01/22/12 Northern Cal. Egyptology Lecture: God's Wife of Amun

[Glenn Meyer]

The Northern California Chapter of the American Research Center
in Egypt is sponsoring the following lecture:

2:30 p.m., Sunday, January 22, 2012
Egyptology lecture: God's Wife of Amun
by Dr. Mariam F. Ayad, American University in Cairo
Location: Barrows Hall, Room 110, Barrow Lane and Bancroft Way, UC
Berkeley
No charge, donations are welcome.

Dr. Mariam F. Ayad was born in Cairo and studied Egyptology at the
American
University in Cairo and the University of Toronto, before earning her
doctorate in Egyptology at Brown University in 2003. She is the former
Assistant
Director of the Institutde of Egyptian Art & Archaeology in Memphis,
Tennessee,
and her most recent book is _God's Wife, God's Servant: The God's
Wife of Amun_.

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