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Challenging Assumptions, Exploring Approaches to Ancient Egypt Society-- a retrospective
Kara reunites with co-editors Dani Candelora and Nadia Ben Marzouk (and contributor Jordan) to look back on their Routledge volume, Ancient Egyptian Society: Challenging Assumptions, Exploring Approaches, built around “people, power, and pl...
Gravestones in England and What Happened to the Women
I drove through England September of 2025, starting in Oxford where I attended a workshop on reuse and heading up to Durham to meet with a colleague. The trip ended with the all-liquids-are-evil hellhole and we-want-you-to-take-off-your-sho...
The Tomb Behind Tutankhamun’s Tomb
I’ve been on record about the tomb behind Tutankhamun’s for awhile, such as when Nick Reeves first showed me the underlying cartouches beneath Ay’s name on the north wall of KV62, and I said, in print, that I was on board.1 Longer than that...
The Vainest Man in Deir el-Medina
Enter Qenhirkhopshef, Chief Scribe of Deir el-Medina. As promised, we are doing a deep dive into this gentleman, or as we will soon find out— chief scoundrel!
This is a follow-up post to one from April. If you haven’t read that one yet, pl...
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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.
Egyptology PhD from UCLA, crazy cat lady and lover of good food and travel
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.
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