Congratulations on your 5 year anniversary.

It's official, my first solo-authored book (my second book altogether) is coming out the end of October! 🧪👩🏺 And the thing I'm the proudest is I painted (watercolor) the cover! 1/2 www.routledge.com/Thinking-thr...

Happy to emerge back onto Bluesky and participate in discussions in all things Ancient Egypt, Egyptomania, and Cultural Heritage. Passed the defence of my PhD dissertation and working now on finishing up final edits. Excited to be back here!

Most people know of Mesopotamia's ancient art, but a new show at Bard College's Hessel Museum highlights the almost forgotten range of Baghdad's modern art movement, many works of which were lost during & after the 2003 U.S. invasion: wapo.st/3Kks6Wo [gift link]

Grading essays may seem like a trek at times, but it’s also rewarding. I came across a paper where a student related personal anecdotes in response to reading Egyptian primary sources. It was powerful and their response offered up new questions and perspectives to think about the material.

What stage of democratic breakdown is it when corporate CEO's have to favor the president with personal gifts in order to ensure favorable treatment from the government?

At long last. Long, long overdue.

If a student ever asks me again why we should not separate the ancient from modern history of a country, this is a great study for why.

Eager to paint Howard Carter as a hero, Egyptology has been slow to confront the open secret of his thefts from the tomb (except when one US collector/‘mummy’ expert wanted to publicise his 2022 book…). This article lays it out clearly: will the July 27th auction of this item go ahead? 📜🏺🗃️ #Egypt

Google's AI summaries are - killing traffic to legitimate sites - producing summaries that can be wrong - in the long run probably making you a dumbass www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...

Why the American School of Overseas Research might be legally liable for complicity w genocide as per Francesca Albanese's new report Despite 2 years of genocide, ASOR continues to fund work in Israel. Take this seemingly innocent post 1/ 🧵

Who said pottery ain’t glamorous!

@mark-carney.bsky.social Mr. Carney, I came across this highly problematic behaviour by Liberal Staffers in Ottawa and I am hoping you would take action against ensuring this would never happen again. Such behaviour reflects poorly on the Liberal Party and this should never be tolerated.

Taking steps forward with my degree and am looking forward to finishing up soon. Lots of revising and editing awaits me while I also teach two undergrad courses on #AncientEgypt! Up and forward!

Huge news out of Canada: M. Trudeau will resign as Liberal leader and eventually as PM. Just hoping now that this avoids a Conservative gov’t…

On my way to invigorating an exam this morning. How is it already Dec. 11? Where has November gone or October for that matter?

Thought-provoking article on how we make sense of “Prehistory”. The authors touch really well on the complexity and opt for the term “Deep History” instead: www.sapiens.org/archaeology/... #history #prehistory

Friday at #ASOR24 begins in session 5G with a talk on the impact of trade on agricultural evolution in the Northern Horn of Africa by Helina Woldekiros.

Picture my excitement 😃 as I approached. And then picture my reaction when I had a closer look 😭😭 - it’s obv not lapis-lazuli. Just a dark blue coloured fake boulder with metallic-looking patches. Come on! #ASOR24

Made my way down to the Mesopotamia session at #ASOR24 today and my eyes caught sight of a large dark-blue coloured boulder affixed to a wall today 👀⬇️. Could it be?

Enjoyed some wonderful talks at #ASOR24 this morning on the topic of Cultural Heritage. Great questions by the audience around stakeholders, increasing accessibility and source community involvement in all decisions/research/events./1

Happening now at #ASOR2024: Dr. Kulakoğlu’s plenary address on the “Transition from EB to MB Age at Kültepe”.

Just got into Boston ahead of #ASOR2024 starting tomorrow. Anyone around? Looking forward to participating in Friday’s 5G session on Interconnectivity in North Africa with my paper on the Use of Lapis-Lazuli in A-Groups Nubia.

I am shocked and beyond words. Aside from ON Government knowing for months and doing nothing about it, the news of the closure of the Science Centre is a huge, huge loss to the city's cultural make-up, especially for children. Horrendous decision and reflects poorly on our city!

Here a nice podcast on all things Ancient Egypt (but in German 🇩🇪). Recently they celebrated their 2 year anniversary. Cheers that and look forward to seeing more episodes - details: mummies-magic.de

Es werden wieder alle sagen wie unglücklich der Glubb heute war. Man wird das Pech betonen. Aber: die 2 Gegentore waren viel zu einfach selbst verschuldet. Auf das sollte man schauen, nicht auf das Pech.

Schön zu lesen dass die Clubfrauen 1-0 in Köln führen. Ich hoffe die halten den Vorsprung und schaffen es noch aus der Gefahrenzone. Weiter so!

Ramadan Kareem to all who mark the holy month of Ramadan.

New discovery: 3.8 m tall piece of a monumental statue of Ramesses II unearthed near Minya. Yes, yet another Ramesses II statue… as if there weren’t plenty already 🤪 www.reuters.com/science/arch... #egyptology

Absolutely love this new resource created by Google Arts & Culture in conjunction with RAWI Publishing and Egypt’s Tourism Authority. It lays bare the diverse and rich heritage of Egyptian cuisine across the ages. Enjoy learning about Egyptian food! Yum!

Nice to be on Bluesky and hoping for engaging conversations about #egyptology, #museums, and all things ancient. And 1.FC Nürnberg! 😄