A lecture on Saturday night

[BBLUX]

This Saturday evening at 7pm there will be a lecture by Marcel Maessen on the History of the Dig Houses in the Luxor area.
It will be held on the roof terrace of the Nile Valley Hotel which is on the West Bank very close to the ferry and motor boat landing. There is lift access to the terrace.
The presence of a certain person in Luxor plus the Easter weekend make the Mummification Museum unavaliable.

[Glyphdoctor]

How would the certain person interfere with the MM?

[HEPZIBAH]

This Saturday evening at 7pm there will be a lecture by Marcel Maessen........
The presence of a certain person in Luxor plus the Easter weekend make the Mummification Museum unavaliable.

But surely Easter in Egypt is next weekend - Easter Sunday being the 15th April!

[BBLUX]

I think you are wrong Hepzi. Just checked the UK calendar and Easter Monday is 9th April.
Talked with the family yesterday and they were talking about their plans for this Easter weekend.
The festival Easter, also known as Sham El-Nessim, will be celebrated on 8th April in 2012 in Egypt.

Glyph, that person is causing chaos for the local SCA with his film crew so they have no time to organise other activities.

[HEPZIBAH]

I think you are wrong Hepzi. Just checked the UK calendar and Easter Monday is 9th April.
Talked with the family yesterday and they were talking about their plans for this Easter weekend.
The festival Easter, also known as Sham El-Nessim, will be celebrated on 8th April in 2012 in Egypt.
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No, I don't think so. I know it's Easter this weekend in the UK - it's Good Friday today - but I commented on Egyptian/Coptic Easter which I was given to understand was Easter Sunday on 15th April and by extension Sham El - Nessim would be on Monday 16th April!

I thought Sham El-Nessim was celebrated on a Monday and you have given the date for Sunday.

Edit: From a Coptic Website (although not specifically an Egyptian one) http://www.copticchurch.net/classes/cop ... submit.y=9

Coptic Holidays for 2012

The following is a list of Coptic Feasts, Fasts and other special occasions during the year of 2012.


7 Major Feasts
Christmas January 7, 2012
Epiphany January 20, 2012
Palm Sunday April 8, 2012
Easter April 15, 2012
Pentecost June 3, 2012
Ascension May 24, 2012
Annunciation April 7, 2012

[Goddess]

Yup - Hepzi's right.
Sham el Nessim is on Monday 15th April. It's easter in the UK this weekend.

[HEPZIBAH]

Yup - Hepzi's right.
Sham el Nessim is on Monday 15th April. It's easter in the UK this weekend.

Or Monday 16th April even!

[TonyC]

I rather like the Sham el-Nessim festival, or "Smelling of the Zephyrs" as I've seen it described. And it's got nothing to do with religion! It's a national holiday celebrated by Muslim and Christian to mark the beginning of Spring, when families go out picnicking for the day to enjoy the fresh breezes. I used to see families along the more rural stretches of the Nile troop down to the water's edge, or get boats to take them across to the sandbar islands, to enjoy their day. Mind you, some friends refused to take me to join in – "Too much smell of fish [it's the traditional picnic] and too many children", they'd say!

Yes, it always follows the Coptic Easter Day, and, yes, it's on April 16th this year!

[BBLUX]

Ok, I bow to your knowledge. However, my Sham el Nessim sentence was copied from a Coptic Egyptian website...hence the slightly odd phrasing

[Who2]

Saturday 6th
Dig Houses ?
Roof Bar
Nile Valley 'Goddit........
Sounds Good even better with stella anyone inviting the cat in the hat ? that'd be some fun,
most dig houses always held large quantities of booze, for 'entertaining only purposes,
'not a lot of people know that....
7 PM right........Tomorrow right?

[Goddess]

Yup - Hepzi's right.
Sham el Nessim is on Monday 15th April. It's easter in the UK this weekend.

Or Monday 16th April even!

[Who2]

Excellent lecture, Marcel turned out to be belgian and head of sales for Volvo Trucks, really clever guy and interesting subject ,it was packed, but archeologists don't seem to in-vibe very much, great thanks to 'Bazza, a very well organized and interesting event, cheers....

[BBLUX]

Not Belgian George but Dutch. Yes, it went very well and now he has another request from the Tour Guides Association of Luxor to make the presentation to them.
Might help to stop people being told the Stoppeleare House is the Carter house.

[Glyphdoctor]

Of course, after the bulldozing of Gurna the foreign dighouses were the only things left standing...Truly shameful!

[BBLUX]

There is a discussion on the merits of retaining the truely old historic dig houses (>100years) However the much more recent German House is set for removal in the very near future.

[A-Four]

However the much more recent German House is set for removal in the very near future.

Thank God for that. I have never forgiven that bloody house, for on one very cold night up there on the hills all the electricity was cut off for all time to all the old villages with little warning, while there in German House the electric lights and heaters burned bright that night. I remember this so very well, I was in that area that very night, and have never failed since to remind people who have worked from that 'house' since. Shame on them.

My only hope is I am on the WB the day they pull it down.

[Glyphdoctor]

I notice Metropolitan House is still there too.

[BBLUX]

The Metropolitan House comes under the category of historic as it was first built 100 years ago.