Canadian Egyptologist - Rexine Hummel
Part VIII - Rexine’s Colleagues
Photo: Rexine and Shakira
The Train to Petra
Guest post by Caroline Puzinas, who visited Petra in the summer of 2001.
Canadian Egyptologist - Valérie Angenot
Photo: Valérie Angenot and a statue of Akhenaten, National Museum of Alexandria
Canadian Egyptologist - Rexine Hummel
Part VII - Rexine’s Favourite Pot
Photo: image of the unique vessel from Tausret Temple (2015)
Canadian Egyptologist - Rexine Hummel
Part VI - People and Critters on Site
Photo: A portion of one of Rexine’s handwritten letters from Mendes
Today is Rexine’s 88th birthday - let’s all wish her an amazing day! 🎂
Nigel J. Hetherington - Past Preservers and Beyond
Nigel J Hetherington - founder of Past Preservers
Canadian Egyptologist - Rexine Hummel
Part V - People Who Helped Rexine as a Ceramicist
Photo: Rexine mending a jar
Canadian Egyptologist - Rexine Hummel
Part IV - Sinai Bedouin Meal
Photo: Rexine and Patrick being served tea after the meal
A Sand County Review
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There - by Aldo Leopold (1949)
For the Love of Greece💙
I have visited Greece 5 times since 1992, and the last time was a decade ago (2014). Following is my description of this latest excursion.
Photo: Agios Ioannis Chapel, Skopelos
Canadian Egyptologist - Rexine Hummel
Part III - Sinai
Photo: Rexine at the Temple of Hathor, Serabit el-Khadim (DD, 2004)
Canadian Egyptologist - Rexine Hummel
Rexine Hummel on her first dig in East Karnak in 1976.
Canadian Egyptologist - Rexine Hummel
Rexine Hummel (right) is an amazing Canadian archaeologist and ceramicist who specializes in Ancient Egypt. She is the focus of a series of posts that I am writing on Canadian female Egyptologists!
Review: Women in the Valley of the Kings
Women in the Valley of the Kings - by Kathleen Sheppard (2024)
Immersive travel writing
Photo: An inscribed block from Karnak Temple (2018)
Some of my favourite passages about travel.