UNC Asheville to Host Talk by Noted Egyptologist Lanny Bell

UNC Asheville will host a talk by noted Egyptologist Lanny Bell at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 28, at UNC Asheville’s Ramsey Library, Whitman Room. In his talk, “Mummies, Magic and Medicine: An Introduction to Ancient Egyptian Funerary Beliefs and Practices,” Bell will examine pyramids, mummies and burial good to unearth what they have in common in ancient Egyptian attitudes toward death and the dead. The event is free and open to the public.

Bell is an acknowledged leader in the documentation of the monuments of ancient Egypt and the interpretation of ancient Egyptian culture. No armchair scholar, Bell has conducted active expeditions in Egypt since 1967, including 17 years of fieldwork in Luxor. He retired from his faculty position at the University of Chicago in 1996 and has spent the past 10 years writing, leading tours and teaching courses at Brown University, Rhode Island School of Design and Columbia University. Bell holds a bachelor’s degree in Egyptology from the University Chicago and a doctorate in Egyptology from the University of Pennsylvania.

The talk is co-sponsored by UNC Asheville’s Classics Department and the Archaeological Institute of America. For more information, call Laurel Taylor, UNC Asheville adjunct assistant professor of classics, at 828/251-6290.

Media Contacts:

• Laurel Taylor, UNC Asheville Adjunct Assistant Professor of Classics,828/251-6290
• Jill Yarnall, UNC Asheville Public Information Assistant Director, 828/251-6526