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INVITATION BRITISH MUSEUM Lecture Birth in Kemet: the mysterious carved tusks of Middle Kingdom Egypt Thursday 15 May (Not 7 MAY 2015), 13.30–14.30 Stevenson Lecture Theatre Free, booking essential Book online Stephen Quirke, Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology at University College London, looks at the ideas and practices surrounding human birth and identity in Middle Kingdom Egypt (2000–1700 BC). He traces the elusive world of birth through material culture, starting from the figures on an extraordinary ‘birth tusk’ now in the British Museum. Discoveries in the past 15 years shed new light on this imagery, and some of their meaning may become clearer with wider horizons of research into birth in ancient and modern Africa.