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


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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…

A pile of five books on the table. Photo by dlxmedia.hu on Unsplash


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Book Review

My top 5 books of 2023

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2023-12-29

What a year full of books! As I did the previous years, I wanted to dedicate the last post of the year to the top 5 books of 2023. They are not necessarily from 2023, but I read them in 2023. I did some reviews of them this year, but not…

The Twitter and X logo beside each other. Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash


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Personal

Why I left Twitter

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2023-12-22

Yes, I am calling it Twitter. I discovered the social platform in September 2018 and was very excited entering a network of people who seemed very nice and supportive. I spend a lot of time and energy to build up a small audience, but I fear it was all…

This screenshot from Unity shows the plug-in XPresS XR in action assembling a display in a virtual museum


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Archaeology Technology

Virtual Exhibitions

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2023-12-15

In a recent presentation by Stefan Krmnicek, Kevin Körner, and Luca Dreiling, I learned about a team of the University of Tübingen (Germany) that developed a Unity plug-in for creating virtual exhibitions. The tool provides assets and options for creating a virtual exhibition very quickly and easily and in…

A guy holding a chromebook


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Archaeology

What is the state of a degree in Digital Archaeology?

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2023-12-08

At the beginning of this year, I published a chapter in a volume called “What is a Digital Archaeologist?” in which I described what – in my personal view – makes the digital in Digital Archaeology. Today, I read a introductory chapter by Karsten Lambers in a new publication…

Title image of the workshop "Digital Storytelling II" on green to blue gradient


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Archaeology

Report: Roundtable on Digital Storytelling

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2023-12-01

Last week I was in Berlin for a day in order to participate in a Round Table on Digital Storytelling in ancient studies. I was presenting myself, but also listened to other presentations on the topic. The presentations were really interesting, covering topics on museum studies, teaching, and human-centered…

A laboratory with a big table and two RTI domes on top, which look like a big and a small pizza oven.


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Meet and Greet: Testing RTI in Switzerland

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2023-11-24

So last week I made a trip to the University of Basel in Switzerland testing RTI. As part of a trilateral project called “Meet and Greet” I have a position for scanning various objects with a 3D scanner and our RTI domes. In Basel, I was a guest at…

A picture of the city of Darmstadt


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DiKopA: Our first network meeting in person

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2023-11-17

So I already reported on a project I am involved in called DiKopA. It is a German name that translates to “Digital competencies in Archaeology”. We are basically a group of lecturers and students that think about how to make teaching and learning in Archaeology easier with digital methods….

Portfolio page of the company Artefacts showing a cutout of a reconstruction of a Mesopotamian building decorated in detailed patterns of coloured stone-cones.


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15 years of Artefacts!

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2023-11-10

Wow! 15 years and two days ago I co-founded a visualisation company called Artefacts specialised in creating scientific archaeological 3D reconstructions and visualisations for research and science communication. 15 years! I still was a student back then and this company is still running and busy today! I think it…

Screenshot of the game "Along the Nile" where the protagonist is running through an Egyptian city.


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New batch of Archaeogames!

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2023-11-03

A year ago, I reported of an Archaeogaming course I have created. I also showed you the results (games) the students created. This year, I did the course again and we have again new Archaeogames that actually all look awesome! We cover underwater archaeology, excavation ethics, and even play…

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