Ancient Egypt

Pharaohs, pyramids, the River Nile.

The ancient history of Egypt is familiar to all of us, from school lessons to Hollywood, television documentaries to the British Museum. 

One of the most enduring of ancient civilisations, lasting over three thousand years, it is too often presented as timeless and unchanging. Beneath this glossy surface, though, lie millennia of change, innovation and political intrigue that we explore in this talk.