I needed a break. I needed a very long break. And then I needed a break from that break. It was a cold morning in early January when the taxi driver pulled up in front of the house. Because of the heavy snowfall he had left home early – I was his first customer. Slowly…
Category: Old Kingdom elite tombs
The digital past: network analysis, 3D and photogrammetry
Digital Egyptology news can now be followed at my website https://digitalegyptology.org/ 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…
Bread and beer for Hetepherakhet
The offering chapel of Hetepherakhet, now housed in the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, was once part of a mastaba tomb in the Old Kingdom necropolis at Saqqara. The chapel was excavated hurriedly by the famous archaeologist Auguste Mariette in the 1860’s. At that time, Mariette fanned around Egypt like an archaeological sandstorm, undertaking…