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…
Author: Nicky B
Digital Egyptology news
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 from Steam. I don’t own a VR headset myself, but this video…
Enjoying Luxor
Now the sun is finally shining in the Netherlands it’s time to tell you about our trip to Luxor in February. Again we stayed at the Nile Valley Hotel overlooking the Nile, which is both close to the ferry and to the monuments on the West Bank. We inhabited the brand new ‘penthouse’, with its…
Tutorial: Drawing in Inkscape
As an alternative for drawing in Illustrator, there is free, open source software available that allows you to do something similar: Inkscape. After starting up Inkscape, don’t open but import (File > Import) the photo you’re going to use. In the horizontal toolbar, click View Layers (Shift + Ctrl + L). The layer menu appears on…