When Thomas Cook went bankrupt in September 2019, hundreds of thousands of holiday makers were stranded. Tens of thousands of employees were out of a job, including many local service providers. Thomas Cook and Son was a household name in the travel industry, two men who single-handedly invented organised travel, and paved the way for…
From the bust of Nefertiti to the head of Tutankhamun
When Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley visited Bolton Museum as a child, she was unaware that the bust of Nefertiti she admired there was in fact a replica. She soon found copies of the work popping up in museums around England. The original bust was first displayed when the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun was causing…
A visit to Cambridge
Last week the Do Not Touch? 3D in Museums conference took place organised by The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. In order to give a very short talk (5 minutes!) about digitising the tomb chapel of Hetepherakhty, I paid a visit to this lovely town. Thanks to the awesome Rennan Lemos I was a guest at…
Digital Egyptology News
Following up on last time’s rant, I here present the latest in Digital Egyptology! Search museum collections Perhaps you have heard by now of the awesome Cleo project, which uses AI to search within four big museum collections: the National Museum of Antiquities, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Walters Art Museum and the Brooklyn…