I’ve been meaning to write another blog for a while now, but my past year has been an incredible mess. As you may know my mother died very suddenly short of a year ago, just as I was starting my PhD in Mainz between two waves of the pandemic. When I gained the courage to…
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Dealing with the Dead
Dealing with the Dead in Ancient Egypt: The Funerary Business of Petebaste Koenraad Donker Van Heel AUC Press ISBN 9781617979965 156 pp. $29.95 After three delightful popular books about entrepreneurs in ancient Egypt (see reviews here and here), Koen Donker van Heel is back with a worthy fourth installment in the series. It deals with mortuary…
Short update and a museum game
So it’s been a million years since I last blogged, because three things happened: 1) Covid (don’t even get me started) 2) Getting a funded PhD position and subsequently moving to Germany 3) My mother died So 2020 has been a hell of a bumpy ride, and I am nowhere near recovering. Right now I…
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…