London Diary
for the
Ancient Near East

MARCH 2026
 

Sunday 1 March 2026: Kathryn Piquette & Mick Oakley New research on the making of the Narmer Palette, Spring Lodge Community Centre, Powers End, Witham, Essex CM8 2HE (in person) 3pm. More information https://www.essexegyptology.co.uk/?page_id=35

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Sundays 1 & Saturday 7 March 2026: Salima Ikram Reading Egyptian art (online) 2pm.  More information https://kemetklub.co.uk/product/reading-egyptian-art/

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Monday 2 March 2026: Jenny Webb The archaeology of Bronze Age Lapithos from 1913 to 2025 (online) 5.30pm.  More information https://www.ucy.ac.cy/aru/wp-content/uploads/sites/251/2026/01/LECTURE-PROGRAM-SPRING-SEMESTER-2026.pdf

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Monday 2 March 2026: Glynnis Maynard Transplants in the heartland after 612 BCE? “Post Assyrian” perspectives from the site of Qach Rresh in Iraqi Kurdistan, 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. 

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Tuesday 3 March 2026: Hana Navratilova  Lives in Egyptology - the story of Who was Who (online) 1pm.  More information https://www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/events/lives-in-egyptology-the-story-of-who-was-who.html

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Tuesday 3 March 2026: Lara Bampfield Material histories, digital futures – rethinking cylinder seals, McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3ER (in person) 5.15pm.  More information https://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/242251

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Tuesday 3 March 2026: Hindy Najman  Scriptural vitality and the shaping of Jewish tradition (online) 6pm.  More information https://aias.org.uk/lectures-forthcoming/

Tuesdays 3 to 31 March 2026: Luigi Prada Reading daily life texts from the New Kingdom (online) 7.30pm.  More information https://kemetklub.co.uk/product/reading-daily-life-texts-from-the-new-kingdom/

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Wednesday 4 March 2026: Almut Hinze The past in the present – endangered heritage in the Zoroastrian culture (online) 5pm.  More information https://events.iu.edu/iaunrc/event/2181521-jean-and-denis-sinor-faculty-fellowship-lecture-dr

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Thursday 5 March 2026: Holger Zellentin What can the Qur’an teach us about the Arabian Jews at the Beginning of Islam, The Ferguson Nazareth Room, Dolby Quarter, Pembroke College, Cambridge (in person) 5pm.  More information https://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/events/john-and-mary-bennett-lecture-2026-what-can-quran-teach-us-about-arabian-jews-beginning

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Thursday 5 March 2026: various Panel discussion on Egyptian coffins, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RB (in person) 1.30pm.  More information https://tickets.museums.cam.ac.uk/10065/10069

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Thursdays 5 March to 2 April 2026: Jen Turner Women in ancient Egyptian art (online) 6pm.  More information https://www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/events/women-in-ancient-egyptian-art.html

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Friday 6 March 2026: Marie Vandenbeusch & John Taylor Henry Salt and hist first collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities, 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/

 

Friday 6 March 2026: Nancy Highcock Fieldwork on late 1st millennium BCE in the Konya Plain, Lecture Theatre, Institute of Archaeology, 36 Beaumont St, Oxford, OX1 2PG (in person) 4pm.  More information https://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/archit/documents/media/26_ht_was_term_card.pdf

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Friday 6 March 2026: Margarita Gleba Archaeological science of the Scythian perishable material culture of Ukraine, McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3ER (in person & online) 1.15pm.  More information https://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/243109

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Friday 6 March 2026: Claudia Näser  Deir el_Medina – getting to know the village and its occupants through objects in the Petrie Museum, 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/

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Sunday 8 March 2026: Geoff Emberling New light on ancient Napata – urban centre of the empire of Kush (online) 2pm. More information https://www.tvaes.org.uk

Monday 9 March 2026: Ben Russell Long-term urban change at Afrodisias – new results from the Place of Palms and the Governor’s House (online) 5.10pm.  More information https://biaa.ac.uk/events/long-term-urban-change-at-aphrodisias/

 

Monday 9 March 2026: Ahmad al-Jallad Is Palaeo-Arabic Classical Arabic? Towards a grammatical sketch of the Arabic inscriptions on the eve of Islam, Room 10, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA (in person) 5pm.  More information https://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/events/paleo-arabic-classical-arabic-towards-grammatical-sketch-arabic-inscriptions-eve-islam

 

Mondays 9 to 30 March 2026: Yentl Love The epic of Gilgamesh – part 2 (online) 7pm.  More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/the-epic-of-gilgamesh-part-2

 

Tuesday 10 March 2026: Solomon Whitehouse View of the gods – a viewshed analysis study of the Ur III ziggurats, G09 Gordon House, 29 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PP (in person & online) 5pm.  More information https://edubalondon.wixsite.com/eduba-london/seminar-series

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Wednesday 11 March 2026: Georgian Barker Preparing for eternity – funerary art in ancient Egypt (online) 12pm.  More information https://www.britishmuseum.org/events/members-exclusive/preparing-eternity-funerary-art-ancient-egypt

 

Friday 13 March 2026: John MacGinnis The Assyrian world and western Iran, India & Iran Trust, 23 Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge CB2 8BG (in person) 5.30pm.  More information https://www.indiran.org/whats-on/

 

Saturday 14 March 2026: Lyn Green Wonderful things – 12 fabulous artifacts from ancient Egypt (online) 5pm.  More information https://sites.google.com/site/arcedc01/events-lectures/2026-3-14-fabulous-artifacts

 

Saturday 14 March 2026: Hilary Wilson  Egypt and what to see there, 1912 – a snapshot of Egyptology, Oakwood Centre, Headley Road RG5 4JB (in person) 2pm.  More information https://www.tvaes.org.uk

 

Sundays 15 & 29 March 2026: Maiken Mosleth King The emergence of ancient writing (online) 2pm.  More information https://kemetklub.co.uk/product/the-emergence-of-ancient-writing/

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Monday 16 to Wednesday 18 March 2026: Judith Herrin  Before “East” and “West, Council Room KIN214, Strand Campus, King’s College (in person) 7pm.  More information https://www.angloturkishsociety.org.uk

 

Monday 16 March 2026: Ben Dewar Scribes of Xul - history, horror and the occult in death metal receptions of ancient Mesopotamia, 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. 

 

Wednesday 18 March 2026: John Hyland Persia’s Greek campaigns – kingship, war and spectacle (online) 5pm.  More information https://www.bips.ac.uk/event/persias-greek-campaigns-kingship-war-spectacle/

 

Thursday 19 March 2026: Benjamin Roberts Land’s End to the Levant – exploring the Bronze-Iron Age tin trade across Europe and the Mediterranean (online) 12.30pm.  More information https://www.sal.org.uk/event/lands-end-to-the-levant/

 

Saturday 21 March 2026: Judith Bunbury  Ancient landscapes, climate change and the tomb of Tuthmose II (online) 2pm.  More information https://www.southamptonancientegyptsociety.co.uk/programme.php

 

Saturdays 21 & 28 March, 11 & 18 April and Sunday 19 April 2026: Kit Devine Reading hieroglyphs – thinking about mortality (online) 10am–5.15pm.  More information https://www.bssac.uk/bssa-programme-2026.htm#reading-hieroglyphs1-2026

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Monday 23 to Tuesday 24 March 2026: various Oxford Postgraduate Conference in Assyriology, Wolfson College, Linton Road, Oxford OX2 6UD, time tbc.  More information https://www.facebook.com/opcassyriology/

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Monday 23 March 2026: Frank Simons Burn your way to health and happiness – the ritual and incantation series Šurpu, 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. 

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Tuesday 24 March 2026: Daniele Borkowski & Eleanor Home  Landscapes and poetics in the ancient Near East – summary remarks and roundtable discussion, G09 Gordon House, 29 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PP (in person & online) 5pm.  More information https://edubalondon.wixsite.com/eduba-london/seminar-series

 

Tuesdays 24 March to 31 April 2026: Christina Geisen  Ancient Egyptian funerary texts (online) 6pm. More information https://www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/events/ancient-egyptian-funerary-texts.html

 

Wednesday 25 March 2026: Damian Robinson The changing maritime façade of Alexandria from the Ptolemaic to the Roman period – survey and excavation in the Portus Magnus (online) 4pm.  More information https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/events/archaeologyevents/seminars/

 

Saturday 28 March 2026: Chris Naunton  Antinous, Sutekh and a time lord walk into a cocktail bar – a lecture in tribute to John J Johnston, 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

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Monday 30 March 2026: Cristiana Kelepeshi Ceramic technology at the site of Sagalassos (S W Anatolia) in the long durée – an archaeometric and experimental study of Hellenistic slipped table ware and Roman Imperial to Byzantine Sagalassos Red Slip Ware (online) 4.30pm.  More information https://www.ucy.ac.cy/aru/wp-content/uploads/sites/251/2026/01/LECTURE-PROGRAM-SPRING-SEMESTER-2026.pdf

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APRIL 2026
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

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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/

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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

 

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

 

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

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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

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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

 

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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. 

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

 

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

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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

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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

 

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

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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

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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

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Sunday 7 June 2026: Filip Taterka Hatshepsut and Senenmut – a romantic history (online) 3pm. More information https://www.essexegyptology.co.uk/?page_id=35

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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/

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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

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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

 

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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JULY 2026

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/

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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

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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

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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

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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/

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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Mondays 20 July to 10 August 2026: Sean Gabb Reading Herodotus (online) 2pm.  More informationhttps://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/reading-herodotus

 

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

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AUGUST 2026

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

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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

 

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SEPTEMBER 2026

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

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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

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OCTOBER 2026
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

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NOVEMBER 2026
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

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