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New Workshop Reports to Download
10th Nov, 2009In 2007-2008 ACCES held a series of workshops with funding from Museums, Libraries, Archives. Two new transcripts of papers presented are now available to download from the publications page on this website. Click for more...
Archives Seminar
6th Nov, 2009SECOND ACCES ARCHIVES SEMINAR: Egyptological paper and photographic archives in Museums and Collections Click for more...
Khamseen Symposium in London
2nd Jul, 2009Exploring the impact of art and craft practice in Cairo Click for more...
New Islamic ceramics display in Liverpool
2nd Jul, 2009Following a period or research National Museums Liverpool have installed a new display of Islamic objects. Click for more...
New gallery at Liverpool's World Museum
5th Feb, 2009New Ancient Egypt gallery at World Museum Liverpool Click for more...
More photographic archives on the Griffith Institute website
20th Dec, 2008Heathcote photographic archive now online Click for more...
Research resources in the Archive of the Griffith Institute
15th Jul, 2008New research resources in the Archive of the Griffith Institute. Click for more...
ACCESS Cementation Workshop in Bristol
27th Feb, 2008In the fourth cementation workshop the topic shall be, 'Displaying Ancient Egypt'. Click for more...
Online Tutankhamun Tomb Archive
7th Jan, 2008The Griffith Institute in Oxford is making the complete records of Howard Carter’s excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun available online on its website. Click for more...
Photographs of Egypt by John Ross presented to the Archive of the Griffith Institute in Oxford.
28th Nov, 2007John Ross, one of the best-known modern photographers of Egypt, died in Oxford on December 6, 2006. Some 2,500 colour transparencies of his photographs have recently been donated to the Archive of the Griffith Institute by his wife, Mrs Judy Ross. Click for more...
Workshop 3: Ethnicity in Egypt – modern race and ancient self-definitions
20th Nov, 2007ACCES Cementation Workshop 3 in Liverpool, 14th December 2007, 13.00 - 16.00. Click for more...
Workshop 2: Object Lives – marks on objects
4th Sep, 2007ACCES Cementation Workshop 2 Hosted by Birmingham Museum Time: 13:00-1600 October 30th 2007 Click for more...
New Workshop Report available
6th Aug, 2007New Report available to ACCES membersACCES is also currently holding a series of workshops. The first of these, looking at issues surrounding visible storage, was held 18 September 2007, and a summary of this workshop can be downl... Click for more...
More Valley of the Kings squeezes are now online
3rd May, 2007More squeeezes online at Griffith Institute Click for more...
Funds for workshops
2nd Apr, 2007Good news: MLA have approved the application put together by Margaret Serpico for funding a workshop in four different regions on topics of ACCES’s choice between now and April 2008. Margaret deserves yet more thanks for this success, as the workshop f... Click for more...
New Report available to ACCES members
17th Jan, 2007A report on the current state of ancient Egyptian and Sudanese collections in the UK, Past, Present and Future: An Overview of Egyptian and Sudanese Collections in the UK, is now available for download to all members of ACCES. This report was comm... Click for more...
Redressing Identities Project at the Petrie Museum
16th Jan, 2007The Petrie Museum welcomes a new Outreach Officer Rashid Elsheikh this week to manage the 15-month project Redressing Identities, under the Designation Challenge Fund. Rashid is leading outreach and inreach sessions to consult Arab World and African co... Click for more...
Egypt Exploration Society offers excavation panels for display
15th Jan, 2007ACCES partner, the Egypt Exploration Society, is currently developing a travelling poster exhibition illustrating past and present excavations of the society. The current list of venues is: St Albans (already on display). For 2007: Glasgow (for March a... Click for more...
Griffith Institute puts tomb scenes on-line
12th Jan, 2007Some 140 paper squeezes made in TT 57, the Theban tomb of Khaemhet, Overseer of the Granaries of Upper and Lower Egypt under Amenophis III (1391-1353 BC), sometime in the 1850s and 1880s, can now be studied on the website of the Griffith Institute in O... Click for more...
Land of the Pharaohs exhibition at Segedunum Roman Fort
4th Jan, 2007Land of the Pharaohs exhibition, Segedunum Roman Fort, Wallsend until September 8, 2008. The exhibition is a look at everyday life and death in ancient Egypt and includes a three-dimensional model of the face of the mummy of Bakt Hor Nekht, on loan fro... Click for more...
ACCES partners lend to an exhibition at the Museum of St Albans
15th Dec, 2006Life and Death in Ancient Egypt. Museum of St Albans. Saturday 14th October 2006 – Sunday 10th June 2007. Admission free. Back by popular demand, the world of the Ancient Egyptians is on display at the Museum of St Albans. With loans from Manchester, ... Click for more...
Find Ancient Egyptian and Sudanese Collections on-line
5th Sep, 2006There are about 200 ancient Egyptian and Sudanese collections in the UK and now, with the help of funding from MLA, it is now possible to search the Cornucopia database for a collection description of each one. Click for more...
Gunnersbury Park Museum opens new display of ancient Egyptian flints
1st Sep, 2006With help from ACCES, Gunnersbury Park Museum has now been able to install a temporary exhibition of some of their ancient Egyptian flint collection. The museum has over 100 flints presented to the museum from two local donors. ACCES was able to obtain... Click for more...
