London Diary
for the
Ancient Near East

LCANE London Diary
Where a talk occurs outside the LCANE area* it is always listed as online, even though it may also be held in person in the place it takes place. *The LCANE area contains that part of England than is south of Cambridge and east of Oxford.

 

The events listed include those talks & exhibitions covering topics from

• the Palaeolithic to the coming of Islam

• western Anatolia to central Asia, the Nile valley to Gujarat

• the Caucasus to Arabia

ONGOING
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 31 October 2026 Ramses and the pharaoh’s gold – the exhibition, NEON,  Battersea Power Station, 2 Circus Road East, London SW11 8QD (in person) 10am – 6pm.  More informationhttps://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

 

From Saturday 7 November 2026 to 9 May 2027. Constantinople to Istanbul – one city, two empires, Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL.  More informationhttps://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/constantinople-to-istanbul-one-city-two-empires

 

To 30 November 2026 The Timewalk exhibition – an immersive journey through civilisations (includes Gobekli Tepe, the Ishtar gate of Babylon and celestial rituals of ancient Egypt), Immersive LDN, Excel Waterfront, Royal Victoria Dock 1 Western Gateway, London E16 1XL.  More information https://feverup.com/m/645712?irclickid=S8j1ql0MgxycUJeRA7WT92yOUkuTxYTtnTnsyI0&afsrc=1&irgwc=1&utm_medium=impact&utm_campaign&utm_source=affiliate&utm_content=1303043_IanVisits

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 Friday 13 February 2027 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 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 informationhttps://www.horniman.ac.uk/event/all-eyes-on-her/

 

OCTOBER 2026
Thursdays 1 October to 3 December 2026: Vaughan Pilikian Sanskrit reading group (online) 4.30pm.  More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/sanskrit-reading-group

Thursdays 1 October to 3 December 2026: Rachel Montagu Biblical Hebrew 2 – module 1 (online) 4pm.   More information  https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/biblical-hebrew-2-module-1

Thursday 1 October 2026: Christoph Baumer & Therese Weber Rock art and its legacy in myth & art (petroglyphs in Central Asia & Arabia etc) Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre, 14 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2HD (in person & online) 6.30pm.  More information https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/christoph-baumer-and-therese-weber-rock-art-and-its-legacy-in-myth-and-art/

 

Friday 2 October 2026: various Rock art in the Caucasus and adjacent regions (online) 1pm. Zoom link <https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/89924246422>

 

Saturday 3 October 2026: Hilary Wilson Bread, beer and economics – the moneyless society, Itchen College, Middle Road, Bitterne, Southampton SO19 7TB (in person) 2pm.  More information https://www.southamptonancientegyptsociety.co.uk/programme.php

 

Saturdays 3 October to 5 December 2026: Vaughan Pilikian Akkadian 1 – module 1, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 11.30am.  More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/akkadian-1-module-1

 

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: Sergio Alarcón Robledo Early Dynastic Saqqara (online) 3pm.  More information https://www.essexegyptology.co.uk/?page_id=35

Monday 5 October 2026: Matthias Recke Second time’s charm – the new excavations at the Apollo sanctuary of Tamassos-Frangissa, results and perspectives (online) 5.30pm. More informationhttps://www.ucy.ac.cy/aru/wp-content/uploads/sites/251/2026/09/LECTURE-PROGRAMME-WINTER-SEMESTER-2026.pdf

Tuesday 6 October to 8 December 2026: Michael Duigan The female Horus – Hatshepsut, Queen of Egypt, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 11.30am.  More informationhttps://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/the-female-horus-hatshepsut-queen-of-egypt

Wednesday 7 October 2026: Fiametta Gori From administrative records to economic data – social scientific approaches to the Ebla archive (online) 5pm. Followed by Jeremy Land The mythical absence of economic data in the ancient Near East.  More information https://www.facebook.com/ARWArchaeology. Zoom link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84988092077?pwd=wz26TlJwP3xfgmk4yZbPczEjRypy0u.1

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Wednesday 7 October: Seth Richardson Thief, “Tooth” & Trickster – on some Babylonian false identities, LG11 Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens, London WC1H 0EG (in person & online) 6.15pm. More information https://www.banea-lcane.co.uk/event-details-registration/lecture-by-seth-richardson

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Thursdays 8 October to 5 November 2026: Katie Campbell Beneath the sands – the archaeology of Silk Road cities in Central Asia, Ewert House, Ewert Place, Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 7DD (in person) 2pm.  More information

Thursday 8 October 2026: various Marks of a maker (Egyptian coffin conservation), Object Based Learning Laboratory, Wilkins Building, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1 (in person) 6pm. More information https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-collections/events/2026/oct/marks-maker-conversation

 

Thursday 8 October 2026: Davide Nadali Drawing the divine – seeing, making and encountering gods in ancient Mesopotamia and Syria (online) 4pm. Registration k.przylecka@uw.edu.pl or l.oksuz@uksw.edu.plor

 

Thursday 8 October 2026: Loren Stuckenbruck, Eshbal Ratzon & Henryk Drawnel Enoch and the cosmos (online) 2pm.   More informationhttps://www.tickettailor.com/events/uclinstituteofjewishstudies/2426528

 

Thursday 8 October 2026: Işılay Gürsu & Zeynep Boz  “Public Dialogues in Archaeology: New Methodologies from Turkey” book launch (online) 3pm. More informationhttps://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bUR9ednISs2QM5cRNJbsgw#/registration

 

Friday 9 to Monday 11 October 2026: various 3rd Graduate Forum of Mediterranean Archaeology (FOMARC) (online).  More information https://www.ucy.ac.cy/fomarc/?fbclid=IwY2xjawT5EmtwZG9mAWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAGJyaWQRMDZ0Y3hFSlVkT2ZkZWVDUjZzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEetqiXlxed4NwFNlCo54ZSwGOcn38v7fFr6UqGIx30eX21FzBXj14LFIbJKfs_aem_V4FMTchA13hm2ijHiY8kzg

 

Saturday 10 October 2026: Hana Vymazalova Recent archaeological work at South Saqqara, (online) 2pm.  More information https://www.tvaes.org.uk

 

Mondays 12 October to 16 November 2026: Hugo Cook Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs – an introduction (online) 3.45pm.  More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/ancient-egyptian-hieroglyphs-an-introduction-online

 

Monday 12 October 2027: Bryony Renshaw Victorian women and their (ancient Egyptian) collections (online) 7.45 pm.  More information https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maes-zoom-bryony-renshaw-victorian-women-their-collections-tickets-1993829594991

 

Tuesday 13 October 2026: Ida Ceccarelli How clay figurines and their distribution can help to understand the construction of gender identity in the first half of the III millennium in Mesopotamia, Room 309, 29 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PP (in person & online) 5pm.  More information https://edubalondon.wixsite.com/eduba-london/seminar-series

 

Tuesday 13 October 2026: Carl Graves The Egypt Exploration Society – past , present and future (online) 4pm. More information https://www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/events/the-egypt-exploration-society-past-present-and-future.html

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Wednesday 14 October 2026: Ulrike Steinert Possession disorders in Mesopotamian medicine – interpreting ancient texts taking inspirations from anthropology (online) 5pm.  Followed by Caroline Wallis Towards an anthropology of ancient economic philosophies. https://www.facebook.com/ARWArchaeology. Zoom link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82667892110?pwd=4WR0MdSaRexVgRAy4dVzNf5CvzdaVW.1

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Thursday 15 October 2026: Nathan MacDonald Mapping the Twelve Tribes – a 2500year history, JW3, 341-351 Finchley Road, London NW3 6ET (in person) 6pm.  More informationhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aias-dr-richard-barnett-lecture-tickets-2001081275964

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 17 October 2026: Anja Ulbrich Aphrodite exhibition talk, Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont St, Oxford OX1 2PH (in person & online) 2pm.  More information 

 

Saturday 17 October: Silvia Zago The tomb of Amenemipet (TT265) at Deir el-Medina (online) 2pm.  More information https://www.southamptonancientegyptsociety.co.uk/programme.php
 

Saturday, 17 October 2026: Hugo Cook Egyptian myths, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA(in person) 10.30am.  More information: https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/egyptian-myths

 

Sundays 18 & 25 October 2026: Judith Bunbury Ancient Egyptian and their landscape – a history of change, resilience and relocation (online) 2pm.  More information https://kemetklub.co.uk/product/ancient-egyptians-and-their-landscape-a-history-of-change-resilience-and-relocation/

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Monday 19 October 2026: Dan Potter Reinstalling Egypt at the National Museum of Scotland, (in person & online), UCL Bloomsbury Campus, 6.15pm. More information https://www.banea-lcane.co.uk/lcane

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Monday 19 October 2026: Omar N’Shea Distributing sovereignty, sacrificing bodies – the Šar Puhi and the infrastructure of imperial masculinity in Neo-Assyrian kingship (online) 5pm.  Followed by Agnès Garcia Ventura Rebalancing the “I” and “we” in Assyriology – tools from gender studies.  More information https://www.facebook.com/ARWArchaeology  Zoom Link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88236358490?pwd=DrbVS7NtNef4yfEVWtSvUgcbrTeTkb.1

Monday 19 October 2026: Marie-Henriette Gates and Charles Gates Cilician Kinet Höyük, Cyprus, and the archaeology of seaports – Achaemenid Cilicia: Kinet Höyük and beyond (online) 5.30pm. More information https://www.ucy.ac.cy/aru/wp-content/uploads/sites/251/2026/09/LECTURE-PROGRAMME-WINTER-SEMESTER-2026.pdf

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Thursday 22 October 2026: James Osborne & Michele Massa The Türkmen-Karahöyük Archaeological Project: emerging themes from a newly discovered urban center in south-central Anatolia (online) 5pm.  More information https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminar/the-ancient-near-east/
 

Friday 23 October 2026: various “Peasant agriculture in the Jerusalem Hills” book launch, Notre Dame University, 1-4 Suffolk Street, London, SW1Y 4HG  (in-person & online)  6pm.  More information https://www.cbrl.ac.uk/event/peasant-agriculture-in-the-jerusalem-hills/

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Saturday 24 October 2026: David Bruegger Private statuary at Deir el-Medina (online) 2pm.  More information https://www.tvaes.org.uk

 

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

Monday 26 October 2027: Miltidias Polidorou The coast beneath the coast – geoarchaeology, heritage and the future of Akrotiri (online) 4.30pm. More information https://www.ucy.ac.cy/aru/wp-content/uploads/sites/251/2026/09/LECTURE-PROGRAMME-WINTER-SEMESTER-2026.pdf

Tuesday 27 October 2026: Arkadina Cadena Inanna’s Descent: the Feminist Katabasis, Room 309, 29 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PP (in person & online) 5pm.  More information https://edubalondon.wixsite.com/eduba-london/seminar-series

 

Wednesday 28 October 2026: Glenn Schwartz Urbanism in Second Millennium BC Northern Mesopotamia: Recent Results from Kurd Qaburstan (Ancient Qabra), LG 11, UCL Bentham House, 4-8 Endsleigh Gardens, London WC1H 0EG (in person & online) 6pm.  More information https://www.banea-lcane.co.uk/event-details-registration/lecture-by-glenn-schwartz-on-kurd-qaburstan

 

Wednesday 28 to Thursday 29 October 2026: various How to make religious spaces? Performativity and religious spaces in the southern Levant from archaeological and biblical perspectives (online). More information https://www.aramisrael.org/post/workshop-on-how-to-make-religious-spaces-leipzig-oct-28-29-2026

 

Wednesday 28 October 2026: Steve Kersha Aphrodite – the art of love, Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont St, Oxford OX1 2PH (members only, in person & online) 2pm.  More information https://www.ashmolean.org/event/members-talk-aphrodite-the-art-of-love

 

Thursday October 29 2026: Clément Dutrey Chronology of the Armarna correspondence and geopolitical dynamics in the Levant – a network analysis approach (online) 4pm.  Followed by Lucas G Freire Assyriology and modern theories of world politics.  More information https://www.facebook.com/ARWArchaeology Zoom link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81107057321?pwd=NBBo4XjgRx5HlddaXogXZGUydH7viz.1

 

Thursdays 29 October to 26 November 2026: Leah Packham-Grams Papyrology – in the words of the people (online) 6pm.  More information https://www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/events/papyrology-in-the-words-of-the-people.html

 

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 informationhttps://www.essexegyptology.co.uk/?page_id=35

Sunday 1 November 2026: Dylan Bickerstaffe The great god Min – his aspects and activities, Spring Lodge Community Centre, Powers End, Witham, Essex CM8 2HE (in person) 3pm.  More information https://www.essexegyptology.co.uk/?page_id=4400

Mondays 2 November to 21 December 2026: Henning Franzmeier (Nile) Delta discovery (online) 7.30pm.  More information https://kemetklub.co.uk/product/delta-discovery/

 

Tuesday 3 November 2026: Meg Gundlach Wide-eyed in anticipation – a distinctive series of shabtis from the EES excavations at Tell Nebasha (online) 1pm.  More information https://www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/events/wide-eyed-in-anticipation.html

 

Tuesday 3 November to 1 December 2026: Joseph Clayton Intermediate ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs (online) 6pm.  More information https://www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/events/intermediate-ancient-egyptian-hieroglyphs-26.html

 

Tuesdays 3 November to 15 December 2026: Luigi Prada Anarchy in Egypt! The dream stela of Tanutamani (online) 7.30pm. More information https://kemetklub.co.uk/product/anarchy-in-egypt-the-dream-stela-of-tanutamani/

Thursday 5 November 2026: Tim Stanley and Bella Radenovic Constantinople to Istanbul  - one city, two empires (V&A members only, online) 4pm.  More information https://www.vam.ac.uk/event/zEJRd1rVo/online-curator-talk-constantinople-to-istanbul

Friday 6 to Sunday 8 November 2026: various Feasts and festivals in ancient Egypt (online) time tba.  More information https://www.thessea.org/events2/symposium-2026

Friday 6 to Sunday 8 November 2026: various Feasts and festivals in ancient Egypt (online).  More information https://www.thessea.org/events2/symposium-2026

 

Monday 9 November 2026: Joachim Bretschnieder From harbour to hilltop – maritime connectivity and settlement organisation at late Bronze Age Pyla-Kokkinokremos (online) 4.30pm. More informationhttps://www.ucy.ac.cy/aru/wp-content/uploads/sites/251/2026/09/LECTURE-PROGRAMME-WINTER-SEMESTER-2026.pdf

Tuesday 10 November 2026: Irene Alberti Gender Matters: Women at Ebla (Syria, 24th Century BCE) from a Socio-Economic and Legal Perspective, Room 309, 29 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PP (in person & online) 5pm.  More information https://edubalondon.wixsite.com/eduba-london/seminar-series

 

Thursdays 12 November to 10 December 2026: Jade Whitlam Göbekli Tepe – exploring new ideas and evidence, Ewert House, Ewert Place, Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 7DD (in person) 2pm.  More information https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/gobekli-tepe-exploring-new-ideas-and-evidence/

Thursday 12 November 2026: Paul Bouchard From digital scans to wooden stools – handcrafting functional reproductions of Egyptian furniture (online) 7pm.  More information https://www.southamptonancientegyptsociety.co.uk/programme.php

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

Friday 13 November 2026: Simon Armitage & Paul Collins The Epic of Gilgamesh, British Museum, Great Russell St, London WCIB 3DG (in person) 6.30pm.  More information https://www.britishmuseum.org/events/in-conversation-simon-armitage-and-epic-gilgamesh

 

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

 

Saturday 14 November 2026: Roberta Marin An artistic history of Jerusalem, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 10.30am.  More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/an-artistic-history-of-jerusalem

 

Monday 16 November 2026 Panayiotis Panayides Beyond destruction – rethinking urban life in seventh- and eight-century Cyprus (online) 4.30pm. More information https://www.ucy.ac.cy/aru/wp-content/uploads/sites/251/2026/09/LECTURE-PROGRAMME-WINTER-SEMESTER-2026.pdf

Tuesday 17 November 2026: various Marks of a Maker – the stories (Egyptian) coffins tell us, Object Based Learning Laboratory, Wilkins Building, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1 (in person) 6pm. More information https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-collections/events/2026/nov/marks-maker-stories-coffins-tell-us

Wednesday 18 to Saturday 21 November 2026: various American Society of Overseas Research annual meeting (online).  More information https://www.asor.org/am/

Thursday 19 November 2026: Marinella Ceravolo Magic, witchcraft and ritual expertise – rethinking kišpū in ancient Mesopotamia (in person & online), Room 261 2nd floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1 7HU.  More information https://ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/events/magic-witchcraft-ritual-expertise-rethinking-kispu-ancient-mesopotamia

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

Saturday 21 November 2026: Ken Griffin Breathing life into death – the redevelopment of the Egyptian centre (online) 2pm. More information https://www.southamptonancientegyptsociety.co.uk/programme.php

Saturday 21 November 2026: Anja Ulbrich Aphrodite to Venus – the making of a goddess, Cyprus House, 13 St James Square, London SW1Y 4LB (in person) 2.30pm. More information https://www.culturalchc.co.uk/aphrodite-s-island-the-goddess-of-cyprus-and-her-journey-through-antiquity

 

Saturday 21 November 2026: Kristine Reinhold Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble – fiery cauldrons of the nether world, Coronation Hall, Headley Road, Woodley RG5 4JB (in person) 2pm. More information https://www.tvaes.org.uk

 

Sunday 22 November 2026: Thomas Kiely The archive of Grigoris Antoniou, Cyprus House, 13 St James Square, London SW1Y 4LB (in person) 11am. More information https://www.culturalchc.co.uk/discovering-ancient-cyprus-a-month-of-archaeology-mythology-and-cultural-heritage

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

 

Monday 23 November 2026: Raphael Laoutaris Silent connectivities – Cyprus in the Eastern Mediterranean during the second half of the 3rd millennium BCE (online) 4.30pm. More informationhttps://www.ucy.ac.cy/aru/wp-content/uploads/sites/251/2026/09/LECTURE-PROGRAMME-WINTER-SEMESTER-2026.pdf

Tuesday 24 November 2026: Hannah Goldin Who Controls a Woman’s Word? Gender and Household Authority in Numbers 30 and Ancient Near Eastern Law, Room 309, 29 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PP (in person & online) 5pm.  More information https://edubalondon.wixsite.com/eduba-london/seminar-series

 

Wednesday 25 November 2026: Nicholas Postgate ‘A Mesopotamian mezze – tapestries, toiletries and tannours, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW11Y 5AH (in person) 6pm.  More information https://www.bisi.ac.uk/event/lecture-10/

 

Saturday 28 November 2026: Aphrodite Papayianni The alluring legacy of Alexander the Great, Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JA (in person) 10am.  More information https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/the-alluring-legacy-of-alexander-the-great-o26p115hij/

 

Saturday 28 November 2026: Henry Bishop-Wright From tumulus to pyramid and back – death and burial in Kush from the 8th century BC to the 5th century AD, 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 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

Sunday 29 November 2026: Sophocles Hadjisavvas The olive culture – from antiquity to industrialisation (in person), Cypriot Community Centre, Earlham Grove, London N22 5HJ (in person) 4pm. More information https://www.culturalchc.co.uk/the-olive-culture-from-antiquity-to-industrialisation

Monday 30 November 2026: Kiersten Neuman Modern artistic responses (in person & online), UCL Bloomsbury Campus, 6pm. More information https://www.banea-lcane.co.uk/lcane

 

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

Friday 4 December 2026: William Sterling The Trojan War, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 11am.  More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/the-trojan-war

Sunday 6 December 2026: Heidi Köpp-Junk Abydos in the Early Dynastic period – the tomb of Khsasekhemmy (online) 3pm.  More information https://www.essexegyptology.co.uk/?page_id=35

 

Tuesday 8 December 2026: Lucrezia Manganelli Gender as a narrative construction for legitimizing authority in the Sargonic narratives from Mesopotamia to Anatolia, Room 309, 29 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PP (in person & online) 5pm.  More information https://edubalondon.wixsite.com/eduba-london/seminar-series

Tuesday 8 December 2026: Ed Scrivens Hathor in the archive – a view of the goddess through the collections of the Egypt Exploration Society (online) 3pm.  More information https://www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/events/hathor-in-the-archive.html

Friday 11 December 2026: Charlotte Roueché Digital Byzantium – joining the dots (online) 4.30pm. More information https://www.ucy.ac.cy/aru/wp-content/uploads/sites/251/2026/09/LECTURE-PROGRAMME-WINTER-SEMESTER-2026.pdf

Saturday 12 December 2026: various Early ceramic traditions in Cyprus and beyond – technology, practice and society from the Neolithic to the Chalcolithic (online) 6am- 3pm. More informationhttps://www.ucy.ac.cy/aru/wp-content/uploads/sites/251/2026/09/LECTURE-PROGRAMME-WINTER-SEMESTER-2026.pdf

Saturday 12 December 2026: Martin Odler Copper working in ancient Egypt – new insights into copper of ancient Egypt and Nubia (online) 2pm.  More information https://www.southamptonancientegyptsociety.co.uk/programme.php

Saturday 12 December 2026: Edward Scrivens Goddesses in Ramessid Egypt – examining divine feminine agency in three case studies from the reigns of Seti I and Ramesses II (in person) Coronation Hall, Headley Road, Woodley RG5 4JB (in person) 2pm. More information https://www.tvaes.org.uk

Sunday 13 December 2026: Anja Ulbrich Aphrodite to Venus – the making of a goddess, Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont St, Oxford OX1 2PH (in person) 2pm. More information https://www.culturalchc.co.uk/a-cyprus-weekend-in-oxford

 

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

Wednesday 6 to Thursday 7 January 2027: Justin Murray Grammar for ancient languages – an introduction (online) 6pm.  More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/grammar-for-ancient-languages-an-introduction

Saturday 9 January 2027: Roselyn A Campbell Cancer and medicine in ancient Egypt (online) 4pm.  More information https://www.tvaes.org.uk

Tuesdays 12 January to 16 March 2027: Hugo Cook Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs part 3 – module 2 (online) 6pm.  More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/ancient-egyptian-hieroglyphs-part-3-module-2

Tuesdays 12 January to 16 March 2027: Dillon Kelly Biblical Hebrew 2 – module 2 The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 6pm.  More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/biblical-hebrew-2-module-2

Tuesdays 12 January to 23 March 2027: Sayantani Neogi Ancient India - from Indus valley to rise of Buddhism (online) 10.30am.  More information https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/ancient-india-from-indus-valley-to-rise-of-buddhism-2/

Wednesdays 13 January to 17 March 2027: Rachel Montagu Biblical Hebrew 1 – module 2 (online) 3.30pm.  More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/biblical-hebrew-1-module-2

Wednesdays 13 January to 17 March 2027: Dillon Kelly Sanskrit 1 – module 2 (online) 6pm.  More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/sanskrit-1-module-2

Wednesdays 13 January to 24 March 2027: Stefano Salemi Biblical Hebrew beginners – part 2 (online) 7pm.  More information https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/biblical-hebrew-beginners-part-2-2/

Wednesdays 13 January to 26 March 2027: Sarah Doherty Ancient Egypt – an introduction (online).  More information https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/ancient-egypt-an-introduction-online-3/

Wednesday 13 January 2027: Vaughan Pilikian Sanskrit reading group (online) 5pm.  More informationhttps://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/sanskrit-reading-group

Thursday 14 January to 18 March 2027: Michael Bloomfield Seven ancient wonders of the world, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 3pm.  More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/seven-ancient-wonders-of-the-world

Saturday 16 January  2027: Vanessa Foott Bes (online) 2pm.  More information https://www.southamptonancientegyptsociety.co.uk/programme.php

Mondays 18 January to 22 March 2027: Rachel Montagu Biblical Hebrew advanced – module 2 (online) 4pm.  More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/biblical-hebrew-advanced-module-2

Mondays 18 January to 22 March 2027: Hugo Cook Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs part 4/5 – module 2, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 6pm.  More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/ancient-egyptian-hieroglyphs-part-4-5-module-2

Tuesdays 19 January to 16 February 2027: Yentl Love  The epic of Gilgamesh – part 1 (online) 7pm.  More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/the-epic-of-gilgamesh-part-1

Tuesdays 19 January to 23 March 2027: Rachel Montagu Biblical Hebrew 3 – module 2 (online) 11.30am.  More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/biblical-hebrew-3-module-2

Wednesdays 20 January to 24 March 2027: Aphrodite Papayianni Byzantium and its neighbours, Ewert House, Ewert Place, Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 7DD (in person) 2pm.  More information https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/byzantium-and-its-neighbours/

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Thursdays 21 January to 18 February 2027: Rosalind Janssen Ancient Egyptian grave goods, Ewert House, Ewert Place, Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 7DD (in person) 2pm.  More information https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/ancient-egyptian-grave-goods/

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Thursday 21 to Friday 22 January 2027: various  Critical digital archives – travel, translation, transformation.  A symposium on archives in and from the SWANA region, Woburn Suite G22/26 Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU (in person) 10am-5pm.  More information https://ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/events/critical-digital-archives-travel-translation-transformation

Saturdays 23 January to 27 March 2027: Vaughan Pilikian Languages of the ancient Near East part 2, 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-2

Saturdays 23 January to 27 March 2027: Vaughan Pilikian Sumerian level 2 – module 2, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 4pm.  More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/sumerian-level-2-module-2

Saturdays 23 January to 27 March 2027: Vaughan Pilikian Akkadian level 1 – module 2, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 11.30am.  More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/akkadian-1-module-2

Tuesday 26 January to 23 February 2027: Ann Jeffers Sex, gender roles and sexuality in ancient Israel (online) 6pm.  More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/sex-gender-roles-and-sexuality-in-ancient-israel

Tuesdays 26 January to 23 February 2027: tbc Jewish novels in the Hellenistic period (online) 3pm.  More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/jewish-novels-in-the-hellenistic-period

Wednesdays 27 January to 9 April 2027: Rachael Dann Ancient Mesopotamia and the Sumerians (online).  More information https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/ancient-mesopotamia-and-the-sumerians-online-3/

Thursdays 28 January to25 February 2027: 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 30 January 2027: Rosalind Janssen Tutankhamun – the pharaoh behind the golden mask, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 4pm.  More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/tutankhamun-the-pharaoh-behind-the-gold-mask

 

FEBRUARY 2027
Wednesdays 3 to 24 February 2027: Ann Jeffers Magic in the ancient world (online) 4pm.  More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/magic-in-the-ancient-world

Saturday 6 February 2027: Hugo Cook Daily life in ancient Egypt, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 10.30am.  More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/daily-life-in-ancient-egypt

Saturday 20 February 2027: Joyce Tyldesley Wise women – female power in ancient Egypt (online) 2pm.  More information https://www.southamptonancientegyptsociety.co.uk/programme.php

Saturday 20 February 2027: Roberta Marin  Art of Central Asia, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 10.30am.  More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/art-of-ancient-central-asia

Tuesdays 23 February to 23 March 2027:Yentl Love The epic of Gilgamesh – part 2 (online) 7pm.  More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/the-epic-of-gilgamesh-part-2

Wednesday 24 to Saturday 27 February 2027: various When coffins speak – at the crossroads of research and practice (online).  More informationhttps://www.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani/en/eventi-e-novita/iniziative/Eventi/2026/third-vatican-coffin-conference.html

MARCH 2027
Thursday 18 March 2027: various  Bioarchaeology in Türkiye – potentials and challenges in the historical periods (online) 6am-3pm.  More information https://biaa.ac.uk/events/bioarchaeology-in-turkiye-conference/

Saturday 20 March 2027: Roberta Marin Byzantium, Constantinople and Istanbul – the story of an iconic city, The City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA (in person) 10.30am.  More information https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/byzantium-constantinople-and-istanbul-the-story-of-an-iconic-city

 

Saturday 20 March 2027: Anke Weber News from the Valley of the Kings – ongoing work in the tomb of Ramesses III (KV11) (Online) 2pm.  More informationhttps://www.southamptonancientegyptsociety.co.uk/programme.php

 

APRIL 2027
Friday 2 to Sunday 4 April 2027: various Fake news and gossip in Byzantine culture – 57th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, The Open University, Milton Keynes. More information https://www.byzantium.ac.uk/news/

 

Tuesdays 13 April to 22 June 2027: Martin Michette Ancient architecture (online) 7pm.  More information https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/ancient-architecture-2/

Tuesdays 13 April to 22 May 2027: various Ancient architecture (online) 7pm.  More information https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/ancient-architecture-o26p742hcz/

Wednesdays 14 April to 26 June 2027: Stephani Salemi Biblical Hebrew beginners – consolidation (online) 7pm.  More information https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/biblical-hebrew-beginners-consolidation-2/

 

Thursdays 15 April to 24 June 2027: Stefano Salemi Biblical archaeology – ancient Israel and Judah (online) 5.30pm.  More information https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/biblical-archaeology-ancient-israel-and-judah/

 

Saturday 17 April 2027: Nicky van Beek Egypt’s natural environment through Old Kingdom tomb art (online) 2pm.  More information https://www.southamptonancientegyptsociety.co.uk/programme.php

 

Mondays 26 April to 9 July 2027: Sarah Doherty Ancient Egypt – an introduction (online).  More information https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/ancient-egypt-an-introduction-online-2/

MAY 2027
Wednesdays 5 May to 16 July 2027: Rachael Dann Ancient Mesopotamia and the Sumerians (online).  More information https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/ancient-mesopotamia-and-the-sumerians-online-2/

Saturday 15 May 2027: Lidija McKnight Raptors unwrapped – the exploitation of birds of prey in Late and Ptolemaic Egypt (online) 2pm.  More information https://www.southamptonancientegyptsociety.co.uk/programme.php

 

JUNE 2027
Saturday 19 June 2027: Beth Asbury Ancient Egyptian  religion – the cult of Osiris in theory and practice (online) 2pm.  More information https://www.southamptonancientegyptsociety.co.uk/programme.php

 

Tuesday 22 June 2027: Céline Gaslain-Leduc Hittite jewellery (1650-1190 BCE) – iconongraphy, typology and techniques, Society of Antiquaries of London, Burlington House, London, W1J 0BE (in person & online) 6pm.  More information https://www.societyofjewelleryhistorians.ac.uk/current_lectures

 

JULY 2027
Saturday 10 July 2027: Patryk Chuzik Deir el-Bahri fundraiser tbc.  More information https://www.southamptonancientegyptsociety.co.uk/programme.php