IEAA, University of Memphis

Research affiliated faculty Suzanne Onstine part of NSF funded research on the ancient Nile:

The Egyptian pyramid chain was built along the now abandoned Ahramat Nile Branch - Communications Earth & Environment The pyramids of the Western desert in Egypt were built alongside a now extinct branch of the Nile River named as the Ahramat Branch and identified using a combination of radar satellite imagery, geophysical data and deep soil coring.

2 lectures by Dr. Luigi Prada in Memphis this week - Tuesday and Wednesday. See flyers for details

Please join us October 26, 2023 on the University of Memphis campus for a lecture by Dr. Jacquelyn Williamson: Nefertiti and her Sun temple at Tell el-Amarna. 7 pm in the Fountain View room of the University Center. Sorry, there are no plans to live-stream or record the lecture at this time. (see the previous post for the lecture poster)

IEAA Director, Dr. Lorelei Corcoran at the recent International Congress of Egyptologists in Leiden. She won 2nd place for her poster!

Great article about the 17 new pyramids found through infra-red satellite surveys:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-13522957

Lost pyramids spotted from space Seventeen lost pyramids are among buildings identified from new infra-red images in a satellite survey of Egypt.

Public lectures & community outreach events sponsored by the IEAA at the University of Memphis
Memphis, TN

Please
join us for an upcoming lecture by Dr. Barry Kemp from the University Cambridge, titled: "Towards a Better Understanding of Amarna:
Recent Research in the City and Its Main Cemetery." Visit the IEAA
website for more info: http://www.memphis.edu/egypt/murnanelecture.php

Please join us for an upcoming lecture by Dr. Jerome C Rose from the University of Arkansas, titled: “Akhenaten’s People Speak: Tell el-Amarna, Egypt (c. 1325 BCE).” Visit the IEAA website for more info: http://www.memphis.edu/egypt/roselecture.php

http://www.memphis.edu/releases/may10/mummy.htm

University News The University of Memphis - University News - Two Mummies at U of M Art Museum Get New