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Archaeology is my profession. Naturally, I like to talk about it, because there is so much interesting going on. I also think that Archaeology offers a lot to everyone, young and old.

Old video game screenshot from the game “Raiders of the Lost Ark” (1981)


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Archaeology Games

New publication out: Indiana Jones in video games

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2024-06-28

It took a while, but last week a new publication came out that includes a chapter by me. I am proud to be part of this volume and to be able to write a bit about video games. Not just about one particular Indiana Jones game, no, I write…

A screenshot of Flint Dibble during the Roe Rogan Experience podcast.


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Archaeology

Dibble vs. Hancock

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2024-05-03

A while back I was ranting about a new Netflix show called Ancient Apocalypse, created and hosted by Graham Hancock. Of course, I wasn’t the only archaeologist discussing the show, and many others weighed in. One of them was Flint Dibble, an academic currently working at Cardiff University, who…

3D render of the Ashurbanipal Banquet Scene | © Sebastian Hageneuer with kind permission of The British Museum


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Academia Archaeology

Presentation about the Banquet Scene of Ashurbanipal

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2024-04-19

A few days ago I gave a talk to an audience about my project on the Banquet Scene of Ashurbanipal. As I’m in the middle of the project itself, I wasn’t really sure what to talk about. So I just told the story of how I got started, what…

The photo shows the relief BM124794 of the British Museum, where Elamite nobles bring presents to the Neo-Assyrian king Assurbanipal.


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Archaeology

A new trip to the British Museum

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2024-03-29

I have already reported on my first visit and second visit to the BM. There I scanned the Ashurbanipal relief. I have also been to Berlin and Leiden to scan other fragments of the same relief. This week I returned to the British Museum to scan another piece of…

The image shows a small river and residential buildings in Leiden, the Netherlands.


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Archaeology

My trip to Leiden

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2024-03-15

So this week I made a trip to Leiden in the Netherlands as part of my “Queen’s Garden Relief Project”. The first day I visited the Faculty of Archaeology and the second day I was at the Rijksmuseum von Oudheden, where I scanned a particular piece of the larger…

The image shows shelfs after shelfs of archaeological finds. Photo: Sebasitan Hageneuer


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Archaeology

My trip to the Vorderasiatisches Museum

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2024-03-01
So the VAM is the “Vorderasiatisches Museum” in Berlin. I went to their archive to do some scanning and it was quite a view. The archive definitely reminds me of that end scene of the first Indiana Jones movie, although I couldn’t find the covenant…
This image shows the place I worked in with a lot of different gear. Foremost, you see two RTI domes that I used for scanning.


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Archaeology

Meet and Greet: Doing RTI in Austria

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2024-02-23

Last week I went to another project meeting in Bregenz, Austria. I was there to collect some more data for the Meet and Greet project I am currently involved in. This time I scanned a bunch of animal bones from excavations in Austria to evaluate the benefits of Reflectance…

Title cover of the Indiana Jones video game "The Great Circle". Machine Games, LucasArts.


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Archaeology Games

The Great Circle

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2024-01-26

Here it is. 15 years after the last Indiana Jones video game (apart from some weird pinball and LEGO games), we will get a new one. It will have an original story and the teaser looks absolutely stunning. “Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark is due…

A screen full of programming code. Photo by Shahadat Rahman on Unsplash


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Archaeology

A CIDOC CRM workshop

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2024-01-19

This week I attended part of a two day CIDOC CRM workshop run by Stephen Stead, who is actively involved in the creation and development of this ontology. I already knew a bit about CIDOC CRM, but I also learnt a lot, especially for my own projects.

What is CIDOC…

The entrance hall of the British Museum. Photo by Nicolas Lysandrou on Unsplash


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Academia Archaeology

Small project funded!

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2024-01-05

I have good news! Before Christmas, I did apply for a small funding scheme to finance a sub-project of mine. I got the news that it got funded! This is great as it allows me to travel to three museums to do some scanning and using the data to…

Sebastian Hageneuer
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