The Egypt Exploration Society

🏛️🚨Historic news! We’re thrilled to announce that we have been awarded a £2.03 million grant from @HeritageFundUK! #SavingHeritage #NationalLottery #HeritageFund

@EgyptomaniaMuse ...and fitting perfectly with the Maat content of our new exhibition 'Cleopatra & the Queens of Egypt' @EBMuseum, from the Maat figurine loaned by @BoltonLMS to the inclusion of Maat in the cartouche of the mighty Hatshepsut Maatkara, courtesy of @TheEES 🤩 #CleoandtheQueens

#Throwback to last week when i was honoured to witness the launch of ‘Cleopatra and the Queens of Egypt’ by @ImmortalEgypt @EBMuseum featuring loans from @TheEES and @BoltonLMS 🤩 Don’t miss it! #tbt

Just three weeks until I join other folks from @theees’s staff and governance team in heading to Denver for @ARCENational’s annual meeting! Come say hi if you’re attending! #egyptology #conference #heritage #archaeology #ARCE #EES

Interested in the portrayal of these women? Join our Online Course: Women in Ancient Egyptian Art, discussing artistic examples from antiquity through to Victorian portraits of women like Amelia Edwards. Book now and catch up with this week's recording👇 ees.ac.uk/whats-on/event…

Did you know that @TheEES was founded by pioneering writer Amelia Edwards, author of 'A Thousand Miles Up the Nile'? #InternationalWomensDay She envisaged the EES to include other eminent women. Read about her and these women in our Spotlight volume👇 ees.ac.uk/resource/ameli…

In our latest podcast episode with Christina Geisen on #AncientEgyptian funerary texts, learn how the Book of the Dead wasn't actually a #book at all! #WorldBookDay2026 #AwayWithThePharaohs Listen now: rss.com/podcasts/away-…

“You must not read from the booooook!” #WorldBookDay #BookOfTheDead Join us for a special screening of The Mummy (1999) @TheGardenCinema on Wednesday 3 June, as we kick off EES Fest! Book from 1 April🎫ees.ac.uk/whats-on/event…

Are ancient #Egyptian funerary texts sacred guides to the #afterlife—or practical manuals for navigating death? #AwayWithThePharaohs 🎧 March episode out now Hear how the Pyramid Texts, Coffin Texts and Book of the Dead prepared people for the afterlife in #AncientEgypt.

📢🚨We're looking for a Publications Manager! Join our small team in London to oversee the production of our print and online publications, including our magazine, journal and monographs. Help share ground-breaking Egyptological research! ℹ️ees.ac.uk/resource/we-re… ⏰Fri 6 March

Check it out and book now 👇 ees.ac.uk/member-homepag…

Amazing segment on #TheOneShow about Ramses and the Pharaohs’ Gold: The Exhibition with our very own @ed_scrivens! Watch it now: bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod… Open from TODAY! 🎟️ EES Members can find an exclusive offer with their booking on your Member Homepage!

For #PokémonDay, here are our favourites with links to #AncientEgypt: Cofagrigus👻looks like an #Egyptian coffin Lucario🦾based on jackal-headed god Anubis Sigilyph👁‍🗨inspired by #hieroglyphs Ampharos⚡️based on lighthouse/Pharos of Alexandria Who would you choose!?📸Ken Sugimori

This month’s discovery is a marriage contract from the site of Oxyrhynchus (P.Oxy. XLIX 3491), dating to 157-158 CE. This papyrus records the marriage of Chaeremonis and Dionysapollodorus. ℹ️More on Facebook or Instagram 📜Courtesy of @TheEES & @oxfordclassics #ADozenDiscoveries

Online Course: #AncientEgyptian Funerary Texts 📅24 Mar-21 Apr⏰6pm🇬🇧8pm🇪🇬 Read, in #hieroglyphs, passages from the major funerary text corpora, including the Pyramid Texts, Coffin Texts, Book of the Dead (see below), and Amduat, with Christina Geisen. 🎫ees.ac.uk/whats-on/event…

Lives in Egyptology: the story of Who Was Who 📅3 Mar⏰1pm🇬🇧3pm🇪🇬 Hana Navratilova presents Who Was Who in Egyptology, a biographical repository for the field, outlining priorities to enhance this resource towards a comprehensive and inclusive history. 🎫ees.ac.uk/whats-on/event…

Ever wondered what #book to take with you on your next trip to #Egypt?📚🤔 Well, we have the answer! @CGraves88 has shared his top #travel reads for first-time visitors to Egypt in our #ExperienceEgypt zone this month! 📘ees.ac.uk/resource/readi… #SundayRead #Reading #Books

A great time at the Garden Cinema last night for a screening of the 1982 #film ‘For the Love of Egypt’ about @theees founder Amelia B. Edwards. Brilliant to meet Director Anna Benson Gyles and cast member Jeremy Clyde - huge congrats to @CGraves88 for organising! #egyptology

Yesterday I had the privilege @TheGardenCinema of hosting director Anna Benson Gyles at a special screening of her 1982 film ‘For the Love of Egypt’ which tells the founding of @TheEES in 1882. We were joined by Jeremy Clyde who played William Matthew Flinders Petrie too! 🤩

In our Feb episode of #AwayWithThePharaohs, @ed_scrivens provides an overview of religion in ancient Egypt, before exploring the complex, fluid nature of its gods and goddesses and the rituals that empowered them. 🎧rss.com/podcasts/away-… #AncientEgypt #Gods #Goddess #Mythology

Volunteers Tilly and Hazel have been cataloguing and digitising our postcards. The majority are blank, but a few examples, like this, offer a glimpse into past relationships. "Dear Friend you are like a bird, a small and pretty bird... Be happy." 📬PCD.0599 #SendACardToAFriend