Date: Saturday, February 4, 2012, 5:00 p.m.

Chapter: Illinois

Speaker: Nigel Strudwick, University of Memphis, Tennessee

Location: La Salle Bank Room, The Oriental Institute

This free lecture is held at the Oriental Institute, LaSalle Bank Room. 1155 East 58th Street, Chicago, 60637.

For more information call 773-702-1062.

Description: The names of Norman and Nina de Garis Davies are synonymous with the highest quality copying of ancient Egyptian tombs and other monuments. Norman had been working in Egypt since 1897 and in 1906 met Nina who was visiting friends in Alexandria. After their marriage in 1907, they began work for the Metropolitan Museum Egyptian Expedition in Thebes, and continued working there until 1939, with only a slight interruption for the war. This lecture will look at what we know of them as people, plus of course examining and evaluating their work and the legacy they left Egyptology. This lecture is presented in conjunction with the exhibit “Picturing the Past: Imaging and Imagining the Ancient Middle East” on view at the Oriental Institute through September 2, 2012.

About the Speaker: Nigel Strudwick is an Egyptologist who is currently teaching at the University of Memphis in Tennessee. He served as Assistant Keeper in the Egyptian Department of the British Museum. He has worked in the Tombs of the Nobles at Luxor since 1984, and he has written and lectured widely on Theban tombs and on the Old Kingdom.