15 Feb 2012 - 19:00
Swansea
Wednesday 15th February 2012
Heidi Köpp (Universität Trier, Germany)
‘Travel in Ancient Egypt’.
Friends of the Egypt Centre
Fulton House, Room 2
University of Swansea
Nowadays, we associate travel mainly with tourism, but this differs very much from the ancient Egyptian evidence. Who travelled in ancient Egypt and why? Was only the high society on the move? Did they travel just for fun or for economic reasons?
And last but not least, how did they travel? Heidi Köpp answers all these questions and shows the means of locomotion ancient Egyptians used on their journeys, from the sedan chair of Hetepheres, Khufu’s mother, to the chariot of Akhenaten and Nefertiti.
http://egypt.swan.ac.uk/index.php/present-and-forthcoming-events/261-friends-lectures