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Are proud to present an illustrated lecture on The Star Arising In The City: Psusennes I – The ‘Silver Pharaoh’ Date: Saturday, 16th March at 1.30 pm The lecture lasts approximately 2 hours including a break. Speaker: Dr Val Billingham, Egyptologist and Author Location: Lecture Theatre, Chesterfield Central Library New Beetwell Street, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S40 1QN Admission: £4 Day-Visitor cost on the door, no membership required. Requirements: No previous knowledge required, our group is aimed at everyone with a love of ancient Egypt. Topic: The Star Arising In The City: Psusennes I – The ‘Silver Pharaoh’ In 1940, French Egyptologist Pierre Montet made the most sensational find in Egypt since Howard Carter’s discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun. At San el-Hagar, ancient Tanis, in the north-east Delta, Montet found the royal cemetery of the Twenty- First and Twenty-Second Dynasties, including the intact tomb of Pasebakhaenniut (The Star Arising in the City). Better known as Psusennes I, his lavish tomb equipment earned him the nickname of the ‘Silver Pharaoh’. World War Two robbed Montet and the burials of Psusennes I and his fellow kings of worldwide fame; though the artefacts have long been displayed alongside the Tutankhamun exhibition in Cairo Museum, they are still little known to the general public. This lecture will cover Montet’s remarkable discovery, what is known of the life, death and burial of Psusennes I, his place in ancient Egyptian history, and the remarkable achievement of the Silver Pharaoh, never known to Montet: the relocation of the principal monuments of Tanis, from their original sites almost twenty miles away at Piramesses. For further details, please see our website www.egyptology-ssae.org Email: on [email protected] or phone 07743820669 .

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