Date: Saturday, September 11, 2010, 5:00 p.m.

Chapter: Illinois

Speaker: Otto Shaden, American Egyptologist

Location: The Oriental Institute, Breasted Hall

This lecture, co-sponsored by the Oriental Institute, is free and open to the public. For more information, please call 773-702-1062. 

Description: TBA

About the speaker: Otto J. Schaden is an American Egyptologist, and has taught the Middle Egyptian language at the University of Minnesota in the early 1970s. He was the Field Director of the Amenmesse Tomb Project of the University of Memphis (Tennessee). On 8 February 2006, it was announced that his team had discovered KV63, an intact chamber at first thought to be a tomb. The tomb was slowly excavated from March to July 2006 and appears to have been a mummification storage area for another royal tomb--possibly an unsanctioned tomb prematurely labeled KV64. Schaden's research continues under the auspices of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, which is now representing his project.