11

Feb

ARCE-NY: Egyptian Artifacts at History Colorado

Presented by David Pepper

Pre-registration is NOT required for this event.

  • 7:00 PM (EST)New York
  • Zoomthe meeting ID is: 898 6240 6354 and the meeting passcode is: 609884.
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Lecture Information

David Pepper has researched Egyptian objects in the Colorado History Museum and was able to find out when and where most were excavated, who owned many of them, and how they came to Denver. It’s a detective story enhanced with information from dig diaries, excavation registration cards, and on-site photographs. All backed up with the words of the excavators from their more-than-100-year-old reports. Archeologists Flinders Petrie, Eric Peet, and Leonard Woolley carefully documented these finds, making it possible today to recover long-lost information about the objects in the Colorado History Museum collection. This lecture tells the story of re-uniting these artifacts with their provenance, information that was lost for over 100 years

Speaker Bio

David Pepper is a retired aerospace engineer with a lifelong interest in Ancient Egypt. He was one of the founders of the Egyptian Study Society (Denver), and was formerly an editor of its publications, The Ostracon, and Scribe’s Palette. Over the past 40 years, David has presented many lectures and classes about Ancient Egypt around the Denver-Boulder area. A number of his past lectures are available on the Egyptian Study Society’s YouTube Channel. He was a volunteer docent at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science between 1985 and 2005 and is currently vice-president on the Board of Trustees of The Amarna Research Foundation, a fund-raising organization that supports excavations and conservation projects in Egypt, and is editor of their publication, The Akhetaten Sun. David has published two books: Akhenaten’s Royal Court: They city at Amarna and its Officials, and After Akhenaten: What happened to his Royal Court? (both are available at Amazon).

David and his wife, Jill, have visited Egypt many times, and have been study leaders on several trips to Egypt.