In this workshop, the renowned Portuguese Egyptologist will provide the basic theoretical concepts for understanding hieroglyphic writing, its historical framework and will teach how to write, pronounce and transliterate the sacred writing of Ancient Egypt.
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Luís Manuel de Araújo
Luís Manuel de Araújo is an Egyptologist and professor at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon. With a degree in History, he then completed a postgraduate internship in Egyptology at the Faculty of Archeology at Cairo University, and a PhD in Literature (History and Pre-Classical Culture) at the University of Lisbon. He is a member of the Portuguese Academy of History, Portuguese Association of Writers, Association of Portuguese Archaeologists, Portuguese Association of Museology, International Association of Egyptologists, International Council of Museums and International Committee for Egyptology (CIPEG). Directed the Dictionary of Ancient Egypt (Lisbon, 2001) and studied the public and private Egyptian collections existing in Portugal, having been the scientific commissioner of the exhibition of Egyptian antiquities at the National Museum of Archeology and the new exhibition room of the Egyptian collection at the University of Porto, and scientific advisor to several exhibitions.
Since 2000, he has been leading study visits to Egypt, with programs designed by the Oriental Institute of the Faculty of Arts of Lisbon, with many of the travelers becoming regular attendees of the Egyptology courses at his Faculty and the cultural sessions at the National Museum of Archeology, organized by the Group of Friends of the Museum (of which he is president) or by the Portugal-Egypt Cultural Friendship Association (of which he is secretary). He has published more than two hundred articles, dictionary entries and critical reviews in various scientific and popular magazines, and is the author of fifteen books on Egyptological and Queiroz themes, some of them out of print.