Photo of the book "Colonising Egypt" by Timothy Mitchell. Background by Jon Moore on Unsplash


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Book Review: Colonising Egypt by T. Mitchell

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2023-01-06

After my PhD, I stopped reading for a while until I remembered, that reading is something good! So I grabbed a book that I always wanted to read and it was a good one. I wish I had read it earlier. Colonising Egypt for the first time really explained…

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My Top 5 books of 2022

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2022-12-30

What a year again! As I did last year, I wanted to dedicate the last post of the year to the top 5 books of 2022 I read. They are not necessarily from 2022, but I read them in 2022. I did some reviews of them this year, but not for…

Screenshot of the game "Excavation Manager 2022"


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Creating a course Pt.4: The final games!

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2022-12-23

I already wrote about creating a course Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 and this is my final Part 4. In my interdisciplinary course, different student groups did create an Archaeogame. I taught the course together with my colleague from Digital Humanities. Today, we finally release all the games and you can…

Titlescreen of the Netflix series "Ancient Apocalypse"


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OMG: Graham Hancock Ancient Apocalypse

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2022-12-16

Ok people, where to start? It is always difficult to get down the rabbit hole that is Pseudo-Archaeology, but let’s have a discussion. I watched, like many others, Graham Hancocks Ancient Apocalypse on Netflix and as an archaeologist, am of course outraged what he proposes, how he discredits us,…

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Indiana Jones 5: The first trailer

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2022-12-09

This week, the first trailer to Indiana Jones 5: The Dial of Destiny dropped and I have analysed trailers in the past, so why not give this a try? There are some interesting details hidden, maybe I found some that you didn’t hear about? We are in any case…

Reconstruction drawing of Nimroud


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My PhD: From Layard to Lara Croft

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2022-12-02

I published my PhD “From Layard to Lara Croft”, which feels unreal somehow, but there it is, my own work. 275 pages, 50 plates, 3 years of work. Obviously, I am very happy about this, as the process of publishing took quiet a while. Not to speak of the…

A field of plants with a shield and the number 100. Photo by Marcel Eberle on Unsplash


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100 posts!

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2022-11-25

This is my 100st post, which means that I can call myself a blogger since 100 weeks! Except I do not call myself a blogger really, I call myself an archaeologist that blogs. This started out as an experiment, but over time developed into a habit. Time to have…

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My trip to the British Museum in London

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2022-11-18

So last weekend I went to the British Museum in London for work. Unfortunately, due to some circumstances, I couldn’t proceed as planned and have to return in January. But on the other hand, I had some time to have a look at a couple of museums while I…

The skeleton of a Mammoth in a glas display. Photo by John Benitez on Unsplash.


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Converting to Mastodon: A much needed guide

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2022-11-11

So recent events once more triggered a mass exodus… No well, let’s call it a movement from Twitter to Mastodon. In this comprehensive article, I want to talk about some things I have learned using Mastodon and why I like it so much. The only thing missing is people,…

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A workshop about Virtual Reality

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2022-11-04

Last weekend, I spent my time in a little German town called Weiden in Bavaria. I participated in an interdisciplinary workshop on Virtual Reality and the potential to use it to talk about the past. Little did I know, that I was the only archaeologist there in a room…

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