ICE 2023

How many of you were aware that our Congress opening and dinner were held in historic surroundings? We love seeing these photos next to each other!

The deadline for contributions to the ICE13 Proceedings has been extended until 15 April!

We have already received many contributions to the Proceedings of the 13th International Congress of Egyptologists – but by popular demand, we have extended the final deadline until 15 April 2024.

We are looking forward to receiving your contribution!

Read more: https://universiteitleiden.email-provider.eu/web/gt4ybibkyo/r5iohfrqsk/vcn5bnn3wx/9mc7mvp9rw

We are very happy and proud that the new building for Leiden University that will house the NINO library and many other institutes and departments will bear the name of Egyptologist Herta Mohr!

Announcement new name Cluster Zuid Today, Leiden University announces who the new Cluster Zuid on the Witte Singel will be named after. Summer 2023, a ballot determined the name of the complex on the former Van Wijkplaats/Van Eyckhof, which is expected to be completed in March. It was already established that the complex would be nam...

We offer our deepest condolences on the passing of Prof. Ibrahim Musa Mohammed Hamdon (1953-2024), Director General of the Sudanese National Corporation of Antiquities and Museums (NCAM) and professor at Neelain University.

We feel incredibly fortunate for Prof. Musa's participation as an invited speaker at the ICE 2023 opening ceremony last August, where he gifted the Egyptological community with a moving speech that will always be with us.

🎶 Dear Egyptologists:
In the Netherlands, we celebrate Sinterklaas tonight!
We’ll exchange gifts and poems with all our might.
In August, many of you paid us a visit
to join our congress, and we’re happy you did it!
Remember: we would really appreciate
your text for the proceedings – before 15 March, don’t be late!🎶

Best wishes from Leiden, Sint & Piet.*

✅ The Guidelines for contributions to the Proceedings of the 13th International Congress of Egyptologists are available at: https://www.nino-leiden.nl/message/Guidelines-for-the-Proceedings-of-the-13th-International-Congress-of-Egyptologists.

* 📜 It is a Dutch Sinterklaas tradition to accompany the gifts 🎁 given this evening with a humorous poem teasing the recipient.

📸Leidsch Dagblad.

Guidelines for Contributions to the Proceedings of the 13th International Congress of Egyptologists (ICE 2023):

Deadline: 15 March 2024.

* Only papers and posters included in the congress programme may be submitted as a contribution to the congress proceedings. We invite all paper and poster presenters to check their email for our latest update on the 13th ICE Proceedings.

The Proceedings of the 13th International Congress of Egyptologists will appear in the Egyptologische Uitgaven series published by Peeters Publishers, Leuven, and the Netherlands Institute for the Near East, Leiden. The Organising Committee of the 13th ICE edits the proceedings.

Our Guidelines for the ICE 13 Proceedings are based on the rules for short communications in the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology and reiterate a few important points from these rules (www.ice2023.com/en/news/proceedings). The full Journal of Egyptian Archaeology Style Guidelines are available as a pdf download at www.ees.ac.uk/writing-for-the-jea (button “JEA Referencing Guide”).

* Important: Compliance with the Guidelines for the ICE 13 Proceedings, as well as the quality of the contribution’s language, will be checked by the editors. Both criteria will be decisive for accepting the papers, meaning submission does not guarantee publication unless the language and format meet the required standards.

📸 Bibliotheca Thysiana, Leiden.

Congress photos on our website 🥳‼️

Go to the Congress photos page on our website to view or download memories of an extraordinary Congress week!

👩🏻‍💻📸–> https://ice2023.com/en/photos.

Congress photos Below is a selection of photos taken during the 13th International Congress of Egyptologists, 6-11 August 2023 in Leiden, by official congress photographer Ashley Wilkinson.

More on the Leiden Unified Transliteration/Translation, this time on Dutch radio: Olaf Kaper tells Wilfried de Jong how a breakthrough consensus was reached in Met het Oog op Morgen.

Headlining 📰 in Dutch national newspaper NRC: “Finally, there is again a standard for converting hieroglyphs to the Latin script.”

As Olaf Kaper explains: After more than a century, Egyptologists have once again established a standard for converting the most important hieroglyphs. 🤝 Everyone used to have their own system.

Together with the lectures and workshops, 55 posters were presented to the ICE 2023 participants in four thematic poster sessions: “Funerary and cultic practices”, “Digital Egyptology”, “History and archaeology”, and “Heritage, reception and museology”.

On Wednesday, the ICE XIII Scientific Committee members awarded three ICE-BAR Publishing poster prizes:

🥇”Middle Kingdom Female Figurines: A Case of Dots and Dashes – Deciphering the Code”, by Angela M. J. Tooley.

🥈”The Death of Greco-Roman Egypt. Defining Ethnicity through Iconography: BD Spell 151 and the Funerary Motifs on Ptolemaic and Roman Mummy Masks and Cases”, by Lorelei Corcoran.

🥉”From Dig to Digital: The Future of Scarab Documentation”, by Vanessa Boschloos (coauthored with Alexander Ilin-Tomich).

📸 Ashley Wilkinson Photography.

The thematic workshops were one of the highlights of ICE 2023 🤓. Together with the very successful “Transliteration Meeting”, other six public workshops were held during the Congress week:

- Open Forum: The Future of Ancient Egypt.
- Early Career Workshop.
- AI Workshop: ChatGPT and LMM in Egyptology.
- Big Data Workshop.
- Institutions in the spotlight.
- Museum Workshop: Engaging (young) audiences.

📸 Ashley Wilkinson Photography.

One of the innovative and special social events of the ICE 2023 was the 🎤 Early Career Event 🥳, hosted at the Oranjerie of the Hortus botanicus Leiden 🌳.

More than 200 BA and MA students, PhD candidates and recent postdocs joined for the drinks, finger food and inspiring talks organised by the Leiden Study Association Dispute Pleyte in collaboration with The International Association of Egyptologists.

During the Congress week of ICE 2023, crowded hallways, bookstands, lecture rooms and poster lounges were the daily routine 😄. Thank you to all the participants for the fantastic atmosphere.

🎥 Excellent news for our registered participants! All the lectures of the 13th International Congress of Egyptologists (ICE 2023) are now available via the Recorded Lectures menu of the Congress app. This includes a complete registration of the Festive Opening Ceremony held at the Stadsgehoorzaal 🤩

Do not miss the opportunity to rewatch any talk or follow a session you couldn’t attend during the Congress week. You have until September 10 to do so!

Here are the official ✨group pictures✨of the 13th International Congress of Egyptologists (ICE 2023). The photos were taken at the end of the Festive Opening Ceremony at the Grand Hall of the Stadsgehoorzaal on Sunday and after the Closing Ceremony at the Lipsius Building (Universiteit Leiden / Leiden University) on Friday. It was marvellous to welcome & host more than 800 Egyptologists in our city!

1️⃣ ICE XIII Organising Committee.
2️⃣ ICE XIII Crew: volunteers & Organising Committee.
3️⃣, 4️⃣, 5️⃣ & 6️⃣: ICE XIII Group Photos, with all participants present at the Opening in the hall + the ICE XIII Organising Committee, the president(s) of the International Association of Egyptologists, and the Egyptian Delegation (Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities وزارة السياحة والآثار) on the stage.

Sunday afternoon-evening: the Festive Opening Ceremony of ICE 2023 at the Stadsgehoorzaal Leiden with greetings, speeches & keynote lectures by:

⭐️ Prof. Dr Olaf Kaper (President of the Organising Committee of the ICE XIII & Master of Ceremonies for the Opening);
🏘 Drs. Henri Lenferink (Mayor of Leiden);
🇪🇬 H.E. Hatem Elsayed Abd Elkader (Egyptian Ambassador to The Netherlands);
🌍 Prof. Dr Willeke Wendrich (President of the IAE);
🏫 Prof. Dr Ab de Jong (Director of the LIAS, Leiden University);
🏛 Dr Mostafa Waziry (Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities);
💼 Prof. Dr Khaled el-Enany (former Egyptian Minister of Tourism and Antiquities);
🎓 Prof. Dr Ola el-Aguizy (Cairo University);
👩🏻‍🏫 Dr Monica Hanna (Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport);
🇸🇩 Dr Ibrahim M***a (Head of the Sudanese National Corporation of Antiquities and Museums);
✨ Dr Miriam Müller (Treasurer of the ICE XIII)

& marvellous music by our DJ, Disco Arabesquo 🎶🥳

📸 Ashley Wilkinson Photography (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11 & 13), Corey Neumeier (1, 8 & 10), and Andrés Martín García de la Cruz (12).

Starting today, the ICE 2023 official social media channels will share glimpses of last week’s Congress week 🤩. Most of the photographs were captured by our Congress photographer, Ashley Wilkinson Photography, but there will also be some external additions.

✨Keep posted to re-experience ICE XIII’s fantastic Egyptological week.✨

🏛 Sunday afternoon: the arrival of Congress guests and participants at the Stadsgehoorzaal for the Festive Opening Ceremony of ICE XIII.

📸 A. Wilkinson (1 & 3-10) & C. Lechuga (2-3).

GREAT NEWS: At the 13th International Congress of Egyptologists a standardised transliteration of the Ancient Egyptian language was established!

The Leiden Unified Transliteration/Transcription has been accepted by the members of The International Association of Egyptologists as the new standard in the transliteration/transcription of the Ancient Egyptian language.

Read more on the 13th ICE website: https://ice2023.com/en/news/lut

The 13th International Congress of Egyptologists () is about to take off 🛫

Check in at the both on Saturday & Sunday morning was a big success. From 14:00h onwards the check in will move to the , where the ICE Festive Opening Ceremony will take place. Doors open at 14:00h, we wait for all of you here! 🎉

The city of Leiden is getting ready to host the 13th International Congress of Egyptologists (ICE 2023) 🤩 next week!

From August 1, the city has gained some colours thanks to the ICE city banners & flags. You can find them at all hotspots of the city centre and neighbouring areas! 🥳

In the upcoming days and during the Congress week, new Egyptological surprises are to come! Keep your eyes open and enjoy spotting the Congress decorations! 😊