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…
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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…
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…