Lecture by:
Prof. Robert Littman and Prof. De Wolfe Miller (University of Hawai'i, Manoa)
Date: Thursday, Sept. 11, 2003
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Place: Honolulu Academy of Arts, Doris Duke Theatre
In 1996 a major mummy field was discovered in the Bahariya Oasis in the Western Desert in Egypt. This site contains perhaps 10,000 mummies from the Greco-Roman period. It promises to be one of the most exciting new sites of the 21st century. Dr. Miller and Dr. Littman are studying the health and disease in this mummy population. This is part of a larger study of the Egyptian Mummy Project, which includes the mummies of the great pharaohs of Egypt. They will report on the site and their December 2002 expedition in Bahariya, and the Egyptian Mummy Project.
Dr. Miller is Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Hawaii. He has worked extensively in Egypt for the past 25 years on schistosomiasis and hepatitis C. Dr. Littman is a Professor of Classics at the University of Hawaii. He has written extensively on ancient medicine, and has excavated in Greece, Israel, and Egypt.
The lecture will be followed by a free champagne reception.
This lecture is co-sponsored by the following organizations:
Archaeological Institute of America, Hawaii Society
Honolulu Academy of Arts
University of Hawai'i
Society for Hawaiian Archaeology
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