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 Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Walters Art Museum and the Brooklyn…
Author: Nicky B
The past is digital: network analysis, 3D reconstruction and photogrammetry
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 in the possibility of applying network analysis to Old Kingdom mastaba…
Museums and inclusivity
I’m looking for a new job. Actually I’ve never considered what kind of job that ought to be, as I always assumed I’d do a PhD first and worry about jobs later. But lately I’ve been talking to a lot of people about the work they’re doing and what they enjoy about it, to get…
Musings about Luxor
While night falls over 2018 and fireworks are popping, I fondly think back of my latest sojourn in Luxor. It feels a bit double, because of the recent terrorist attack that killed four people in Giza. Even before this incident, my non-Egyptologist colleagues were a bit wary about my enthusiasm of spending pre-Christmas holidays in…