How many secrets are still hidden in Tutankhamun's tomb? 100 years after the discovery, the exhibition "#Tutankhamun, his tomb, and his treasures" in #Brussels provides an answer. Great exhibition: I admired "wonderful things" and felt Carter's enthusiasm. Recommended!!

Had a lot of fun in the first week of August! Hope it comes back next year! Helping students in Assyriology use digital tools is a great idea! It is what we also want to do in AssyrUGent 😃

Last weekend my sister, who has a cuneiform tattoo with my brother's name, was approached by someone from Iraq in an Irish pub in Copenhagen. He was so excited about the tattoo! It's amazing to spread the knowledge of West Asia's impressive cultural history!

Proud to present our research at Crossroads IV in Prague! Akkadicat Anne Goddeeris

We did it! AssyrUGent teambuilding at Kraakfabriek escape rooms! Akkadicat Anne Goddeeris Mirko Surdi Gustav Ryberg Smidt

Beautiful tablets made by the students in the writing on clay workshop!! Well done! ⁦Akkadicat⁩ ⁦Anne Goddeeris⁩

We have reached more than 2000 downloads of our open-access Cuneiform Inscriptions Geographical Site Index (CIGS)! 🎉 You can access it here in a range of formats: zenodo.org/record/5642899… #opendata #cuneiform

#Cuneur started by Timo Homburg @i3mainz for internal use to annotate #cuneiform tablets using #Annotorious by 𝐠𝒆𝚘 has found its first international users. The Cune-#IIIF-orm project UGent started their own instance. A demonstrator can be found here: fcgl.gitlab.io/annotator-show…

Assyriology student with an interest in Digital Humanities? Join us in Copenhagen for the 3rd Digital Applications in Assyriology Nordic Summer School, 12–16 August 2024. Application deadline: 31 March! More info here: ccrs.ku.dk/education/amen…

Happy to see the newest episode of @wedge_pod is out! And even with my name on it and I'm happy it is next to Seraina Nett and @RuneIsForR. Fun experience! wedgepod.org/episode-list/

Hear more about the results of our project Geomapping Landscapes of Writing in the latest episode of Thin End of the Wedge with @RuneIsForR, Gustav Ryberg Smidt, and myself. Thank you, Jon and Ellie, for the lovely conversation! buzzsprout.com/1338718/150421…

Had a wonderful week at the @UCPH_ANE and ANEE Helsinki workshop. Very thankful for the teaching of Seraina Nett Gustav Ryberg Smidt Saana Svärd and others. And I got to meet Troels Pank Arbøll in person too! Many thanks to team and colleagues!

Just published! Have you ever examined fiber impressions from a stylus inside the wedge of a cuneiform tablet? Our study shows how these impressions might serve as unique identifiers, similar to fingerprints, to link fragments written with the same stylus: doi.org/10.3280/oa-118…

What do a third-generation particle accelerator and third-millennium BCE salt-covered cuneiform tablets have in common? 👀Our article published today with Springer Nature in Nature - Scientific Reports reveals more, check it out: rdcu.be/d7xhc Akkadicat AssyrUGent

Scholars of ancient societies interested in Digital and Computational Humanities, join us in Ghent, September 15-18, for the Bytes and Bygones conference (bab.ugent.be/calls/). Abstract deadline: March 21.