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Golden Mummies of Egypt
Virtual Lecture with an Egyptologist: Flinders Petrie on Golden Mummies, Race, and Faces
Saturday, April 17, 2021 | Noon
British Egyptologist Flinders Petrie was keen on matching skulls with mummy masks and portraits and identifying what he believed to be racial types. Join Dr. Campbell Price as he discusses Petrie’s discovery of the golden mummies at Hawara and how Petrie’s study and interpretation have perpetuated racial biases and hierarchies in Egyptology.
This virtual lecture is part of Golden Mummies of Egypt educational programming and is supported by the Gerhard L. Weinberg Endowment Fund.
About the presenter
Campbell Price is curator of Egypt and Sudan at the Manchester Museum, which holds one of the UK’s largest Egyptology collections. He is the author of Pocket Museum: Ancient Egypt (2018) and a new book to accompany the exhibition Golden Mummies of Egypt (2020).
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Golden Mummies of Egypt
Ancient lives, eternal gold. This exhibition presents eight extraordinary, gilded mummies and more than 100 related objects, including papyri, jewelry, ceramics, and deity works that connect the daily lives of these Greco-Roman Egyptians to the religious world of the gods.
EVENTS IN THIS SERIES:
- Virtual Lecture with an Egyptologist: “Sex, Art, and Death in Greco-Roman Egypt” - Saturday, February 13 | 12 PM
- Creative Processing for Families; Grief - Sunday, February 21 | 2 PM
- Virtual Studio Workshop: Laura Moriarty: Encaustic Arts Past and Future - Saturday, March 6 | 1:30 PM
- Virtual Weinberg Lecture of Egyptology: Learning from Egyptian Mummies - Sunday, March 7 | 2 PM
- Mindful Museum: Virtual Art and Mortality Workshop - Tuesday, March 9 | 7 PM
- Teacher Tuesdays: Special Exhibition Access for Educators - Tuesday, March 23 | 4 PM
- Virtual Lecture with an Egyptologist: Flinders Petrie on Golden Mummies, Race, and Faces - Saturday, April 17 | 12 PM
- Virtual Lunchtime Lecture: Golden Mummies: Adapting Funerary Beliefs and Traditions - Thursday, May 13 | 12 PM
- NCMA in Dialogue: Art, Death, and Rebirth - Wednesday, May 19 | 7 PM
