Date: Friday, November 19, 2010, 6:30 p.m.

Chapter: Washington, D.C.

Presenter: Dr. Andrew Bednarski, Egyptologist and Assistant to the Special Projects of ARCE

Location: Benjamin T. Rome Auditorium of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, 1619 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC

Lecture is free and open to the public. Please come and bring a guest.

Description: In 2008 ARCE began a project to translate, edit, and publish the last great work of the pioneer Egyptologist Frédéric Cailliaud. A hero in his time, Cailliaud rediscovered the ancient emerald mines of Mount Zabora, explored both the Eastern and Western Deserts, traced routes to the Red Sea, and, most famously, 'rediscovered' the pyramids of ancient Meroe. Upon his return to France he brought, along with hundreds of objects for museums, an encyclopedic knowledge of the lands of the Nile. This lecture will discuss Cailliaud's life, adventures, and work, as well as explain the on-going value of his long-lost manuscript to the study of ancient and modern Egypt

About the Speaker: Dr. Andrew Bednarski is an Egyptologist specializing in the history of the discipline. He earned his Ph.D. at Cambridge University and currently works as the Assistant to the Director for Special Projects, ARCE. Along with his historiographical interests, he has excavated in Egypt at Hierakonpolis, Abydos, Tell el-Amarna, Dakhla, Mut Temple (Karnak), and Luxor Temple. His current research interests focus on the reception of ancient Egypt in general, and the reception of ancient Egyptian material culture in particular, in western civilization.