Friends of the Egypt Centre present The ‘Mummy Pits’ of Ancient Egypt: The Long-Kept Secret of Early Travellers

A The Egypt Centre Event

Speaker

Tessa Baber

Speaker's Biography

Cardiff University

From: 22 Mar 2017, 7 p.m.
To: 22 Mar 2017, 8 p.m.
Location: Fulton House 2, Swansea University, Fulton House

A little over a century ago, burials known simply as ‘mummy pits’ were a common and characteristic feature of Egypt’s burial landscape. These ‘pits’ contained mass burials of mummies piled-up in such great numbers, that it is surprising that they now appear to have disappeared from the archaeological record. This talk presents the results of an ongoing research project into the nature of the mummy pits, and considers whether they simply represent a collection of mass-burial events – perhaps the result of conflict or epidemic, or whether instead they may provide evidence for a now long-forgotten burial custom used by the poor in the latest periods of ancient Egyptian history.

Free to members, £3.00 Non members


Contact: Wendy Goodridge (Email: egyptcentre@swansea.ac.uk) - Telephone: 01792295960

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