Date: 5 March 2010
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Title: Horemheb & the genesis of 'Mithraism' in Ancient Egypt
Speaker: Rosalind Park
Rosalind Park will talk about
some speculations about Horemheb, and his 'tomb' at Saqqara not being a
tomb, but a type of clandestine meeting place for his army generals.
She will present arguments that the funerary texts of his later tomb in
the Valley of the Kings show that an Egyptian style type of 'Mithraism'
was
practiced some 1,500 years before Roman soldiers took hold of the ideology.
Madame Park has UK degrees in Archaeometry [B.Sc], & Cultural
Astronomy [MA], with archaeology post grad field-work done in Israel. A
member of the International Association of Egyptologists since 1998
and, from time to time, publishes and lectures on medicine and/or
religious astronomy in Ancient Egypt.
Note: This talk will be in room 162 of the Earth Sciences Building on the University of Calgary Campus.
Date: 9 April 2010
Title: Egypt Rocks: Buildings, Statues and the Geology of Egypt
Speaker: Paul English
Date: 7 May 2010
Title: Early farming in the Egyptian Nile Valley and in Northeastern Africa
Speaker: Mary McDonald
Date: 4 June 2010
Title: Abydos
Speaker: Julius Szekrenyes
