From 23-24 September, I attended a workshop on “Future Developments of Digital Humanities and Didactics in Global Ancient Studies” at Northeastern Normal University in Changchun, China. It was one of the friendliest and most interesting workshops I have been lucky enough to attend. The long journey to Changchun was rewarded with lots of hospitality and…
Today a joint paper with Springer has been published on a woolly rhino on a rock slab that I analysed using Reflectance Transformation Imaging. My part was actually very small, but I am still happy that this paper is out now and open access! It is also my first paper with the Journal of Paleolithic…
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 about all of them. Well, almost…
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 also hosts a YouTube channel, Archaeology…
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 I have done so far and…
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 puzzle. Unfortunately, many of the…
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 Ashurbanipal Banquet Scene… The faculty of…
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…
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 Transformation Imaging (RTI). The results are…
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 out this year and as an…