Birth and Rebirth in Ancient Egypt. Death as a right of passage.

Birth and Rebirth in Ancient Egypt: Death as a Rite of Passage

The Ancient Egyptians regarded death as rebirth into an Afterlife. The heavily ritualised period following death enabled the deceased to be reborn into the Other World. In this lecture Lucia will present archaeological material and ancient texts to explore those rituals of death that help shed light on the ancient Egyptian belief in death as a rite of passage, that is a ritualised transitional stage in the human lifecycle. She will suggest that the sequence conception - birth - early childhood was mirrored by death - rebirth - the initial stage of the journey into the Afterlife (a period of nourishment and protection from danger).

Lucia holds a First Class Honours Degree in Egyptology/Ancient History from University College London. Her postgraduate research took her into university teaching, curatorial work in the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology in London, and archaeological excavations in Egypt. She has taught Egyptology for the Continuing Education departments of a number of universities in the UK, and has taught undergraduates at University College London and the Universities of Warwick and Bristol. Lucia is an Honorary Research Associate at University College London’s Institute of Archaeology.

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