Thursday, October 20 [2005] at 7:00 p.m.

A Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Docent Lecture

The inaugural exhibition at the new de Young Museum highlights the art created during the glorious reign of the female pharaoh Hatshepsut, who shared Egypt's throne for nearly two decades.   The phenomenon of a woman ruling a fundamentally patriarchal society and the omission of her name from later king lists have fuelled debate among Egyptologists for over a century.   Her reign (ca. 1479-1458 BC) was a period of immense artistic creativity and this unprecedented exhibition brings together a vast treasure of royal statuary, sculpture, ceremonial objects, furniture, jewellery, and other personal items.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Moraga Library

Moraga Library, 1500 St. Mary's Rd., Moraga, CA 94556-2037, (925) 376-6852

Julie Winkelstein: At the Library, Contra Costa Times, California, USA, September 01, 2005.

This lecture will recount the colourful life and career of James Henry Breasted from his birth in a small Illinois town to his rise as a giant figure in Egyptology.   2:30 p.m. Sept. 18. [2005] Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum and Planetarium, 1342 Naglee Ave., San Jose.   $10 for museum members, $15 for non-members, $5 for students and seniors with ID.   Call (408) 947-3636, e-mail info@egyptianmuseum.org or visit www.egyptianmuseum.org for reservations and information.

West Valley Guide: Lectures/Seminars, The San Jose Mercury News, California, USA, September 08, 2005.

The total collapse of the Egyptian state at the end of the Pyramid Age was followed by a period of chaos, from which sprung the Classical Age of Egypt, the Middle Kingdom, which ensured the continuation of Egypt as a united nation, and led to the time of the Empire, the New Kingdom.   6:15 p.m. Sept. 17. [2005] Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum and Planetarium, 1342 Naglee Ave., San Jose.   $10 for museum members, $20 for non-members, $5 for students and seniors with ID.   Call (408) 947-3665 or e-mail info@egyptianmuseum.org for reservations and information.

West Valley Guide: Lectures/Seminars, The San Jose Mercury News, California, USA, September 08, 2005.

Fri., Sept. 16 [2005], 6:30 p.m. "Ancient Kingdoms and Royal Mummies: The Facts of Fiction in Hollywood Cinema," an illustrated lecture by art historian and Egyptologist Christine Foessmeier.   Co-sponsored by the American Research Center in Egypt, Washington D.C. Chapter.   Rome Auditorium.

Weekly Calendar: Lectures, The John Hopkins Gazette, The John Hopkins University, Maryland, USA, September 12, 2005.