The London-based Egypt Exploration Society has been awarded a grant that would see a redevelopment of their headquarters and the internationally vital Oxyrhynchus Papyri displayed in London for the primary time.
What the EES premises might seem like if their Constructing the Future marketing campaign is profitable (c) Egypt Exploration Society
The Egypt Exploration Society is among the UK’s oldest organisations devoted to the examine of historic Egypt. It was based in 1882, and since then, has funded excavations in over 150 websites throughout the northern Nile valley, together with Abydos, Deir el-Bahari, Amarna, and Memphis.
Since 1969, the organisation has been based mostly in former horse stables in Doughty Mews, Bloomsbury. Nevertheless, the buildings are displaying their age, so they’re engaged on a undertaking to redevelop them and make them match for the long run whereas additionally making it simpler to open the buildings to the general public.
Additionally they wish to create a devoted area for the safe storage of their papyri assortment, which might, for the primary time, present a chance to develop a centre for the examine and analysis of this materials in central London. Estimated to comprise over 500,000 fragments, the huge potential of the gathering for telling us extra about every day life within the historic world by Greek literary texts, fragments from New Testomony gospels, contracts, correspondence, and extra has not but been absolutely realised.
“The EES papyri assortment is to the New Testomony what the Lifeless Sea Scrolls are to the Previous Testomony!” (c) Egypt Exploration Society
They’re planning to submit a bid for a full Nationwide Lottery supply grant, which can safe as much as two-thirds of the undertaking’s price. Forward of that, the Nationwide Lottery Heritage Fund has granted them an preliminary £61,321 which can go in direction of the price of producing the complete bid paperwork.
Though the preliminary grant doesn’t assure that they are going to be awarded the complete quantity wanted to redevelop their headquarters, it’s normally seen as an indication of confidence that their early shows have benefit and are price additional investigation.
The intention is to have all of the work accomplished by the point the Egypt Exploration Society marks its a hundred and fiftieth anniversary.
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