Short courses

Summary

This course focuses on the material culture of both lived and funerary spaces in ancient Egypt. Students will study a broad range of sites both within and on the borders of the Egyptian world - from villages like Amarna and Deir el-Medina, to quarry sites like Hatnub and Serabit el-Khadim, to necropoleis like Saqqara and the West Bank of Thebes. Students will also learn about the key figures in Egyptian archaeology of the past 

 By the end of the course students should be able to: 

• identify and discuss the main theoretical issues in Egyptian archaeology, and the effect they have had (and continue to have) on the practice of archaeology, including how they have affected key archaeologists of the past 

• discuss the opinions they have formed on the issues surrounding the treatment of excavated material in museum contexts 

• interpret material evidence from ancient Egypt, from broader settlement patterns across time to the specifics of particular sites 

• compare and contrast the lived and funerary domains.