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/...

📚 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

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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All eyes on her! Dismantling 'Egypt' in UK museums artuk.org/discover/sto...

Interesting paper from former @uclarchaeology.bsky.social PhD researcher Dr Tian Tian on histories of Egyptological knowledge production in China 👇

Looted from Syria, sold on Facebook: antiquities smuggling surges after fall of Assad Collapse of once-feared security apparatus, coupled with widespread poverty, has triggered a gold rush

“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

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/

‘All Eyes on Her!’: Reclaiming Egyptian Womanhood in This London Show This exhibition at Horniman Museum calls for the reclamation of Egyptian artefacts, as well as our narrative.

New exhibition now open @hornimanmuseum.bsky.social part of our @ukri.org AHRC project Mobilising Collections for Institutional Change

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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. 📜🏺🏛

Hi Cooper! From his half(?) brother Mog

Champagne, Caviar, and Provenance Gaps at TEFAF Maastricht Despite efforts to improve vetting procedures, the persistence of vague ownership points to an industry still grappling with its past.

@dremilinesmith.bsky.social and I give some of our thoughts on the provenance of lots offered at TEFAF this year hyperallergic.com/997650/champ...

Congratulations!

Congratulations- looking forward to reading it!

Sorry to miss it all on the last day 🤢 but great to catch up!

And delighted to finally meet in person Ahmed Raafat showcasing Elsoba & Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage project collaboration🤩 Young V&A

And to his co-curator, @uclarchaeology.bsky.social museum studies graduate Trish Robert’s 👏🏻 well done both!

Ali Cherri and Sara Sallam: The First Contemporary Artists at the Museo Egizio In light of its reflection on its role as a contemporary archaeological museum, the Museo Egizio, on the occasion of...

The Museo Egizio (Egyptian Museum) in Turin has some really interesting collaborations with contemporary artists going on right now🏺https://www.museoegizio.it/en/explore/news/10584/

War Essays In this fascinating book, Zainab Bahrani charts the devastation, cultural cleansing and targeted erasure of Iraq’s past, and argues that the topics of archaeology, history and memory must be analysed ...

UCL Press has just released War Essays, by Zainab Bahrani, the Edith Porada Professor and Chair of the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. It's open access, so download away!
@smh-historians.bsky.social
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Not just an open access book from @uclpress.bsky.social but also a lovely artefact! Got the physical copy today - colour pictures throughout & all. uclpress.co.uk/book/contemp...

In which I question the oft-repeated claim that artistic intervention puts the past and present into dialogue. But which pasts? To what ends? Based on interviews with curators & artists, and reflections on not the end product but the process.

Contemporary Art and the Display of Ancient Egypt Artistic interventions are now a popular means of delivering fresh perspectives on museum displays, including in galleries devoted to ancient Egypt. Installations are commonly said to put the past and...

Publication day 🥳 one outcome from my @britishacademy.bsky.social mid-career Fellowship now OA & free to download 👇. uclpress.co.uk/book/contemp...

Still time to apply. Join @nannonstevens.bsky.social and myself, addressing the record of the last Neanderthals in Britain.
Be part of a new era of research, testing assumptions and setting out a new agenda for discovery.
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Sadly this is exactly the same experience I’ve had as a journal editor….

The Neoliberalisation of Heritage in Africa Cambridge Core - Archaeology: General Interest - The Neoliberalisation of Heritage in Africa

New publication out today! 🏺🗃️
This is my argument for an economic history of heritage-making in African states over the past 40 years, and how this speaks to themes like sovereignty, commodification of tradition, and (of course) the idea of usable pasts >>

Buying Power: British Archaeology and the Antiquities Market in Egypt and Sudan 1880 - 1939 | National Museums Scotland This research project will investigate how archaeologists involved in British-led excavations in Egypt and Sudan engaged with the antiquities market betwee

@danpotteregypt.bsky.social on archaeologists as dealers www.nms.ac.uk/collections/...

Making the Museum

@coloursburntin.bsky.social making the museum www.prm.ox.ac.uk/making-museum and…

Thanks @coloursburntin.bsky.social for a great session. Lots of great projects, from @lisarandisi.bsky.social archaeological ephemera www.ucl.ac.uk/culture/proj... between object & archive, to

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One day to go until @tag45.bsky.social
and our session 'Excavating the Collection'! Friday 13th starting at 14:00! Who's speaking you ask? More details below 👇

Poster for the conference session 'Excavation the Collection: New Evolutions in Museum Archaeology'. The poster is in black and white. In the centre is a historic photograph of the Pitt Rivers Museum court (taken about 1900). The photograph shows crowded glass display cases. At the top, the title is displayed in bold font, while at the bottom the details of the session organiser (Beth Hodgett) and Discussant (Alice Stevenson) are in smaller block capitals.

Counting down to @tag45.bsky.social ! I'm running the session 'Excavating the Collection: New Evolutions in the Archaeology of Museum Collections' this Friday 13th 14:00-16:30, and am so excited to be joined by
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as discussant! For more info 👇