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Experiment and Experience: Ancient Egypt In The Present

School of Art and Humanities, Swansea University

10th May 2010

Geoffrey Killen

A practical demonstration and short illustrated talk of those woodworking tools used by Ancient Egyptian carpenters. A discussion of the tools marks that can be identified on woodwork including attempts to turn wood using a simple replica lathe similar to that illustrated in the tomb of Petosiris.

Furniture fit for a Pharaoh

Sussex Egyptology Society, Horsham.

Geoffrey Killen

27th March 2010

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WESSEX ANCIENT EGYPT SOCIETY

Bournemouth University

6th March 2010

The title of the lecture:-

Ancient Egyptian Furniture: from the earliest examples to those “wonderful things” of the New Kingdom.

Followed by a practical demonstration

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Thursday 9th July 2009.

Lecture and Practical Demonstration by Geoffrey Killen.

Practical Egyptian Woodworking: 17.45 - 19.15.

Booking through Bloomsbury Summer School.

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THAMES VALLEY ANCIENT EGYPT SOCIETY

The University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading.

Saturday 12th April 2008: 1:30pm

Public Lecture

Geoffrey Killen

Ancient Egyptian Woodworking and Furniture

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23rd February 2008: 10am – 5pm

THE FURNITURE HISTORY SOCIETY
ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM

FURNITURE OF ANTIQUITY: DISCOVERIES & REVIVALS
The Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Geoffrey Killen: Ancient Egyptian Furniture: from the earliest examples to those “wonderful things” of the New Kingdom.

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23rd January 2008: Egyptian World Seminar Series

Geoffrey Killen: Woodworking tools and techniques with a practical demonstration.
(5.00pm. McDonald Institute Seminar Room, The University of Cambridge).

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Liverpool Egyptology Seminar ( L.E.S ).

Ancient Egyptian Woodworking: Tools and Techniques.

Held on Monday 23rd October 2006.

A seminar presented by Geoffrey Killen to undergraduates and PGR's of SACE. At the end of the formal presentation a brief demonstration of the tools and techniques employed by ancient Egyptian carpenters was given using a range of replica tools. 

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Workshop at the Bard Graduate Center, New York.

Held on Friday 25th October 2002.

Students in the class of Professor Elizabeth Simpson are seen here with stools manufactured by them during a three hour practical session with Geoffrey Killen. These stools which were manufactured using replica tools and techniques used by ancient Egyptian carpenters are similar in style to those found by John Garstang during his 1902-1904 excavations at Beni Hasan.

The Tomb of Iufaa at Abusir.

Miroslav Verner, Director of the Czech mission at Abusir and Professor of Egyptology at Charles University, Prague, describes the discovery of furniture in the Tomb of Iufaa at Abusir in Egyptian Archaeology No.14; 1999. A wooden chest, similar to E 2773 which is preserved in the Louvre Museum, was found intact in this 26th dynasty tomb.

The Folding Bed of Tutankhamun.

Naoko Nishimoto examines the construction of Tutankhamun's Folding Bed, Egyptian Museum Cairo, JE 62018, in the "Annual Report of the Collegium Mediterranistarum, Mediterraneus XXIII", 2000,  pp. 17-37.

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Filler and Stopping Materials.

Niccolo Caldararo discusses the use of filler and stopping materials on Egyptian furniture.

© Geoffrey Killen 2009