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About the lecture
Alongside bread, beer was a staple of ancient Egypt, which also provides the earliest known evidence of brewing. The lecture introduces these ancient ‘breweries’, including sites at Hierakonpolis, Tell el-Farkha and Abydos. Egypt is exceptional because tomb reliefs also preserve brewing methods. We will trace changes in production, attitudes to beer and evidence from decoration and material culture from the earliest periods to the New Kingdom. You will also learn what Egyptian beer contained and whether experimental archaeology makes it possible to taste it today.
Katarína Arias studied Egyptology, Classical Archaeology, and the History and Culture of Islamic Countries at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, earning a doctorate in Egyptology. She has been a researcher at the Czech Institute of Egyptology since 2007. Her main interest is ancient Egyptian material culture, especially third-millennium pottery. She regularly joins excavations at Abusir and North Saqqara, as well as Tell Edfu with an American mission, Abu Ghurab with an Italian mission and Zawyet Sultan with a German mission. Since 2016 she has been an editor of Pražské egyptologické studie.
The lecture will be streamed online at the following link
Lecture date and time: 3. 12. 2025 at 17:30 – 19:00.
The lecture series was supported using public funds by the Slovak Arts Council.
