A kohl flask from Yemen
A collection is never complete. One can always collect more objects and there is always one more variation that isn’t part of the...
Tell el Amarna 2017
Last month I spent in Egypt, working on The Amarna Project. This archaeological excavation is uncovering a cemetery from the site Tell...
Exhibition on desert silver in Bergen op Zoom (NL)
On the 20th of May 2017 an exhibition on the use of silver through the ages will open at the museum De Markiezenhof in Bergen op Zoom, in...
Aluminium in jewelry
In traditional jewelry, silver was most commonly used, and in modern Egyptian jewelry gold is used most often. However, other metals also...
The qabqab
When Napoleon visited Egypt his scientists counted more than fifty bathhouses in Cairo. By the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in...
Enduring Beliefs in Perugia
This summer we visited the city of Perugia (Italy) and the fantastic exhibit Enduring Beliefs in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale...
the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford
The Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford is a real treat for anyone interested in all sorts of wearable stuff. The museum was founded in 1884...
