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A while ago I ranted about a then new Netflix show called Ancient Apocalypse created and moderated by Graham Hancock. Naturally, I wasn’t the only archaeologist discussing this show and many more spoke out. One of them was Flint Dibble, a scholar currently affiliated with Cardiff University, who also…
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A couple days ago I was presenting about my project on the Banquet Scene of Ashurbanipal to an audience. As I am in the midst of the project itself, I wasn’t sure what to talk about really. I therefore just told the story how I started, what I have…
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Lately, I am very much concerned with getting funds to finance my life, but also my research ideas. It is a pretty normal thing to do after your PhD I guess, although stressful. While searching for funds to do my research I often come to a point, where I…
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So I have already reported about my first visit and my second visit at the BM. There, I scanned the Ashurbanipal relief. I was also in Berlin and Leiden to scan further fragments of the same relief. This week I returned to the British Museum to scan yet another…
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So I do not see myself as an expert, but I am doing this blog now for more or less exactly three years. Without some minor exceptions, I managed to publish a small article every.single.week. I am pretty proud of that, although I know my articles are not the…
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So this week I made a trip to Leiden, the Netherlands, as part of my “Queen’s Garden Relief Project”. The first day I was visiting the faculty of Archaeology and the second day, I was at the Rijksmuseum von Oudheden, where I was scanning a particular piece of the…
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So a while ago I have written about the teaser trailer to the Uncharted movie with Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg. I did not see the movie in the cinema and it took quiet a while until it was released on a platform that I already have access to….
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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…
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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….
Hi! My name is Sebastian. I am an archaeologist, a university lecturer, freelancer, guitarist, and father. You could say I am quiet busy, so I learned to manage my time and energy to build good habits and still have space for myself and my family. Sounds difficult? Read here how I do it. (Nearly) Every Friday.