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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 2d

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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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 2d

Awful news from Wales, the St Fagan's Museum has been broken into and prehistoric goldwork has been taken. Its painful to think what objects might now be at risk. Thoughts with the museum team who must be devastated, all speed to the police and a curse on the crooks.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

St Fagans: Bronze Age gold jewellery stolen from musuem

Police are investigating a burglary at St Fagans museum in the early hours of Monday morning.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Alice Stevenson @alicestevenson.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

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Alice Stevenson @alicestevenson.bsky.social · Jun 25

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

Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · Jun 25

In Late Qing (1840–1912) antiquarianism, historical accounts and ancient scripts were prioritised over all else.

This extended to the study of other cultures, with rubbings of ancient Egyptian monuments providing a unique perspective on Egyptology 2/2

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Above: black-and-white photo of an ancient Egyptian stela.
Below: Chinese rubbing of the same stela.

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Alice Stevenson @alicestevenson.bsky.social · Jun 8

“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

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

www.theguardian.com

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Society For Museum Archaeology @socmusarch.bsky.social · May 22

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/

News | Society for Museum Archaeology

socmusarch.org.uk

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Alice Stevenson @alicestevenson.bsky.social · May 9

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

scenenow.com/ArtsAndCultu...

‘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.

scenenow.com

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Candace Richards @circa-candace.bsky.social · May 9

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. 📜🏺🏛

Candace Richards @circa-candace.bsky.social · May 8

Out now! A collaborative volume that explores provenance, pedagogy, participatory programming and ethics for managing ancient Mediterranean collections in this region by #museum experts and researchers. 🏺📜🖼🏛
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

Mediterranean Collections in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand | Pers

This volume brings together academics and museum professionals responsible for ancient Mediterranean collections across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand to

www.taylorfrancis.com

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Alice Stevenson @alicestevenson.bsky.social · Apr 28

Hi Cooper! From his half(?) brother Mog

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Summer Rose Austin @summeraustin.bsky.social · Mar 20

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

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.

hyperallergic.com

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Alice Stevenson @alicestevenson.bsky.social · Mar 9

Congratulations!

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Alice Stevenson @alicestevenson.bsky.social · Mar 1

Congratulations- looking forward to reading it!

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Alice Stevenson @alicestevenson.bsky.social · Feb 22

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

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Alice Stevenson @alicestevenson.bsky.social · Feb 13

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

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Alice Stevenson @alicestevenson.bsky.social · Feb 13

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

Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · Feb 12

When a #millennial curates an Egyptology exhibition 🤘

Huge congratulations to Ben Hinson & team on the incredible #MakingEgypt exhibition at the Young V&A. Go see it!

www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/...

#Egypt #Museums #London

A museum label about the Egyptian god Khepri entitled 'Keep rolling, rolling, rolling'

Mass display of modern shabti figures holding different signs

Modern large block imitating a block from the Great Pyramid

Cartoon of the Egyptian God Thoth as a sign reading hieroglyphs

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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · Feb 6

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/

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...

www.museoegizio.it

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Rick Herrera @herreramilhist.bsky.social · Jan 31

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
uclpress.co.uk/book/war-ess...

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 ...

uclpress.co.uk

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Alice Stevenson @alicestevenson.bsky.social · Jan 28

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...

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Alice Stevenson @alicestevenson.bsky.social · Jan 16

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.

UCL Press @uclpress.bsky.social · Jan 16

Congratulations to @alicestevenson.bsky.social ! Her #OpenAccess book Contemporary Art and the Display of Ancient Egypt published today. Read and download free at: ow.ly/Ciqp50U9bAH #AncientEgyptianArt #Curators

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...

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Alice Stevenson @alicestevenson.bsky.social · Jan 16

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

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...

uclpress.co.uk

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · Jan 14

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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Prof. Rhiannon Stevens @nannonstevens.bsky.social · Jan 13

Final call !! Apply for this funded PhD at University College London @UCLarchaeology.bsky.social on Establishing limits of Neanderthal presence in Britain.

Deadline 20th Jan 5pm Uk time

www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/est...

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Alice Stevenson @alicestevenson.bsky.social · Jan 15

Sadly this is exactly the same experience I’ve had as a journal editor….

Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · Jan 9

My very last issue (on ♿️) has now come out with BMJ Medical Humanities: I have stepped down from my role as Editor in Chief. There are a lot of factors—after 17 years editing two consecutive journals, it was time. But there’s more, and I feel we should talk about the climate of #academic publishing

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Rachel King @rachelking.bsky.social · Jan 13

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 >>