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Join Kara, Jordan, and Amber for a conversation with our supporters about the women of ancient Egypt. Specifically, this session will focus on Nefertiti a...
Art in Motion, a Social Tool of Power and Resistance
Kara and Amber host a special episode with Art historian and Egyptologist Alisée Devillers to spotlight their MDPI Arts special issue “Art in Motion,” which treats Egyptian art as a verb—something commissioned, negotiated, and used to make...
Art in Motion: Making the Edited Volume
I sat down with Alisée Devillers this past month to record a new episode of Afterlives of Ancient Egypt, going back over the three years we spent putting together Ancient Egyptian Art Studies: Art in Motion, a Social Tool of Power and Resis...
Crafted to Last
In todays episode, we welcome wood-and-coffin specialist Carrie Arbuckle McLeod for a deep dive into why ancient Egyptian coffins are basically time capsules: tiny wood samples reveal trade and value, tool marks preserve the hands-on action...
Anatomy of the Ancient Egyptian Soul: The Akh
Not everyone gets to become effective. Not everyone gets to matter after they’re gone. Not everyone becomes a saint. Your Ka, your Ba, your Ren — those showed up the moment you were born, automatic, no work required, the way your name did....
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Professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture at UCLA specializing in craft production, coffin studies, economies in the ancient world, and systems of power. The views expressed here are my own.
Director for a production company of expert ancient history consultants with an M.A. in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (UCLA). Previously worked in museum administration and education at LACMA, the Getty Villa, and Art Muse Los Angeles.
Egyptology PhD from UCLA, crazy cat lady and lover of good food and travel
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