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…
Author: Nicky B
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…
Book review: The Ancient Egyptian Economy
Brian Muhs, The Ancient Egyptian Economy: 3000–30 BCE Cambridge University Press, 2016 ISBN: 9781316286364 During my Egyptology studies in Leiden I repeatedly followed the course in Demotic Papyrology by Brian Muhs. Repeatedly, because it took a while before the penny dropped, if ever it did. In class we read fantastical stories about Setne Khamwas, the…