With complementary food and drinks slept off with a good night's sleep, the experts and attendees - and Heritage Key - poured back into the British Museum's BP Lecture Theatre for another day of Egyptological intrigue. But while others toiled on the tube and lost their way round the backstreets of Bloomsbury, I saw in the early hours with a lovely cup of coffee, eyes turned to Russell Square and all those losers rushing to their jobs. Wait, hold on a second - I'm at work today! Paper downed and latte (full-fat) gulped far too quickly, I made my way to the lecture hall, where I set up shop to watch the University of Bonn's much-respected Book of the Dead (BD) specialist Dr Irmtraut Munro enlighten us on the evidence of a master copy, transferred from Thebes to Memphis in the 26th Dynasty. Today's speeches all concern the BD in the Late Period and beyond, and to me at least seem more accessible than yesterday's presentations.
