Dr Bill Manley
The Talk to be held in the church on 4 April at 2 pm will be given by Dr Bill Manley, an archaeologist, Egyptologist, author and lecturer. His subject will be The Copts: Early Christian Egypt 300 – 800 AD.
Dr Manley, honorary president of Egyptology Scotland, is best known for devising popular forms of access to the study of Ancient Egypt. Bill’s books have been translated into more than twenty-five languages.
For many years he has taught Egyptology and Coptic at the University of Glasgow, while his publications include standard textbooks for adult learners and university students, such as The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt (1996), How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs (1998, with Mark Collier), Egyptian Hieroglyphs for Complete Beginners (2012), Egyptian Art (2017) and The Oldest Book in the World: Philosophy in the Age of the Pyramids (2023).
He is currently working on the Wadi C2 Project near Luxor.
He has also worked with archaeological surveys in Egypt and Palestine, was a Senior Curator at National Museums Scotland from 2005-2010, is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool, and teaches Egyptology occasionally at Complutense University, Madrid.
Bill’s specialist output has included museum exhibitions and contributions to scholarly publications and encyclopaedias on Ancient Egyptian and Coptic texts, the history of Egyptology, the archaeology of Palestine, and the world’s earliest philosophy.
