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Tagged: Archaeology

Portrait of Wendy Doyon.

“I’m fascinated by language in all its facets” – 5in10 with Wendy Doyon

Wendy Doyon is a historian of modern Egypt and Egyptology. She received her PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania in 2021 and is currently revising her dissertation for a book entitled Empire of Dust: State, Labor, and Archaeology in Nineteenth-century Egypt. She was a CAORC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the American Research Center in Egypt 2022–2024, and she co-directs the Arabic Excavation Archive from Quft project at Harvard University. Her research focuses primarily on French, English, and Arabic sources in archaeological archives from Egypt and Sudan and she writes on the history of archaeology from both Egyptian and multicultural/global perspectives. In the academic year 2024/25, she is a EUME Fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien.

The World Historical Gazetteer: A Digital Humanities Interface for Transregional Research

By Susan Grunewald, Ruth Mostern, and Karl Grossner. As digital projects become increasingly popular for the humanities, linked open data (LOD) is a means to combine the efforts of many individual researchers and research teams to enable truly transregional research.

Archaeology in Algeria: Challenges of Multidisciplinary Research and the Identity Question

By Nadia Bahra (Archaeology, University of Constantine, Algeria). The worrying condition of archaeological sites and monuments and the alarm bells about the looting and destruction of antiquities are periodically reported on by Algerian media and social media outlets.

علم الآثار في الجزائر: بين تحدّيات البحث المتعدّد والعابر للتخصّصات ومسألة الهوية

نادية باهرة (علم الآثار، جامعة قسنطينة، الجزائر). تشهد الساحة الإعلامية الجزائرية وصفحات التواصل الاجتماعي في الجزائر من حينٍ لآخر منشورات عن الوضع المقلق الذي آلت إليه المعالم والمواقع الأثرية، وضرورة دق ناقوس الخطر لما تتعرض له الآثار من نهبٍ أو تخريب. وتلقى هذه النشرات عادةً تفاعلًا وتعاطفًا من جماهير المهتمين بالآثار، كما تتبعها نشرات المؤسسات المكلّفة بالآثار باتخاذ تدابير عاجلة وإيفاد بعثةٍ مختصّة لإنقاذ ما يمكن إنقاذه.

The Historical Junkyards of Cairo

By Shehab Ismail. The city of Cairo was surrounded by human-made mounds composed of rubbish and debris that had been piling up on the same spots for centuries. This blog post narrates how the author encountered the rubbish mounds during his research on the history of sanitation in Cairo. It explores two materials that were commonly found in the city’s dumpsters: archeological finds and organic fertilizers.