-context-of-mycenaean-greece-and-the-eastern-mediterranean-in-the-late-bronze-age
Friday 8 May 2026: Nicholas Aherne Experiencing mythological sarcophagi in Roman Phoenicia, Room 243, Institute Of Classical Studies, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU (in person) 5pm. More information postgradwip@gmail.com
Saturday 9 May 2026: Rosalind Janssen Tutankhamun’s fashion, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 11am. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/tutankhamun-s-fashion
Sunday 10 May 2026: Christina Geisen Horus and the crocodiles – ancient Egyptian magic in action, Spring Lodge Community Centre, Powers End, Witham, Essex CM8 2HE (in person) 3pm. More information https://www.essexegyptology.co.uk/?page_id=35
Monday 11 May to Friday 24 July 2026: Rachael Dann Ancient Mesopotamia and the Sumerians (online). More information https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/the-first-civilization-mesopotamia-online?code=O25P575AHV
Wednesday 13 May 2026: Nima Asefi Documents from turbulent times – studying Middle Persian collections from the Late Sasanian and Early Islamic periods, opportunities & challenges (online) 4pm. More information https://invisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk/event/rethinking-history-returning-to-archives-and-documents#collapse5290841
Thursday 14 to Saturday 16 May 2026: various Transparent journeys along the Silk Roads – glass and connectivity across central Asia and beyond, University College London Bloomsbury Campus (in person). More information https://historyofglass.org.uk/meetings/
Friday 15 May 2026: Roberta Marin An insight in the art of Palestine – from the ancient to the modern world, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 10.30am. More informationhttps://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/an-insight-in-the-art-of-palestine-from-the-ancient-to-the-modern-world
Saturday 16 May 2026: Luisa María González A dynasty of powerful people – a study of Sarenputi I’s family at Aswan (online) 2pm. More information https://www.southamptonancientegyptsociety.co.uk/programme.php
Sunday 17 May 2026: Kit Devine A taster of hieroglyphs (online) 9.45am. More information https://www.bssac.uk/bssa-programme-2026.htm#taste-hieroglyphs-2026
Tuesday 19 May 2026: Alexis Kyriacou & Mark Merrony Cyprus as a crossroads of art – from antiquity to the medieval period, Cyprus House, 13 St James Square, London SW1Y 4LB (in person) 7pm. More information https://www.culturalchc.co.uk/cyprus-as-a-crossroads-of-art-from-antiquity-to-the-medieval-period
Tuesday 19 May 2026: Alexis Kyriacou and Mark Merrony Cyprus as a crossroads of art – from antiquity to the medieval period, Cyprus House, 13 St James Square, London SW1Y 4LB (in person) 7pm. More information https://www.culturalchc.co.uk/cyprus-as-a-crossroads-of-art-from-antiquity-to-the-medieval-period-1
Tuesday 26 May 2026: Michael Macdonald Ancient North Arabia – writing in literate and non-literate societies, Room 10 Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA (in person) 5pm. More information https://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/events/annual-ullendorff-lecture-semitic-philology-ancient-north-arabia-writing-literate-and-non
Friday 29 May 2026: Anna Garnett Understanding Arabic objects in the Petrie Museum collection, Petrie Museum, University College London, Malet Place, London WC1E 6BT (in person) 11am. More information https://www.friendsofpetrie.org.uk/wp/object-handling/handling-seminars-2025-26/
Saturday 30 May 2026: Bill Manley Forgotten stories from ancient Thebes, Brighton Hove & Sussex 6th Form College, 205 Dyke Road, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 6EG (in person) 2pm. More information https://www.egyptology-uk.com/events_venues.htm
Saturday 30 May 2026: Ann Jeffers Artefacts with biblical reference at the British Museum – an introduction, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 10.45am. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/artefacts-with-biblical-reference-at-the-british-museum-an-introduction
JUNE 2026
Tuesday 2 June 2026: Carl Graves The Egyptian Exploration Society – exploring Egyptian heritage from Camden since 1882 (or thereabouts) (online) 1pm. More information https://www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/events/the-ees-exploring-egyptian-heritage-from-camden-since-1882-or-thereabouts.html
Wednesday 3 June 2026: Carl Graves (introduction) A night at the movies – the Mummy (1999), The Garden Cinema, 39-41 Parker Street, London WC2B 5PQ (in person) 5pm. More information https://www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/events/a-night-at-the-movies-the-mummy-1999.html
Saturday 6 June 2026: various Egyptian Exploration Society Open Day, 3 Doughty Mews, London WC1N 2PG (in person) 10am-4pm. More information https://www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/events/open-day-2026.html
Sunday 7 June 2026: Filip Taterka Hatshepsut and Senenmut – a romantic history (online) 3pm. More information https://www.essexegyptology.co.uk/?page_id=35
Thursdays 11 June to 2 July 2026: Yentl Love Gender and sexuality in the ancient world – an introduction (online) 7pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/gender-and-sexuality-in-the-ancient-world-an-introduction
Friday 12 June 2026: Penny Wilson A means to an end – cultic expansion and consolidation in Late Dynastic Egypt, Lecture Theatre G6, UCL Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1 0PY (in person & online) 6.30pm. More information https://www.friendsofpetrie.org.uk/wp/lectures/2025-26-lecture-series/
Saturday 20 June 2026: Carl Graves Lessons in Egyptian epigraphy – from Carter to Caminos (online) 2pm. More information https://www.southamptonancientegyptsociety.co.uk/programme.php
Monday 22 to Friday 26 June 2026: various Anatolian languages and linguistics summer school, Faculty of Classics, Ioannou Centre, University of Oxford, 66 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LU (in person) 9.30am-5.30pm. More information https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/anatolian-languages-and-linguistics-summer-school-0
Saturday 27 June 2026: Lucia Gahlin The Ramesseum before and after Ramesses II – pre-use and re-use of a 19th dynasty site, Davison CE High School for Girls, Selborne Road, Worthing, West Sussex, BN11 2JX (in person) 2pm. More information https://www.egyptology-uk.com/events_venues.htm
Saturday 27 June 2026: Rosalind Janssen Death, disease and mummies in ancient Egypt, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 10.45am. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/disease-death-and-mummies-in-ancient-egypt
Sunday 27 June 2026: various “Preserving” Egyptian heritage – a tale as old as time? Khalili Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental and African Studies, Torrington Square, London WC1H 0XG (in person & online) 1-6pm. More information https://www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/events/preserving-egyptian-heritage-a-tale-as-old-as-time.html
Saturday 27 June 2026: Mohamed Osman Abdollah Tracks on the sand – the desert hinterlands in ancient Egypt, Oakwood Centre, Headley Road RG5 4JB (in person) 2pm. More information https://www.tvaes.org.uk
Monday 29 June to Friday 3 July 2026: Kit Devine Hieroglyphs – the next step, Bloomsbury Campus University College London (in person) 10am. More information https://www.bssac.uk/bssa-programme-2026.htm#hieroglyphs-next-2026-1
Monday 29 June to Friday 3 July 2026: Christina Geisen Crime, sorcery & scandal – a somewhat different view of Egypt, University College London (in person & online) time tba. More information https://www.bssac.uk/bssa-programme-2026.htm#ae-crime-2026
JULY 2026
Sunday 5 July 2026: Frederico Zangani The Armarna period and its place in the history of globalisation, Spring Lodge Community Centre, Powers End, Witham, Essex CM8 2HE (in person) 3pm. More information https://www.essexegyptology.co.uk/?page_id=35
Sunday 5 July to Saturday 11 July 2026: Aphrodite Papayianni Byzantine centres of splendour, Christ Church, St Aldates, Oxford OX1 1DP (in person). More information https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/byzantine-centres-of-splendour?code=O25I102OER
Monday 6 to Wednesday 8 July 2026: various Orientalism and the Levant during the second half of the second millennium (1500-2000), The Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE, time tbc. More information https://www.aramsociety.org/conferences/current-conferences/
Monday 6 to Friday 10 July 2026: Luigi Prada Reading hieroglyphs – dreams, epiphanies and oracles at the court of pharaoh, Bloomsbury Campus University College London (in person) time tba. More information https://www.bssac.uk/bssa-programme-2026.htm#reading-hieroglyphs2-2026
Monday 6 to Friday 10 July 2026: Penny Wilson Archaeology of a lost – but famous - royal city, Bloomsbury Campus University College London (in person & online) time tba. More information https://www.bssac.uk/bssa-programme-2026.htm#sais-2026
Tuesday 7 to Wednesday 8 July 2026: various The pursuit of happiness – emotional flourishing in early Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Aga Khan Centre, 10 Handyside Street, London NC1 4DN (in person) 9am-5pm. More information https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/british-academy-conferences/before-pursuit-happiness-emotional-flourishing-early-judaism-christianity-islam/
Wednesday 8 to Friday 10 July 2026: various Order out of chaos - classification and categories in the Ancient Near East, University College London Bloomsbury Conference (in person & online). More information https://edubalondon.wixsite.com/eduba-london/conference-2026
Saturday 11 July to Saturday 18 July 2026: Rosalind Janssen Activists, artists and archaeologist – pioneer women Egyptologists, Rewley House, 1 Wellington Sq, Oxford OX1 2JA (in person). More information https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/activists-artists-and-archaeologists-pioneer-women-egyptologists?code=O25I101SSR
Monday 13 to Wednesday 15 July 2026: various The Arameans and Aramaic from the Ancient Near East to the Roman Near East, The Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE, time tbc. More information https://www.aramsociety.org/conferences/current-conferences/
Monday 13 to Friday 17 July 2026: Irvine Finkel & Lloyd Llewellyn Jones Babylon – mother of all cities, Bloomsbury Campus University College London (in person & online) time tba. More information https://www.bssac.uk/bssa-programme-2026.htm#babylon-2026
Monday 13 to Friday 17 July 2026: Marcel Marée The trade in cultural property – problems and answers, Bloomsbury Campus University College London (in person) time tba. More information https://www.bssac.uk/bssa-programme-2026.htm#cultural-property-2026
Tuesday 14 to Thursday 23 July 2026: various London Summer School in Classics (Greek & Latin, plus Sanskrit, Hittite, Akkadian, Sumerian, and New Testament/Koine Greek subject to demand) UCL Bloomsbury Campus & Kings College London) (in person) times tbc. More information https://www.ucl.ac.uk/short-courses/search-courses/london-summer-school-classics
Saturday 18 July 2026: Jan Moje Shabtis (online) 2pm. More information https://www.southamptonancientegyptsociety.co.uk/programme.php
Sunday 19 to Saturday 25 July 2026: Aphrodite Papayianni The eternal Alexander the Great – reality, myth, legacy, Christ Church, St Aldates, Oxford OX1 1DP (in person). More information https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/the-eternal-alexander-the-great-reality-myth-legacy?code=O25I305OER
Monday 20 to Friday 24 July 2026: Irvine Finkel Beginning Babylonian, Bloomsbury Campus University College London (in person) time tba. More information https://www.bssac.uk/bssa-programme-2026.htm#babylonian-2026
Monday 20 to Friday 24 July 2026: Lloyd Llewellyn Jones Cleopatra – from Egyptian queen to global icon, Bloomsbury Campus University College London (in person & online) time tba. More information https://www.bssac.uk/bssa-programme-2026.htm#cleopatra-2026
Mondays 20 July to 10 August 2026: Sean Gabb Reading Herodotus (online) 2pm. More informationhttps://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/reading-herodotus
Thursday 30 July – Saturday 1 August 2026: various 59th Seminar for Arabian Studies (online). More information https://iasarabia.org/the-seminar/
Friday 31 July 2026: various Private view of Routes, Ruins and Reconnaissance – exhibition on the life and career of Gertrude Bell, Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR (in person) 6.30pm. More information https://www.rgs.org/events/upcoming-events/routes-ruins-reconnaissance-private-viewing
AUGUST 2026
Sunday 2 August 2026: Jo Rowland Naqada and Nubt in the 21st century – re-evaluating prehistoric and historic contexts in the archive and the field (online) 3pm. More information https://www.essexegyptology.co.uk/?page_id=35
Sunday 2 August to Saturday 8 August 2026: Rosalind Janssen Life, love and loss in an ancient Egyptian village, Christ Church, St Aldates, Oxford OX1 1DP (in person) time tba. More information https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/life-love-and-loss-in-an-ancient-egyptian-village?code=O25I512OER
Saturday 22 August 2026: Piers Litherland Title tba, Brighton Hove & Sussex 6th Form College, 205 Dyke Road, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 6EG (in person) 2pm. More information https://www.egyptology-uk.com/events_venues.htm
SEPTEMBER 2026
Sunday 6 September 2026: Aidan Dobson Amenhotep son of Hapu – nobleman and demi-god, Spring Lodge Community Centre, Powers End, Witham, Essex CM8 2HE (in person) 3pm. More information https://www.essexegyptology.co.uk/?page_id=35
Saturday 19 September 2026: Barnaud Quertinmont The Egyptological collection of the royal Museum of Mariemont (online) 2pm. More information https://www.southamptonancientegyptsociety.co.uk/programme.php
Saturday 26 September 2026: Carl Graves Howard Carter – from tracer to Tutankhamun, Davison CE High School for Girls, Selborne Road, Worthing, West Sussex, BN11 2JX (in person) 2pm. More informationhttps://www.egyptology-uk.com/events_venues.htm
Mondays 28 September to 30 November 2026: Rachel Montagu Biblical Hebrew advanced – module 1 9online) 4pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/biblical-hebrew-advanced-module-1
Tuesdays 29 September to 1 December 2026: Dillon Kelly Biblical Hebrew 2 – module 1, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 6pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/biblical-hebrew-2-module-1
Tuesdays 29 September to 1 December 2026: Michael Duigan The female Horus – Hatshepsut, Queen of Egypt, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 12.30pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/the-female-horus-hatshepsut-queen-of-egypt
Wednesdays 30 September to 2 December 2026: Rachel Montagu Biblical Hebrew 3 – module 1 (online) 6pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/biblical-hebrew-3-module-1
Wednesdays 30 September to 2 December 2026: Dillon Kelly Sanskrit 1 – module 1 (online) 6pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/sanskrit-1-module-1
OCTOBER 2026
Saturdays 3 October to 5 December 2026: Vaughan Pilikian Languages of the ancient Near East part 1 – Sumerian, Akkadian, Egyptian, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 4pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/languages-of-the-ancient-near-east-part-1-sumerian-akkadian-egyptian
Saturdays 3 October to 5 December 2026: Vaughan Pilikian Sumerian level 2 – module 1, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 4pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/sumerian-level-2-module-1
Sunday 4 October 2026: Heidi Köpp-Junk Abydos in the Early Dynastic period – the tomb of Khsasekhemwy (online) 3pm. More information https://www.essexegyptology.co.uk/?page_id=35
Thursdays 15 October to 19 November 2026: Hugo Cook Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs and introduction (online) 6pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/ancient-egyptian-hieroglyphs-an-introduction-online
Saturday 24 October 2026: Hugo Cook Deciphering the Rosetta Stone, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 10.30am. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/deciphering-the-rosetta-stone
Saturday 31 October 2026: Kristine Reinhold Double, double, toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble – fiery cauldrons of the nether world, Business & Enterprise Centre, Forest School, Comptons Lane, Horsham, West Sussex, RH13 5NT (in person) 2pm. More information https://www.egyptology-uk.com/events_venues.htm
NOVEMBER 2026
Sunday 1 November 2026: Sonia Prakash Faience rings and broad collars, Spring Lodge Community Centre, Powers End, Witham, Essex CM8 2HE (in person) 3pm. More information https://www.essexegyptology.co.uk/?page_id=35
Thursdays 12 to 19 November 2026: Rachel Montagu Introduction to the Hebrew alphabet (online) 1.30pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/introduction-to-the-hebrew-alphabet
Saturday 14 November 2026: Christina Geisen & Kelly Accetta Crowe Materiality of things – the hidden power of ancient Egyptian objects, UCL Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1 0PY (in person & online) 10.30am. More information https://www.bssac.uk/study-days.htm
Wednesday 18 to Saturday 21 November 2026: various American Society of Overseas Research annual meeting (online). More information https://www.asor.org/am/
Saturday 21 to Thursday 24 November 2026: various Society of Biblical Literature annual meeting (online). More information https://10times.com/e1r5-s5f4-h9ds#google_vignette
Saturday 21 November 2026: Yentl Love Women in the ancient Near East, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 4pm. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/women-in-the-ancient-near-east
Saturdays & Sundays 21 November to 5 December 2026: Kit Devine Hieroglyphs – the next steps (online) 10am. More information https://www.bssac.uk/bssa-programme-2026.htm#hieroglyphs-next-2026-2
Sunday 22 November 2026: Luigi Prada A taste of Coptic (online) time tba. More information https://www.bssac.uk/bssa-programme-2026.htm#taste-coptic-2026
Saturday 28 November 2026: Rosalind Janssen Non-elite women in ancient Egypt, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 11am. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/non-elite-women-in-ancient-egypt
DECEMBER 2026
Wednesday 2 December 2026: Roberta Marin Communication and trade routes between the Mediterranean and Asia, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 10am. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/communication-and-trade-routes-between-the-mediterranean-and-asia
Friday 4 December 2026: Roberta Marin Treasures of Byzantine art and architecture, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 10.30 am. More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/treasures-of-byzantine-art-and-architecture
JANUARY 2027
Wednesday 6 to Friday 8 January 2027: various 11th International Conference on Iranian Linguistics, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA (in person). More information https://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/events/eleventh-international-conference-iranian-linguistics-icil-11
ONGOING
Fridays Achaemenid royal inscriptions reading group, University College London Bloomsbury Campus, 2-3pm. More information https://edubalondon.wixsite.com/eduba-london/general-8
To Sunday 12 April 2026. Made in ancient Egypt, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RB (in person) 10am – 5pm Tuesday to Saturday, 12 – 7pm Sunday. More information https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/plan-your-visit/exhibitions/made-in-ancient-egypt
To Saturday 16 May 2026 (except 8-13 February) The Land Carries (artistic responses to Sudanese material in the collection), Petrie Museum, University College London, Malet Place, London WC1E 6BT (in person). More information https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-collections/events/2025/nov/land-carries
To 16 May 2026 Broken, burnt, buried – ritual lives of objects in ancient Egypt, Petrie Museum, University College London, Malet Place, London WC1E 6BT (in person) Tuesday to Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-5pm. More information https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-collections/events/2025/jul/broken-burnt-buried-ritual-lives-objects-ancient-egypt
To Sunday 31 May Ramses and the pharaoh’s gold – the exhibition, NEON, Battersea Power Station, 2 Circus Road East, London SW11 8QD (in person) 10am – 6pm. More information https://feverup.com/m/503872?cp_landing=cta_hero&cp_landing_term=cta_hero&cp_landing_source=ramsestheexhibition.co&utm_source=egyptologyforum&thm=825&utm_medium=referral
To summer 2026 Wednesdays (Akkadian Level 1): A. Gratius Avitus Akkadian with the communicative approach, University College London (in person, not for credit, no fee) for location contact aggfvavitus@yahoo.co.uk, 5pm. More information https://www.ucl.ac.uk/classics/study/clubs-and-societies/living-classical-languages-society
Monday 3 August to Monday 24 August. Routes, Ruins and Reconnaissance – exhibition on the life and career of Gertrude Bell, Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR (in person) 10am – 5pm Mondays to Fridays only. More information https://www.rgs.org/events/upcoming-events/routes-ruins-reconnaissance-exhibition
From Thursday 8 October 2026 to Sunday 11 April 2027 Aphrodite – the making of a goddess, Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont St, Oxford OX1 2PH (in person). More information https://www.ashmolean.org/exhibition/aphrodite-the-making-of-a-goddess
To Saturday 12 December 2026: Various Out-of-hours tour: an introduction to ancient Egypt, British Museum, Great Russell St, London WCIB 3DG (in person) 8.50 – 10am. Book https://www.britishmuseum.org/events/out-hours-tour-introduction-ancient-egypt
To Sunday 13 December 2026: Various Out-of-hours tour: life and death in ancient Egypt, British Museum, Great Russell St, London WCIB 3DG (in person) 8.50 – 10am. Book https://www.britishmuseum.org/events/out-hours-tour-life-and-death-ancient-egypt
To March 2028. All eyes on her! How Egyptian women are reclaiming their heritage, Horniman Museum & Gardens, 100 London Road, London SE 23 3PQ (in person) 10am – 5.30pm. More information https://www.horniman.ac.uk/event/all-eyes-on-her/