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I’ve been invited to give a brown-bag talk in the Department of Anthropology this week talking about archaeology & serious games. Here is the talk’s description:
For years, researchers have discussed the educational potential of digital games. Most recently, this discussion has been framed using the term “serious games” – games whose primary purpose is not [...]
I just received word that Bruce Trigger, professor of anthropology at McGill, has passed away. I’m personally very saddened by this because his writings (and the very nature of his research) had such an impact on me as both an undergrad and a grad student. In an academic world where anthropologists and archaeologists [...]
For the most part, because of a whole host of factors, announcements of noteworthy Predynastic finds come from Upper Egypt. Contrary to this, the Polish mission in Lower Egypt has announced the discovery of a bunch of really interesting finds – all at Tell el-Farkha in the northern province of Dakahliya in the Delta. The [...]
There is no arguing that Egyptology, and by proxy Egyptian archaeology, like all scholarly approaches to understanding the human past, is a product of its historical and cultural context. What makes Egyptology interesting, compared to many other geographic areas, is the sheer depth of time associated with the discipline. When I say “discipline,” I don’t [...]
As an archaeologist (especially one who worked/works in Egypt), one of the most frequent questions I ever got was: "is there really anything left to find?" Well, file this under "there are more things that have yet to be found then there are things that have been found." In the most recent issue of the [...]
NOTE: I wrote this post about a month or so ago, and then saved it as a draft. In the chaos of the move, the new house, and the new department (not to mention that I didn’t hook up high speed at home until about a week ago), it got forgotten. So, here ya go…read, [...]
So, in the last two posts, I’ve gone into detail about the lineage of modern Atlantean mythology. So, how does this all tie into the recent report that Dr Rainer Kuehne of the University of Wuppertal believes he has found an archaeological site in southern Spain (courtesy of satellite imagery) that resembles Plato’s description of [...]
So, where were we? Ahh yes, Edgar Cayce….the waco of wacos.
After Donnelly, Easily one of the most influential figures in the pseudoscientific Atlantean movement is Edgar Cayce. Between 1904 and 1910, in a small town in Kentucky called Hopkinsville, Edgar Cayce, first demonstrated his so-called psychic powers. However, unbeknownst to him, his premonitions would [...]
FOUND: One lost city. Might compare to Plato’s description. Must be collected in person.
Recently, the BBC news reported that Dr Rainer Kuehne of the University of Wuppertal believes that satellite photos of southern Spain reveal features on the ground appearing to match descriptions made by Greek scholar Plato regarding the fabled utopia of [...]
