The Fitzwilliam Museum and Christ’s College, Cambridge hosted a conference on ancient Egyptian coffins, entitled Coffins in Context, from Thursday 22 to Saturday 24 February 2024. The conference venue was the Yusuf Hamied Centre at Christ’s College, Cambridge.
A previous conference, hosted by the Fitzwilliam Museum in 2016 (Ancient Egyptian Coffins: past • present • future), focussed on the development of coffins in antiquity, including technological, iconographic and text-based studies, the post-antiquity history of coffins and developments in their technical examination and analysis. Since then, studies have moved on, with numerous institutions around the world carrying out comprehensive investigations of the coffins in their collections.
The 2024 Coffins in Context conference represented a chance to pause and consider what had been learned in recent years and the potential direction of future coffin research. See our call for papers for the themes of the conference.
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In February 2024, the Fitzwilliam Museum and Christ’s College, Cambridge jointly hosted a conference, ‘Coffins in Context’, held over three...
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The final programme of the conference is available here. The final abstracts booklet is available here.
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The Fitzwilliam Museum houses one of the four major collections of Egyptian antiquities in the United Kingdom, with objects from...
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The Coffins in Context conference represented a chance to pause and consider what we have learned through coffins studies in...
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Author: Sara Abed I was involved with ‘Coffins in Context’ conference for a while before it started, helping with the...
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