EES Tuesday Spotlight: On the Tracks of Ahmed Fakhry

This Tuesday Spotlight lecture within our wider theme of ‘Egypt on the eve of ‘independence’’ will present notable characters in Egyptology around the time of Egypt’s granting of independence from British rule in 1922.

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Ahmed Fakhry is a prominent scholar of the third generation of Egyptian archaeologists who served for both the Egyptian Antiquities Service and Cairo University. His scientific legacy includes a great number of publications covering his archaeological fieldwork in the five main oases of the Egyptian Western Desert, as well as other important sites such as the Memphite and Theban Necropolis, Middle Egypt, and Nubia. Besides, the meticulous anthropological detail he recorded on the traditions, customs, and costumes of the inhabitants of the Egyptian oases.

This Spotlight Lecture will shed light on the career of Ahmed Fakhry and his participation in the interdisciplinary project to probe the Pyramid of Khafre. It will also highlight the ongoing work on the archive of Ahmed Fakhry which is kept at the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo (DAIK), including, but not limited to, remarkable examples of the official paper framework of the Egyptian Antiquities Service, as well as Fakhry’s diaries of his field trips as an Inspector of Antiquities.

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Mr Mostafa Ismail Tolba is currently an Assistant at the Archive Department of the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo. He studied Egyptology at the Faculty of Archaeology, Cairo University, and graduated with a BA in 2016. As an undergraduate, he did a three-month Internship at the Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage (CULTNAT – Bibliotheca Alexandrina), where he digitized excavation records and field notes of the pioneer Egyptian Egyptologist, Selim Hassan. He also participated in the CULTNAT project, the Archaeological Map of Egypt, listing sites in North Sinai and Ismailia governorates. Mr Tolba served as a volunteer for the Egypt Exploration Society (EES) for more than two years, during which, he participated in organising lectures, courses, conferences of the EES activities in the Cairo office. In 2016, Mr Tolba was enrolled in the joint Environmental Archaeology Master’s Program at Cairo University and the University of Cologne in Germany. He spent six months in Germany training in archaeological field methods and participating in the salvage excavations at the coal mining area of Hambach and the Magdalenian site in Bad Kösen. He is currently a member of two ongoing German archaeological excavation projects: the Saqqara Saite Tombs Project of the University of Tübingen, and the Project of the University of Cologne, Zawyet Sultan: Archaeology and Heritage in Middle Egypt.

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