World Museum Warehouse Store Tour

Dr Ashley Cooke kindly give WAES members a tour and handling session at National Museum Liverpool's warehouse stores.
The focus was on antiquities acquired from the Wellcome collection as a tie-in to Dr Ken Griffin's talk in September.
Thanks to Cheryl Tempest for organising this.

Creatures of the Nile

We had an organised a tour of the 'Creatures of the Nile' exhibition at the VG&M on Thursday 25th July.
Dr Juliet Spedding who is a co-curator of the exhibition and a post-doctoral researcher on the BEAST project. (Biodiversity in Egyptian Archaeology during Societal Transitions) gave us an introduction to the exhibition and the project.

It features the Egyptian and Sudanese collections of the Garstang Museum of Archaeology, with additional artefacts on loan from National Museums Liverpool and Manchester Museum.

Book Sales

At each meeting in the Mayer Hall we have a selection of Egyptology books for sale, at very reasonable prices.

There is also a selection of wonderful items produced by Steve Tasker.
All Profits to WAES.