The 5th meeting of the ‘PEOPLE-SCIENCE-INFLUENCE’ series entitled ‘From a tomb to a museum – how collections of Egyptian antiquities in Poland were created’ takes place on 20 December 2023 at 3.30.
The guest of the meeting will be Wojciech Ejsmond, PhD – an archaeologist specialising in prehistory and the first centuries of ancient Egypt. Co-director of the Gebelein Archaeological Project (an archaeology mission in the Gebelein microregion in southern Egypt) and Warsaw Mummy Project (interdisciplinary research on mummies carried out in Warsaw). The team he leads has discovered a previously unknown necropolis dating back to the 3rd millennium BC and the oldest inscriptions containing prayers; during the examination of the mummies, it was discovered that one of them was the body of a woman with a foetus still preserved in her uterus, which is the first find of this type in an Egyptian mummy. Wojciech is a laureate of the START scholarship for outstanding young scientists given by the Foundation for Polish Science and the award in the field of humanities given by the Institute de Republica. He delivered lectures, e.g. at the Universities of Bonn, Jaén, and Auckland. He is often invited to publish in encyclopediae and academic textbooks published by Oxford and the American University in Cairo.
The meeting is carried out online.
The series is organised by Agata Sowińska, PhD, from the Institute of Literary Studies, USil Faculty of Humanities.
If you are interested in the meeting, contact Agata Sowińska, PhD, at agata.sowinska@us.edu.pl.