In November of 2022 I went on an expedition to Egypt together with my dear friend Marein. My goal was to travel from south to north, visiting sites and tombs along the way to get a feel for the the landscape while documenting landscape scenes in the tombs that we passed. This in light of…
Category: Archaeology
Digging up the past in films
Recently I have been watching a number of films loosely related to archaeology, or more accurately, ‘digging up the past’. This includes paleontology (‘Sweet, you’re an archaeologist. What are you digging up, dinosaurs?’) and the more ephemeral digging up of memories. Here goes. In Luxor (2020), we follow British aid worker Hana taking a break…
People of the Cobra Province
With The People of the Cobra Province in Egypt (Oxbow Books, 2020), Wolfram Grajetzki attempts to write a ‘history from below’ of the Wadjet nome, a province south of Asyut in Middle Egypt. Here, about 5000 burials have been uncovered of the farming population, many of which are poor surface burials. Little Old and Middle…
Searching for the Lost Tombs of Egypt
In the past few years, the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities has had an active policy of reporting new discoveries in Egypt on a frequent basis, to keep Egypt positively in the news as well as interest tourists in visiting the country. Indeed tourism has largely picked up again since the 2011 revolution, and in the…
Digital Egyptology News
Digital Egyptology news can now be followed at my website https://digitalegyptology.org/ Following up on last time’s rant, I here present the latest in Digital Egyptology! Search museum collections Perhaps you have heard by now of the awesome Cleo project, which uses AI to search within four big museum collections: the National Museum of Antiquities, the…
The digital past: network analysis, 3D and photogrammetry
Digital Egyptology news can now be followed at my website https://digitalegyptology.org/ Recently I’ve been getting a lot of inspiration for new digital projects by attending some very insightful workshops. In March, the Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities showed us how to use Visone to study power relations between 15th century Florentine families. I am very interested…
Digital Egyptology news
Digital Egyptology news can now be followed at my website https://digitalegyptology.org/ Exciting things are happening in the field of Digital Egyptology! A selection of projects: Tomb of Nefertari Experius VR have 3D scanned the tomb of Nefertari, allowing you to virtually walk around in it using a Vive headset. The VR experience can be downloaded…
Archaeogaming and Egyptology
Digital Egyptology news can now be followed at my website https://digitalegyptology.org/ Good news: researching video games in the context of archaeology is a thing now! It’s called ‘archaeogaming’ and covers everything from the digging up of actual video games (think of the Atari video game burial) to the digitally ‘excavating’ of code inside an old…