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I am (very) happy to announce that I will be giving lectures on a tour to Egypt on October 16-29, 2020. It’s not too early to start planning! On the contrary: the trip hasn’t been seriously advertised yet, and already four people have signed up!
The trip is sponsored by the University of North Carolina General Alumni Association, BUT — big point here! — you do not need to be an alumna/alumnus to come. It’s going to be a terrific trip. The final brochure is not ready yet, but you can get the itinerary already from the company putting it on, Orbridge, at: https://orbridge.com/grp_departures/overview/partner_unc_egypt_2020 (Highlights below)
It’s spectacular. I’ve done a number of these sites before (Cairo, Pyramids, Luxor, Valley of the Kingd, Karnak Temple, and on and on), BUT, this time we’re doing something I’ve never done before and always wanted to: a four-day cruise down the Nile. How good can it get???
If you want to get more info, call the UNC Alumni office at 877.962.3980, and/or check out their travel website.
Hear are a few of the highlights of the tour, from the Orbridge initial announcement.
- Enjoy two full days exploring Cairo, visiting the Great Pyramid and the Sphinx, the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities, and Khan El-Khalili bazaar.
- In Luxor, view the Karnak Temple Complex—one of the largest religious buildings in the world, which includes contributions from approximately 30 pharaohs over thousands of years.
- Travel beside the Nile to Abydos to marvel at the colorful carvings in the Temple of Seti I and view the Abydos King List, which was instrumental to understanding Ancient Egyptian history.
- On the west bank of Luxor, visit the Valley of the Kings and Nobles, the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, and Colossi of Memnon.
- Embark in Esna aboard a private dahabiya—a traditional Egyptian sailing vessel—for four nights on the Nile River.
- Sail to the Nile’s Elephantine and Soheil Islands and explore their sacred temples and traditional Nubian villages.
If you have any questions for me about it that are general in nature, go ahead and just make a comment here. If you have a personal question of anything (e.g., my shoe size or preferred single malt), feel free to drop me a note at [email protected]
You have a really amazing life!
It’s good work if you can get it….
Bart Ehrman dixit:
“BUT, this time we’re doing something I’ve never done before and always wanted to: a four-day cruise down the Nile. How good can it get???”
An extraordinary and very exciting cultural and tourist experience.
In 1976 a group of employees of Iberia LAE (Spanish Flag Airline in those days), we made a 5-day Nile cruise (my wife was the one who worked in Iberia, not me!)
Of course, things are now very different. In those years, only the very rich people, the top executives of the large international corporations and … the employees (and husbands) of the commercial airlines of a certain level, who did so with “free tickets, traveled on the airplanes.
In addition, in our case and in those years the cruises were operated by a subsidiary of the extinct PAN AM and practically they gave us away the cruise on the Nile, due to the good relations between Iberia and PAN AM employees at the airport of Madrid -Barajas.
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Whoever has money to accompany Bart Ehrman will find no better way to spend it than making that trip to Egypt.
And while you are there, go have tea in the Victorian halls of the Mena House Oberoy hotel in Cairo, very near Giza. They will understand what it was like to be a high official or high rank military officer in the days of British ciolonialism.
What are the chances this trip could be as wonderful as last year’s Israel trip?
Right up there!
Dr. Ehrman,
In what ways will your expertise in early Christianity be utilized on this amazing tour? At first glance it appears to be tours of history a couple millennia before Jesus.
Thanks, Jay
I’ll be lecturing about manuscript discoveries of early Christian texts in Egypt, e.g., the Gnostic Gospels. So it’ll both be pharaoh- era Egypt and early Xn Egypt.
That’s a long trip. Don’t you have class?
wish I could take them! As it is, I’ll set it up so I miss a minimum of classes and will have my absence covered by competent scholars in the field. I’ve rarely done this in my long career (missed class), but whenever I have, my students generally prefer the replacements….
Darn it Bart, don’t you ever take the poor school teachers into account, and try to organize a trip during July or August? Just joking, I wouldn’t be able to afford it regardless.
Ha! Did Greece and Turkey this past June. Fantastic!
My wife and I want to go more than a grad student wants a job! We’re in Ottawa.
I definitely want to join. Are there any requirements? I am not an UNC Alumni and I dont live in the US.
Go to the website I provided and you’ll see. It’s pretty easy to join up.
Does anyone want to go without a partner and also does not want to pay the “Single Rate”?
Please reply to this comment if you would not mind to share a room with me, so we both would only need to pay the “Classic Rate”.
Classic: $5,995
Suite: $6,995
Single (Classic): $9,995
https://orbridge.com/grp_departures/price/partner_unc_egypt_2020
This looks like a trip of a lifetime! How often will you be giving lectures during the trip?
Thanks
Not sure. Four maybe? Five? But I’ll be around the whole time to talk with people at length, apart from lectures.
Any chance of the Egypt trip happening this year. I signed up for last, but, well, you know. I see that UNC has the trip scheduled, but if you aren’t leading it, I’ll go someplace else.
I’m pretty sure they’re going to cancel it. If any traveling will be happening in June, I’m scheduled to do two trips, one to southern Italy/Rome and another to SW Coast of Croatia, not with UNC but with THalassa tours. I’ll post about them if it looks like they are going to happen.