Date: Thursday, December 8, 2011, 6:30pm

Chapter: New York, NY

Speaker: Bob Brier

Location:  Alston & Bird LLP, 90 Park Avenue, (between 39th and 40th Streets), 15th Floor Lecture Room (Note:  Photo ID Required to enter Building

FREE TO THE PUBLIC

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Holiday Party to follow lecture.

Description: Recent discussions in the New York Times have claimed that New York's obelisk is deteriorating. This lecture will discuss the history of the New York obelisk from ancient to modern times. After a brief introduction about how the obelisk was quarried and transported in ancient times, some of its more recent history will be discussed, including the remarkable story of its journey from Alexandria to

New York in 1881. The talk will conclude with an assessment of the condition of the obelisk, as it is today and a discussion about what should be done.

About the Speaker

Bob Brier earned his bachelor's degree from Hunter College in New York and his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is Senior Research Fellow at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University. He has been a Fulbright Fellow and also Director of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Egyptology Today program. He is recognized as one of the world's foremost experts on mummies and was the first person in 2,000 years to mummify a human cadaver in the ancient Egyptian manner.

Dr. Brier hosted several award-winning television specials for TLC, including "The Great Egyptians" and "Unwrapped, the Mysterious World of Mummies." He is the author of several scholarly and popular books including "Daily Life of the Ancient Egyptians," "The Murder of Tutankhamen," and "Secret of the Great Pyramid."