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Fizzy red wine (Bonarda) for our wedding anniversary. Quite fantastic.Boats on the saltmarsh.Van Gogh's famous Sunflowers, painted in Arles 1888. Although I'm less of a fan of his later work I do like this classic.Starry Night, Arles by Vincent van Gogh, painted 1888. This is a more typical van Gogh. I like it because this is what the night looks like without glasses or contact lenses.Carpenter's Yard and Laundry in the Hague by Vincent van Gogh. Painted 1882. Inspired by prints of London and Van Gogh's anxiety about poverty and urbanism.Renewing my acquaintance with EA47568 from Asyut Hogarth Tomb 46.Spotted this familiar silhouette on the Acanthus dining room.Autumnal M40A second #Egyptian execration text magically attacking Nubians, from the 6 Dynasty of the #OldKingdom.Top Posts & Pages
- Surveying in the Mansion of Gold; The Hatnub travertine (Egyptian Alabaster) quarries near Minya
- Ditch that total station and grab your tablet? ArcGIS Collector and QGIS QField mobile-GIS survey apps reviewed.
- Fakes and conspiracy theories: A cautionary tale for users of facebook archaeology pages.
- The myths about illegal antiquities and why you should never buy them!
- Artefacts from the Anglo-Saxon burial at Prittlewell exhibited in Southend Museum.
- Essex's Tutankhamun? Learning from seemingly incongruous comparisons.
- Provenance, fakes, uncertainty and ethics: The problems with legally purchased antiquities.
Blogs I follow
- geipepthode1979's Blog
- Trekkie Feminist
- Southend Museums
- Variant Readings
- Garstang Museum of Archaeology
- Manchester Ancient Egypt Society
- BM International Training Programme
- The History of Egypt Podcast
- Creative Researchers
- The Thesis Whisperer
- Papyrus Stories
- The Research Whisperer
- Amarna Anniversary
- The Bioarchaeology of Childhood | Sian Halcrow
- Free and Open Source GIS Ramblings
- The History of Byzantium
- Doug's Archaeology
- Archaeological Networks
- University of Cambridge Museums
- Chris Naunton
- Geoninja Info
- Nicky van de Beek
- Heritage for Transformation
- markersofauthenticity.wordpress.com/
- Byzantine Blog
- badarchaeology.wordpress.com/
- It's All Greek To Me
- Gates of Nineveh: An Experiment in Blogging Assyriology
- South Asasif Conservation Project
- Per Storemyr Archaeology & Conservation
- The Punching Bag
- Egyptians
- Kristian Strutt
- Revealing Our History
- Amun-Ra Egyptology Blog
- imbaba
- minufiyeh
- Luxor Times
- Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology – UCL Culture Blog
- Tetisheri - Blog
- AMNTE NOFRE (Amentet Neferet)
- Ancient Egyptian Cobra Project
- Em Hotep!
- The Tell Basta Project
- The Egyptiana Emporium
- Egyptology News Network
- Dayr al-Barshā Project
- The Sirius Project
- iMalqata – A Joint Expedition
- Ancient Egypt Research Associates
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Tag Archives: Looting
Provenance, fakes, uncertainty and ethics: The problems with legally purchased antiquities.
My recent visit to the Barcelona Egyptian Museum revealed some fantastic artefacts, but also raised unsettling questions about forgeries, provenance and the ethics of presenting recently purchased antiquities in museums. Continue reading
Posted in Protection and destruction
Tagged Antiquities, Egypt, forgeries, Looting, Museums
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Global Xplorer: Satellite remote sensing, looting and crowd-sourcing.
A new platform can make you a ‘Space Archaeologist’, but will it help looters too? Continue reading
Posted in Remote sensing
Tagged Antiquities, crowd-sourcing, Egypt, Looting, Remote sensing, Satellite
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Does the Neighbourhood Planning and Infrastructure Bill matter for archaeology outside the UK?
Changes to UK legislation will have a negative effect on attitudes to and protection of archaeology overseas? Continue reading
Posted in Protection and destruction
Tagged Antiquities, Archaeology and Egyptology, Egyptology, Legislation, Looting, NPIB, Planning
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