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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>The Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society gives lectures on a variety of Ancient Egypt topics.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Their web site is: <span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><a href="http://www.tvaes.org.uk"><span style='color:blue'>www.tvaes.org.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>A brochure is attached giving full details of the program, location and membership, together with an email contact.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>In case you have any difficulty reading this, the next two scheduled lectures are listed below.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Coming lectures :</span></u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>09 Jan 2016 2.00 pm : Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society Lecture<br></span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Oakwood Centre, Headley Road, Woodley RG5 4JZ<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Not only with the dead? Banqueting in ancient Egypt<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Professor John Baines<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Despite the presence of vast numbers of scenes of food, drink and preparations for eating and drinking on ancient Egyptian monuments, images of people partaking in them are rare. This lecture highlights features of conviviality and elite settings, including structures where banquets could be held. The ubiquity of death was seen as a reason to eat and particularly <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>to drink before it is too late.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Members free, visitors welcome, a £3 donation invited.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>27 Feb 2016 2.00 pm : Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society Lecture <br></span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Oakwood Centre, Headley Road, Woodley RG5 4JZ<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Ancient Egyptian stories brought to life<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Helen Stewart<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>An Introduction to the stories and myths of Ancient Egypt, brought to life through the oral tradition of Performance Storytelling. The stories have been silent for hundreds of years, now they are told again, out loud, as they were in the time of the pharaohs.<br>Members free, visitors welcome, a £3 donation invited.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Roger Worthington, Secretary<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoN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