Alumni kudos!

Kudos to… Heidi Hilliker (MSP20) who visited the Sohag National Museum in Sohag, Egypt, this past winter to see the fully installed exhibition that she and Janet Richards (Kelsey museum curator and Abydos Middle Cemetery (AMC) project director) had worked on. Designed, conserved, and curated by AMC Project participants and staff from the Kelsey and Sohag museums, “The Governor of Upper Egypt Weni the Elder and the Origins of the Osiris Festival” displays objects excavated at the AMC during the mid-19th century together with those uncovered by the Michigan team since 1999. While in Egypt, Heidi continued her thesis research on the social contexts of textile production through visits to contemporary weaving shops in Saqqara, Luxor, and Akhmim, and her study of textile collections held in Egyptian museums and institutes. (The photo shows Heidi and Rasha Hany Ahmed (AMC project epigrapher) at the Weni exhibition in Sohag.)