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New Blog Post from Gabriel McKee and the ISAW library: FROM PROTECTIVE COLOPHONS TO RFID TAGS: A BRIEF HISTORY OF LIBRARY SECURITY. isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog... #isawnyulib #isawnyu #nyu #libraries #ancientbooks @isawnyu.bsky.social @nyulibraries.bsky.social
Hey NYC: #ISAWNYU leadership has made the decision to close the galleries on Sunday in anticipation of bad weather, so if you were planning on visiting the "Rodin's Egypt" exhibition, you'll want to do that tomorrow (Saturday) or wait until the galleries reopen on Wednesday. cc @isawnyu.bsky.social
Sandstone block with the crowned cat god sekhmet looking left. Hieroglyphs in the upper left corner
Bust of a woman looking down from the ceiling of tomb of Petosiris at El Muzzawaka
Landscape of Egyptian desert with a partially restored pyramid with steep sides centered
Undeclared mudbrick minaret reaching to the a cloudless blue sky
We took #washu students on a field trip yesterday to W #dalhlaoasis to see the temple of Deir el Hagar, the tombs of El Muzzawaka, the site and pyramid of Amheida, and medieval and Ottoman mudbrick city of el Qasr. #amheida2026 #isawnyu
Long table in a room with shelves on either side partially filled with books
Book cover O.Trim. volume 3 in black and red with text on it, and an image of a fragmentary, rubricated inscription in Greek.
Three people sitting around a table on a roof with an escarpment in the background
The #isawnyu branch here at the #nyu excavation facility in the #dakhlaoasis is ready! We also made sure to add a copy of Amheida VIII, O.Trim. 3. Thank you to #washuclassics and #washuarthistory students Aaron Held, Claire Lyman, and Mo Stein for all the help! #nyuisawlib #amheida2026 #archaeology
Over on the blog of the #ISAWNYU Library (@isawlibrary.bsky.social), Mina Turunc, Carl Walsh and Gabriel Mckee write about "Spotlighting Islamic Spain Through NYU's Library Collections":
isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog...
Attending a really interesting presentation by Federico Di Pasqua on using #generativeAI, #LLM, and #RAG to query the data and scholarship that #ISAWnyu creates. Are we ready for the ISAW AI Librarian? #libraries #ISAWlibrary
The ISAW Library is back, baby! Gone are the days of our wandering in the social media wilderness! We are happy to join the Bluesky community. Posts will be by David Ratzan, Gabriel Mckee and Patrick Burns @diyclassics.bsky.social #isawnyu #libraries #nyu
I see that the Amheida excavations from #ISAWNYU are featured in an article in today's New York Times:
Nazaryan, Alexander. “Church in Egyptian Desert Reveals Early Christian Burial Practices.” The New York Times, November 8, 2024, sec. Science. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/08/s....
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