Manchester Ancient Egypt Society

09/10/2026

Manchester Ancient Egypt Society is pleased to announce details of our next lecture, which will be held on Monday 12th October.
Doors open 19.45, lecture starts at 20.00.

Bryony Renshaw:
Fragments of Identity Reconstructing the Lives of Two Victorian Women Though their Ancient Egyptian Collection.

In 1874 Marianne Brocklehurst and Mary Booth returned from their first trip to Egypt. The trip sparked a fascination with Egypt, both ancient and modern, which would see them spend the rest of their lives collecting and researching artefacts, befriending Egyptologists and building their own museum.

150 years later, new research into their collection is revealing fresh insights into the adventurous life Marianne and Mary shared. Each artefact they collected offers, not only a window into the ancient past, but also a glimpse into the minds of the women who collected them.

This talk will explore how these fragments can be reassembled to reveal the forgotten story of these two remarkable Victorian women.

Bryony Renshaw has been researching the Egyptological collection of Marianne Brocklehurst and Mary Booth for over a decade.
During this time she has gained an Archaeology BA, Egyptology MA and Art Gallery and Museum Studies MA.

More broadly, her research focuses on women in ancient Egypt as well as women in early Egyptology. She is currently Senior Curator of Paradise Mill in Macclesfield, where Marianne and Mary's collection is based.

MAES Members are FREE...

Guests can still register to attend via Eventbrite £5.00:

https://maesweb.org.uk/meetings/
If you are a paying guest you may be interested to know that if you were a member, you would be entitled to free entry to all our ‘Zoom’ lectures, throughout the season.
Why not join us? For details and membership form:
https://maesweb.org.uk/join-us/

05/10/2026

Manchester Ancient Egypt Society is pleased to announce details of our next lecture, which will be held on Monday 12th October.

Doors open 19.45, lecture starts at 20.00.

Bryony Renshaw:
Fragments of Identity Reconstructing the Lives of Two Victorian Women Though their Ancient Egyptian Collection.

In 1874 Marianne Brocklehurst and Mary Booth returned from their first trip to Egypt. The trip sparked a fascination with Egypt, both ancient and modern, which would see them spend the rest of their lives collecting and researching artefacts, befriending Egyptologists and building their own museum.

150 years later, new research into their collection is revealing fresh insights into the adventurous life Marianne and Mary shared. Each artefact they collected offers, not only a window into the ancient past, but also a glimpse into the minds of the women who collected them.

This talk will explore how these fragments can be reassembled to reveal the forgotten story of these two remarkable Victorian women.

Bryony Renshaw has been researching the Egyptological collection of Marianne Brocklehurst and Mary Booth for over a decade.
During this time she has gained an Archaeology BA, Egyptology MA and Art Gallery and Museum Studies MA.

More broadly, her research focuses on women in ancient Egypt as well as women in early Egyptology. She is currently Senior Curator of Paradise Mill in Macclesfield, where Marianne and Mary's collection is based.

Guests can register to attend via Eventbrite £5.00:

https://maesweb.org.uk/meetings/

If you are a paying guest you may be interested to know that if you were a member, you would be entitled to free entry to all our ‘Zoom’ lectures, throughout the season.

Why not join us? For details and membership form:

https://maesweb.org.uk/join-us/

29/09/2026

29/09/2026

Kara Cooney - Egyptologist

12 hours ago ·
Tut tomb alert! Nick Reeves, Mamdouh Eldamaty, and George Ballard just published an in-depth report with NEW microgravity (!!) data suggesting hidden chambers and all the Ground Penetrating Radar data. As Nick told me himself a few weeks ago: the Ground Penetrating Radar can only do so much when you can’t press the instruments against the walls, and so they have added a new tool to their arsenal: microgravity with amazing results. I’ve sent this data to my friend Dr. Adrian Tang who is an electrical engineer / scientist on the next NASA Mars Mission and who works with such tools regularly, and he confirms there is great potential for rooms beyond the tomb walls. But please don’t forget the political aspects of this potential discovery: they are real and destructive elements interested in shutting this down. Why? Because they can’t control it and own it.

A Ghost Doorway gets a whole lot of chambers….

28/09/2026

A newly discovered burial chamber in the Valley of the Kings provides a rare glimpse into the life of an ancient Egyptian singer

27/09/2026

100 years in the making, the long-awaited Egypt Galleries: Life & Afterlife open in Philadelphia on Dec. 12. Book tickets: https://bit.ly/4q3C8w6

1,000 artifacts spanning 4,000 years explore both familiar and unsung stories of how the ancient Egyptians lived, worked, and worshipped from every day to eternity.

As you enter a 4,300-year-old tomb chapel, decode hieroglyphs, and marvel at the exquisite tools, jewelry, papyri, and the myriad materials they made and left behind, gain a richer understanding of the daily life and the afterlife practices of the ancient Egyptians throughout all levels of society—from farmers to pharaohs.

Don’t miss the opening celebration on 12/12:
Members enjoy free and early access: https://bit.ly/4q3C8w6

26/09/2026

Archaeologists working in Egypt’s New Valley have uncovered a limestone pyramid-shaped tomb containing an unusual combination of ancient Egyptian religious imagery and a 19-line Greek funerary poem. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News

25/09/2026

Manchester Ancient Egypt Society is pleased to announce details of our next lecture, which will be held on Monday 12th October. Doors open 19.45, lecture starts at 20.00.

Bryony Renshaw:
Fragments of Identity Reconstructing the Lives of Two Victorian Women Though their Ancient Egyptian Collection.

In 1874 Marianne Brocklehurst and Mary Booth returned from their first trip to Egypt. The trip sparked a fascination with Egypt, both ancient and modern, which would see them spend the rest of their lives collecting and researching artefacts, befriending Egyptologists and building their own museum.

150 years later, new research into their collection is revealing fresh insights into the adventurous life Marianne and Mary shared. Each artefact they collected offers, not only a window into the ancient past, but also a glimpse into the minds of the women who collected them.

This talk will explore how these fragments can be reassembled to reveal the forgotten story of these two remarkable Victorian women.

Bryony Renshaw has been researching the Egyptological collection of Marianne Brocklehurst and Mary Booth for over a decade.

During this time she has gained an Archaeology BA, Egyptology MA and Art Gallery and Museum Studies MA.

More broadly, her research focuses on women in ancient Egypt as well as women in early Egyptology.

She is currently Senior Curator of Paradise Mill in Macclesfield, where Marianne and Mary's collection is based.

Guests can register to attend via Eventbrite £5.00:

https://maesweb.org.uk/meetings/

If you are a paying guest you may be interested to know that if you were a member, you would be entitled to free entry to all our ‘Zoom’ lectures, throughout the season.

Why not join us? For details and membership form:

https://maesweb.org.uk/join-us/

24/09/2026

Archaeologists excavating in the ancient Hittite capital of Hattusha have uncovered a fragment of the world's oldest peace treaty, signed around 1269 B.C.

24/09/2026

Archaeologists unearthed a horse burial dating back more than three millennia in an ancient Egyptian fortress.