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Building Tutankhamun's Digital Afterlife

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Kara and Jordan welcome Griffith Institute staff Daniela Rosenow and Lara Bampfield to discuss the new Tutankhamun Spatial Archive, a searchable, metadata-driven platform that reconnects Carter’s excavation records to the tomb...

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The Hidden and the Formalized: Female Queerness in Ancient Egypt

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Hatshepsut's Revenge

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Ancient/Now is going live Saturday @ 12pm PST!

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Is everything you know about mummies wrong?

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  • Kara Cooney

    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.

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    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.

  • Jordan Galczynski

    PhD candidate of Egyptology @UCLA, crazy cat lady and lover of good food and travel

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