My book, "𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴": 𝘓𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘝𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘺𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘥 𝘛𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘴 is now out! brill.com/display/titl...

Time is running out to submit an abstract to the 𝐀𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 session at the next ASOR Annual Meeting (November 18–21, 2026) in Chicago. The session's theme this year is “Language and People.” Abstracts may be submitted now through March 15 here: www.asor.org/am/2026/call...

I wrote this overview of studies about boundaries and borderscapes in Pharaonic Egypt for a special issue of Etudes et Travaux! Check it out, and I hope you’ll also read the incredible work so many of my colleagues are doing on this subject! www.etudesettravaux.iksiopan.pl/index.php/en...

𝐂𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐞: 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐄𝐠𝐲𝐩𝐭 Join experts for a series of lectures exploring unique festivals that celebrate the gods of ancient Egypt. The Met Fifth Avenue Thursday, December 4, 2025 2–5 pm engage.metmuseum.org/events/educa...

If you've ever wanted to hear me talk about art and ancient Egyptian deities, a video tour of Divine Egypt, the new exhibition on view at The Met, is now up on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wyh... #DivineEgypt

I am giving a talk this Sunday (October 19th) at The Met, New York, in conjunction with the new exhibition 𝘋𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘌𝘨𝘺𝘱𝘵 (which I worked on). engage.metmuseum.org/events/educa... #DivineEgypt

Go Birds! Several Egyptian hieroglyphic signs are birds. Here are some common bird signs and their meanings/uses: [resurrecting an old but topical thread]

Really happy to see this article come out, as it was a joy collaborating with @brendanhainline.bsky.social, Serena Niccolini, and Maria Gatto on this work discussing political boundaries in the later Old Kingdom near the Nile’s First Cataract. www.etudesettravaux.iksiopan.pl/index.php/en...

I thought a good first post to Bluesky would be to talk about how ancient Egyptians would have said “blue sky.” This ended up being a lot more challenging than I expected.