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


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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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Meet and Greet: Doing RTI in Austria

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2024-02-23

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

A person using Apple's vision Pro in practice. © Apple


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Technology

Apple’s Vision Pro and Archaeology

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2024-02-02

Let me start by telling you, that I am no Apple fan. I think it is overpriced and many applications I use can only be used inside a virtual machine, which simply doesn’t make sense to me. But one has to acknowledge, that Apple has made some major innovations….

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

There it is. 15 years after the last Indiana Jones video game (except some strange 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 Great Circle” is supposed to come out this…

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


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A CIDOC CRM workshop

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2024-01-19

This week I partly participated in a two-day CIDOC CRM workshop led by Stephen Stead, who is actively participating in creating and developing this ontology. I knew a bit about CIDOC CRM before, but also learnt a lot, especially for my own projects.

What is CIDOC CRM?

The CIDOC Conceptual Reference…

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…

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