FREE LECTURE ON NUBIA IN TORONTO NOVEMBER 16TH
- From: the_ssea@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:12:12 -0800
This Friday at 7pm, in rm. 142, 5 Bancroft Ave (basement of the Earth
Sciences Complex), University of Toronto downtown campus, Dr. Timothy
Kendall, Northeastern University (Boston) will be speaking to The
Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities on Recent Discoveries at
Gebel Barkal in Nubia.
His lecture will cover the excavations of King Aspelta's palace and
the astronomical relationship between Barkal and Taharqa's pyramid at
Nuri, which explains why Taharqa built his tomb at Nuri and left his
ancestors at Kurru.
For more information on the lecture, visit http://www.thessea.org or
email info@xxxxxxxx
Timothy Kendall is Senior Research Scientist, African Archaeology at
Northeastern University in Boston and Director, NCAM-Northeastern
University Archaeological Survey, Bayuda Desert, Sudan. He has served
as vice president of the International Society of Nubian Studies,
chairman of the organizing committee of a proposed American Center for
Sudan Research in Khartoum, Sudan, and a member of the Sudan
Archaeological Mission of the University of Rome.
Prior to earning his doctorate from Brandeis University in
Mediterranean Studies in 1974, Dr. Kendall earned his his M.A. in
Ancient Near Eastern History and Language from the University of
Chicago and studied Classical Archaeology as an undergraduate at
Oberlin College. A former associate curator of the Department of
Egyptian and Near Eastern Art at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, he
developed the "Kush: Lost Kingdom of the Nile" exhibition for the
Brockton Museum. Dr. Kendall has authored many articles and books on
ancient Nubian archaeology and culture and contributed to the catalog
of the international exhibition "Sudan: Ancient Kingdoms of the Nile."
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