Beginning around 1500BC, the New Kingdom Egyptian Empire expanded its reach into the territory of its southern neighbor, Nubia, in search of resources such as gold and cattle. Over the next few hundred years, interactions between the ancient Egyptians and Nubians would include violence encounters, trade and exchange, political relationships, and the establishment of interethnic […]

Please note, this lecture has been CANCELED. UPenn Museum, Rainey Auditorium Abstract: Twenty-first Dynasty coffins are important social documents, but they are difficult to document, photograph, and analyze. For the past seven years, I have been systematically examining human reactions to social crises, specifically focusing on material adaptations evident within an ideological context, but also documenting […]