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Michelle L.
TheKindAcademic
As an Egyptology graduate myself, 1/ where are the gloves?As a human being, 1/ where is your mask? I appreciate the new discovery but for some reason the gathering of
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Mona Eltahawy
monaeltahawy
I’ve reported and blocked that bot/troll fuckery. And here’s another picture because I’m still excited with my buzzcut! @rerutled Also, you know how much Sekhmet means to me. She’s that
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Ed Scrivens
ed_scrivens
A thread on #Egyptology and interdisciplinarity, or: Why #theory is too western, how Egyptologists can help, and why everyone needs to #decolonise.#academicchat #academictwitter Egyptologists and other ancient world folks will
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Dr Margaret Maitland
eloquentpeasant
Important critique by @photograph_tut of yet another in a long-line of admiring histories of Egyptology’s “golden age” (aka colonial era), improving on the book with a miniature history that masterfully
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Sarah DEMOCRACY IS BACK Parcak
indyfromspace
As much as I love archaeology and Egyptology, we have to acknowledge-esp now- their deeply racist, colonialist, and nationalist roots- and ongoing practices. It is a field that has caused
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👻 The Curse of Victorian Orientalist Bullshit 👻
Rudjedet
Message for that part of The Internet that's lambasting "white people" for opening the 50-odd coffins found at Saqqara. Now, I would never deny the colonialist heritage of egyptology nor
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Bet Hucks
RomanAegyptiaca
Tweets from @ChrisNaunton’s #PeopleAtAmarna Zoom lecture courtesy of @TheEES: a thread! He covered how we got to know Amarna from its foundations through early EEF/EES excavations (highly suggest joining his
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Pyramids & Progress
Egyptology_PP
On this #internationalwomensday, we would like to put a spotlight on one of the few female Egyptologists in the early history of Belgian Egyptology: Marcelle Werbrouck. #pyramidsandprogress #IWD2020 #trowelblazers
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Drebonacci
Drestradamus
Mathematical Encodings In The Great Pyramid Alternative Egyptology suspects that the design of the Great Pyramid is based on knowledge of Earth's dimensions and precession. It is believed
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Manchester Museum
McrMuseum
Connection & inspiration is needed during challenging times like this. We've uploaded our digital content onto a mobile site so you can explore the museum in your home We hope
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Iron Spike
Iron_Spike
I almost didn’t wear my new cape to Highgate Cemetery today, but then I remembered I love it and also I don’t give a shit what anybody thinks. By the
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Seamus Blackley
SeamusBlackley
Today I achieved* something that I’ve been trying to do for a year. The slice of bread here was made with leavening cultures sampled from ancient Egyptian baking vessels, using
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Father Smashmas
FSmashmas
alright, so the recent #archaeology news of an Egyptian sarcophagus being opened has shown me how few folks understand the difference between an archaeologist and a looter, so lemme talk
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Carly Silver
CarlyASilver
Thrilled to tune into this lecture @Harvard lecture on Egypt and Nubia as African civilizations and historic whitewashing in racist approaches to Egypt Herodotus/Hecateus noted how geography (Nile, desert) individuated
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Fergus Butler-Gallie
_F_B_G_
Right as per this- I’m about to start watching Carry On Cleo, a take on Anthony and Cleopatra that makes Shakespeare’s look like a masterclass in Egyptology.https://twitter.com/_f_b_g_/status/1247444598219210752 Once again I
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jeneice
qjeneice
@MishelleO1974Barak Obama and the pale horsehttps://youtu.be/56hGgHdSWhE https://drmsh.com/akhenatens-mummy-identified-via-dna-testing/Akhenten is reptilian dna Akhenaten was known as the pharaoh that introduced the ideas of worshipping only on
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