Dealing with the Dead in Ancient Egypt: The Funerary Business of Petebaste Koenraad Donker Van Heel AUC Press ISBN 9781617979965 156 pp. $29.95 After three delightful popular books about entrepreneurs in ancient Egypt (see reviews here and here), Koen Donker van Heel is back with a worthy fourth installment in the series. It deals with mortuary…
Short update and a museum game
So it’s been a million years since I last blogged, because three things happened: 1) Covid (don’t even get me started) 2) Getting a funded PhD position and subsequently moving to Germany 3) My mother died So 2020 has been a hell of a bumpy ride, and I am nowhere near recovering. Right now I…
People of the Cobra Province
With The People of the Cobra Province in Egypt (Oxbow Books, 2020), Wolfram Grajetzki attempts to write a ‘history from below’ of the Wadjet nome, a province south of Asyut in Middle Egypt. Here, about 5000 burials have been uncovered of the farming population, many of which are poor surface burials. Little Old and Middle…
Luxor Journal
On this 91st consecutive Sunday since lockdown, I thought it might be nice to write about my stay in Egypt in November-December of last year. It’s based on my actual journal, with some accompanying photos. Enjoy! 18 November 2019 On a dreary Monday in November, after my short contract working on a project in a…