An Evening with Paul Nicholson - Crafts and Industries in Ancient Egypt. A review of the evidence and practices

This talk will look at some of the kinds of industries known from ancient Egypt and how we can go about discovering the ways in which they might have operated by using pictorial, literary, ethnographic and scientific evidence. It draws on work undertaken by Paul and by his colleagues at a number of different sites, not least Amarna where the evidence for crafts is often very well preserved.

Paul was awarded his PhD in archaeology at Sheffield University in 1987. He held several post-doctoral positions at Sheffield working on aspects of ancient Egyptian pottery before being appointed lecturer in archaeology at Cardiff University. He is Professor Emeritus in Archaeology in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion at Cardiff. His research interests include ancient technology, sacred animal cults and the uses and history of photography in archaeology and Egyptology. His publications include The British Museum Dictionary of Ancient Egypt (with Ian Shaw), Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology (co-edited with Ian Shaw), Brilliant Things for Akhenaten and Working in Memphis. His book The Catacombs of Anubis at North Saqqara was published by Peeters in association with the British Museum in 2021. Along with his research assistant Dr. Henry Bishop-Wright he is currently completing a volume Dating the Dead: chronology and context at Saqqara's Sacred Animal Necropolis.

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Image: Experimental woodworking