Belgian expansionism and the making of Egyptology, 1830-1952

Lecture Vincent Oeters: Not a curse “of” but rather “on” the mummy?! Frans Jonckheere, the alleged mummy of Butehamun, and the rise of the study of ancient Egyptian medicine in Belgium (1939-1956)

Frans Jonckheere from ROBERT O. STEUER, Frans Jonckheere (1903–1956), Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume XIV, Issue 10, October 1959, Pages 515–51.

On Thursday May 13, 2021, P&P-member Vincent Oeters MA will give a lecture at the Current Research in Egyptology 2020/2021 Conference which will be hosted by the University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece from 9-16 May 2021. The title of his lecture will be “Not a curse “of” but rather “on” the mummy?! Frans Jonckheere, the alleged mummy of Butehamun, and the rise of the study of ancient Egyptian medicine in Belgium (1939-1956)”

9 May 2021 (11:22)