“Understanding Egypt: Language, Layers and Meaning in the Nile Valley” Carl Graves (EEG Meeting Talk)
On 4th October Carl Graves came to talk to us at the Essex Egyptology Group about the work he’s doing for his PhD on the landscape of the Nile Valley as interacted with & perceived by the ancient Egyptians. The concept of “landscape” is a technical term in geography, and so Graves spent the first half of his talk explaining this concept and its theoretical underpinnings so that they made sense to us, before moving on to talk about ancient Egypt. He began by getting us all to stand up and look around the room and to think about the space we were in: had we been there before (most of us had), who the people were that we knew in the room, had anyone been there for other non-EEG events and so on. These memories and meanings that we attach to somewhere are what turns it from a space… Read More »“Understanding Egypt: Language, Layers and Meaning in the Nile Valley” Carl Graves (EEG Meeting Talk)