As part of the ongoing Egypt Season, TORCH invites you to attend the Highclere Castle Festival Weekend - to come and explore the history of the 1920’s and ancient Egyptology as we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Tutankhamun by the Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter, at the real Downton Abbey.
The Castle will be open for self-guided tours throughout the weekend along with a display of original 1920’s costumes in the State Rooms. Outside there will be a display of living history re-enactors, live vintage musical performances and pop-up talks on a number of topics around the theme. The Castle tea rooms will be open throughout the day offering a delicious selection of hot and cold food and drinks and our gin cocktail bar will be serving throughout the day.
Two exciting talks led by Dr. Elizabeth Frood, Associate Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford and Dr. Daniela Rosenow, an Egyptologist at the Griffith Institute, University of Oxford and curator of the Tutankhamun exhibition at the Bodleian Libraries, will explore the rivetting, living histories of Egypt.
Dr. Elizabeth Frood
Dr. Frood's research considers: Ancient Egyptian self-presentation, including biographies, graffiti, and visual culture, sacred space and landscape, and social life and experience (including gender, disability). Her research centres on the self-presentation of Egyptian non-royal people, especially of the late New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period (mid-second to early first millennium BCE). This currently encompasses a range of projects: biographical texts of the late New Kingdom; non-royal statues; and graffiti. She also recently presented the BBC4 documentary Tutankhamun in Colour (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000k48q, Also available on YouTube). Her projects on graffiti in the temple of Amun-Re at Karnak are undertaken in collaboration with the Centre Franco-Égyptien d’Étude des Temples de Karnak and co-directed with Chiara Salvador (Montpellier). This work began with the temple of Ptah, in the northern part of the complex, and work is underway to publish the eighth pylon.
Dr. Daniela Rosenow
Daniela Rosenow is an Egyptologist and extensively involved with archival and museum practice in this context. She will be speaking about the exhibition of items from the Griffith Institute’s collection, that is ongoing at the University of Oxford. Her doctoral research was based at excavations in Tell Basta/Bubastis in the Egyptian Nile delta, where she reconstructed the layout and decoration of the templehouse erected by Nectanebo II and put the building into the broader context of royal sacred architecture of the Egyptian Late period. Dr. Rosenow’s postdoctoral work included a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF) at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, and focused on the production, distribution, technology and trade of Egyptian glass dating to the first millenium AD and built on her previous fieldwork. She is particularly interested in integrating new scientific approaches into traditional Egyptological, Classical and Near Eastern archaeological research.
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