Author: hannahpethen

Having completed my PhD in archaeology at the University of Liverpool, I am now a freelance archaeologists working with landscape and topographic survey and satellite imagery. I specialise in GIS, GPS, desk-based assessment and landscape projects and have a particular interest in Egyptian archaeology.

The myths about illegal antiquities and why you should never buy them!

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Purchasers of black market artefacts promulgate many myths to justify their actions, but there is a dark reality behind them.

The Egyptian collection in the Museo Nacional des Belles Artes, Havana Cuba.

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A review of the fantastic and rarely explored Egyptian collection in Havana.

Will a computer take my job?: Archaeology and technological development?

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Can archaeologists be replaced by machines? As technology develops where does that leave the human?

Global Xplorer: Satellite remote sensing, looting and crowd-sourcing.

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A new platform can make you a 'Space Archaeologist', but will it help looters too?

A gneiss sphinx: Is the Hazor sphinx made from Gebel el-Asr gneiss?

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Does the Hazor Egyptian sphinx come from the southern Egyptian Gebel el-Asr quarries?

Animal Mummies at the World Museum, Liverpool

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A great exhibition of Egyptian animal mummies is on at the World Museum, Liverpool.

Undercurrents: Clichés and scientific archaeology in Egyptian foreign relations

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How far have we internalised ancient mores, and how does science and archaeology challenge those clichés?

Ancient Ottoman and Byzantine shipwrecks discovered in pristine condition in Black Sea — Byzantine Blog

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https://www.youtube.com/embed/NZ8NKQuUx0Y?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent The Black Sea Maritime Archaeology Project has been on a mission to map out the floor of the Black Sea. The study was geared towards understanding how quickly sea levels rose at the end of the last Ice Age, some 20,000 years ago. So it was to the researchers’ surprise when they stumbled upon …

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Tutankhamun, Nefertiti and all that jazz: What have we learned?

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Almost a year since the media discovered Reeves' theory that Tutankhamun's tomb contained Nefertiti, what have we learned?

Review of the British Museum’s Sunken Cities Exhibition

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A great exhibition, thoroughly enjoyable. Both artistic and informative.