IEAA, University of Memphis

05/16/2024

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

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.

04/23/2024

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

10/16/2023

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)

10/16/2023

08/21/2023

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

05/26/2011

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

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

10/26/2010

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

10/26/2010

10/24/2010

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

10/24/2010

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

05/05/2010

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

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