Northern Cal. Egyptology Lecture Jan. 14: The Abydos Archives Project

The American Research Center in Egypt, Northern California Chapter, and the Near Eastern Studies Department, University of California, Berkeley, invite you to attend a lecture by Jessica Kaiser, a project director of The Abydos Temple Paper Archive Project (ATPA)

The Abydos Archives Project Sunday, January 14, 3 pm Room 254 Barrows Hall UC Berkeley Campus (Near the intersection of Bancroft Way and Barrow Lane) About the Project: From the project website - The Abydos Temple Paper Archive Project (ATPA) is an international mission under the auspices of University of California Berkeley and in collaboration with the Ministry of Antiquities, Egypt, with members from several countries, including many Egyptian team members. Thanks to a generous grant from the Antiquities Endowment Fund administered through the American Research Center in Egypt, we are currently working on a recently discovered historical archive containing documents from the Egyptian Antiquities’ Service related to the heritage management of the site of Abydos and surrounding areas, from approximately 1850 through the 1960’s. Our focus is to preserve and categorize this historical archive detailing the modern history of the area and its archaeological sites from the Egyptian point of view. About the Speaker: Jessica Kaiser is a bioarchaeologist, field archaeologist and surveyor with extensive field experience in Egypt and elsewhere, including Luxor, Giza, el-Hibeh, California and Scandinavia. Jessica has a masters in osteology from her native Sweden and is currently filing her dissertation at UC Berkeley on Late Period burials at Giza ---------- Parking is available in U.C. lots after 5 p.m. on weekdays and all day on weekends for a fee. Ticket dispensing machines accept either $5 bills or $1 bills, and debit or credit cards. The Underhill lot can be entered from Channing way off College Avenue. Parking is also available in lots along Bancroft, and on the circle drive in front of the Valley Life Sciences building. A map of the campus is available online at http://www.berkeley.edu/map/ For more information about Egyptology events, go to http://www.arce-nc.org or http://www.facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE.