Ancient Egypt’s Rival from the South
Nubia
Online Lecture
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Lecturer: Dr Aaron de Souza
Date: Saturday 21 September, 2024
Duration: 1 hour
Start Time: 4.00pm AEST | 3.30pm SA | 2.00pm WA | 6.00pm NZST
Price: $25 AUD
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Overview
Since the beginnings of Egyptology more than a century ago, the pharaohs of ancient Egypt have dominated the narrative of civilisations on the Nile River - yet Egypt did not exist in isolation. Historically, Ancient Egypt negotiated a volatile relationship with its southern neighbour - known to us as ancient Nubia - with the two existing in an almost constant state of tension. The pharaohs would have us believe that Nubia was wretched and ripe to be plundered and conquered, but how accurate is their portrayal?
In his inaugural lecture with Academy Travel, join archaeologist Dr Aaron de Souza to learn about the rich and diverse cultures of ancient Nubia, spanning more than three millennia. From the enigmatic A-Group Culture, to the powerful Kingdom of Kerma and Kushite conquest of Egypt, discover how Egypt’s supposedly ‘wretched’ neighbour was, in fact, a force to be reckoned with.
Your Expert lecturer
Dr Aaron de Souza is an archaeologist specialising in Nubian and Egyptian material culture of the Second Millennium BCE. In 2017, he received his PhD in Egyptology from Macquarie University, Sydney, and from 2019-2023 he lived and worked in Vienna, Austria, as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. During that time, he was awarded a prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship from the European Commission, followed by a Lise Meitner postdoctoral research grant from the Austrian Science Fund.
Aaron has conducted fieldwork at sites throughout Egypt as a Nubian ceramics specialist at Tell Edfu, Hierakonpolis, Aswan, and Elephantine, among others. He has also undertaken extensive museum-based research across Europe and the USA, and has curated exhibitions of Nubian antiquities at Uppsala University in Sweden. He is a widely published author of a monograph and numerous peer-reviewed and popular articles, and he has presented invited keynote lectures at major institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New
York and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Egyptian Museum in Turin, and the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Yale.
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