A The Egypt Centre Event
SpeakerTessa Baber
Speaker's BiographyCardiff University
From: 22 Mar 2017, 7 p.m.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.
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Contact: Wendy Goodridge (Email: egyptcentre@swansea.ac.uk) - Telephone: 01792295960