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…
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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…