Interesting paper from former @uclarchaeology.bsky.social PhD researcher Dr Tian Tian on histories of Egyptological knowledge production in China 👇
Opportunity to join our teaching team in Museum Studies. Full time, permanent contract - Lecturer (Teaching) www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
All eyes on her! Dismantling 'Egypt' in UK museums artuk.org/discover/sto...
Chapter 1 introduces the excellent work of our collaborators and reflects on how and why Med archaeology collections were formed in the region. I hope that this volume encourages more reflection on the value of these heritages in dialogue with the First Nation's cultures of their new homelands. 📜🏺🏛
We need to utterly transform how we protect our heritage: more funding for museums, more education and disrupting our equation of heritage with monetary value. This isn't a one off. From our fiekds to our museum cases, antiquities are seen as objects for personal acquisition and monetary gain.
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Come join me and the @uclarchaeology.bsky.social team! Teaching replacement post in Museum Studies, 1 year contract: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
“The last three to four months has been the biggest flood of antiquities trafficking I have ever seen, from any country, ever.”
://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/08/looted-from-syria-sold-on-facebook-antiquities-smuggling-surges-after-fall-of-assad?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
New exhibition now open @hornimanmuseum.bsky.social part of our @ukri.org AHRC project Mobilising Collections for Institutional Change
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SMA has responded to calls for changes to legislation and practice regarding human remains, by collaborating with several organisations to agree a joint statement on on the retention, display, and provision of access to human remains from British archaeological contexts. socmusarch.org.uk/news/
📚 I’m thrilled to share that “Researching a Rigged Game: Digital Approaches to Tracing the Illicit Trade in Cultural Objects”, edited by @dremilinesmith.bsky.social and myself, is now published and available as Open Access via @springernature.com.
🔗https://lnkd.in/gBCv2KDH
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
This exhibition at Horniman Museum calls for the reclamation of Egyptian artefacts, as well as our narrative.
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In Late Qing (1840–1912) antiquarianism, historical accounts and ancient scripts were prioritised over all else.
This extended to the study of other cultures, with rubbings of ancient Egyptian monuments providing a unique perspective on Egyptology 2/2
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Out now! A collaborative volume that explores provenance, pedagogy, participatory programming and ethics for managing ancient Mediterranean collections in this region by #museum experts and researchers. 🏺📜🖼🏛
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
Awful news from Wales, the St Fagan's Museum has been broken into and prehistoric goldwork has been taken. Its painful to think what objects might now be at risk. Thoughts with the museum team who must be devastated, all speed to the police and a curse on the crooks.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Dr Summer Rose Austin
Antiquity Journal
This volume brings together academics and museum professionals responsible for ancient Mediterranean collections across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand to
