by TESSA-Admin | May 27, 2020 | Society News
Some members and friends enjoyed the annual outing to Hartenberg, despite the lightly chilly wind. Due to costs we didn’t have a special speaker and the outing was just a social get together for members and friends. Lunch was served on huge platters placed at...
by TESSA-Admin | May 27, 2020 | Society News
By Jane Mulder On Saturday 19th April a number of TESSA members, as well as a few non-members, were welcomed by Dr Lambert Vorster to his home to view his extensive eclectic collection of artefacts that he has collected over many years and from many parts of the...
by TESSA-Admin | May 27, 2020 | Society News
UK LECTURER DYLAN BICKERSTAFFE – TWO LECTURES – ON 27TH AUGUST AND TESSA DAY SCHOOL AUGUST 31ST – MAJOR SUCCESSES! Royal Ladies of the New Kingdom – presented by Dylan Bickerstaffe – A Day School – By Ted Loukes It was certainly colder than I had...
by TESSA-Admin | Jan 27, 2018 | Society News
A warm welcome to members and visitors this the 21st AGM of The Egyptian society of South AfricaOnce again, I can say that this has been an interesting, eventful and enjoyable year; like last year the committee operated with 5 instead of 6 committee members, your...
by TESSA-Admin | Jul 20, 2016 | Society News
Our annual day school took place this year at our home venue of St George’s GS. Many grateful thanks are due to the school’s event organiser, Stephen Bornman and helpers for helping make this such a good day! The JM hall was transformed into an elegant...
by TESSA-Admin | Jul 7, 2016 | Shemu Articles
By Anand Balaji The death of Pharaoh Amenhotep III of the illustrious Eighteenth Dynasty in ancient Egypt enabled his second son Amenhotep IV (r. 1353-1336 BCE) to inherit an empire of opulence. Ably assisted by Nefertiti, his Great Royal Wife, the young pharaoh...
by TESSA-Admin | Apr 29, 2015 | Shemu Articles
By Jane Mulder Myths abound about the curse to be visited on those who disturb Ancient Egyptian burials, the most famous “victim” being Lord Carnarvon who died not long after he and Carter opened Tutankhamun’s tomb. But there is an even older account of a mummy’s...
by TESSA-Admin | Sep 18, 2014 | Shemu Articles
By Jane Mulder When there is a dearth of concrete evidence theories will be formulated, and until further information comes to light such hypotheses often become part of the accepted record. To a certain extent this applies to the genealogy of Ancient Egypt’s 4th and...
by TESSA-Admin | Sep 18, 2014 | Shemu Articles
By Keith Grenville Hatshepsut, the most famous female pharaoh, reigned for 21 years from approximately1479 BCE until 1458 BCE, 26 years before Tutankhamun and probably more than 200 years before the supposed time of Moses. Hatshepsut’s magnificent terraced...
by TESSA-Admin | Oct 21, 2013 | Shemu Articles
By David Furlong In my early visits to Egypt, which started in 1991, I often used to stand on the central axis of different temples and wonder at the alignment intention of their founders. In those early days there was no simple way of determining accurately temple...
