# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Free Hybrid Lecture: The Future of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 11 Mar, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Wed, 11 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Could some of our familiar ideas about the ancient Egyptian afterlife be more Christian than Egyptian? Recent studies suggest that themes we often assume to be central, such as judgment, salvation, and eternal life, were profoundly shaped by the Christian expectations of early Egyptologists. This poses a significant challenge for contemporary Egyptology: how should we think about ancient Egyptian religion when our basic framework has been shaped so strongly by Christianity rather than by Egyptian evidence? 

Rune Nyord, Associate Professor and Chair, Art History Department, Emory University, proposes a new way forward that re-centers the social setting of the ancestor cult and considers funerary texts such as the Book of the Dead as ritual texts—continuous with other Egyptian ritual practices—rather than as “guidebooks” to the afterlife.

Advance registration is recommended: 
https://tinyurl.com/FutureEgyptAfterlife

Free parking is available at the 52 Oxford Street Garage starting at 5 pm.

Detail of Hunefer: Papyrus of Hunefer. British Museum, EA9901. © The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
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## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://tinyurl.com/FutureEgyptAfterlife?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=cambridge-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Cambridge
- **state**: MA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
- **lat**: 42.37819
- **long**: -71.11624
- **full address**: Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East (https://allevents.in/org/harvard-museum-of-the-ancient-near-east/21392241)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 11 Mar, 2026 at 06:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** contests, art, nonprofit
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