@urosmatic
Egyptologist (PhD) archaeologist Senior fellow, College for Social Sciences and Humanities, University Alliance Ruhr, Essen Lecturer at University of Graz Winner of Harrassowitz Philippika (2018) and Austrian Academy of Sciences (2020) Prizes
Last summer I recorded a podcast episode with @unterirdisch.bsky.social during my fellowship at the @college-uaruhr.bsky.social
We discussed #masculinities #violence and #warfare in #ancientEgypt
The recording is in German and you can listen to it on #Spotify!
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The covered themes are outsourced precarity, long term effect of war, fate of the elderly, perspectives of the defeated, critique of written sources based narratives privileging victor’s perspectives, postwar disturbances and economics, war profiteering and battle aftermaths.
Chapters by Theresa Crespo, Henriette Hafsaas, Chris Langer, Anton Baryshnikov, Vlach Marek and Balázs Komoróczy, Ivan Radman, Ivan Drnic, Vladimir Mihajlovic, Marko Jankovic, Dimitrije Markovic, Haggai Olshanetsky and Lev Cosijns, Bo Jensen, Erge Butun and many others.
It includes a lengthy introduction through a relational perspective (#assemblagetheory #actornetworktheory) and a number of chapters on aftermath of war in prehistoric Iberia, ancient Egypt and Nubia, Roman provinces, late antique eastern Mediterranean, Viking Europe, and Medieval Anatolia.
In just two months our volume “Aftermath of War in Ancient Societies” is coming out with @oxbowbooks.bsky.social
You can pre-order it now with a discount!
Very cool looking CFP for a special issue of Animal History on the intersection between African Studies and Animal Studies:
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The research was supported by @college-uaruhr.bsky.social in spring-summer 2025.
The lecture is in German 🇩🇪 as well as the discussion at the end.
📖 The monograph in English is planned for 2027.
Thrilled that the recording 🎥 of my lecture 'Archäologie der Angst´ 😱 is now online on the website of the University of Zurich and their YouTube channel
🙏 Many thanks to Zurich Center for the Study of Antiquity for hosting this lecture.
#archaeology #fear
youtu.be/EABDmK2wy1Q
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Hey #classics scholars! 👋🏺🏛️
My fellow Classical Review editors and I recently wrote this blog post on how to write review articles and profiles 👇
👉 If you are interested in writing one do get in touch!
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#publishing #academia #classics #archaeology #ancienthistory
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Our @universitypress.cambridge.org book "Senses, Cognition and Ritual Experience in the Roman World" is #OPENACCESS !
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#archaeology #sensoryarchaeology #senses #cognition #cognitivescienceofreligion #ritual #religion #classics #ancienthistory #romanhistory
📖 Follow this page for two upcoming publications, a monograph on archaeology of fear in Ancient Egyptian palaces and the proceedings of the workshop which will be expended to include additional research 🔬
📽️ We now have the recordings of the lectures delivered at our May workshop uploaded!
🎄if you missed the conference consider this our Holiday present to you.
Many thanks to College for Social Sciences and Humanities | UA Ruhr for preparing these videos!
#archaeology #ancientegypt #multisensory
✨ La traduction anglaise de notre « Introduction à l’archéologie du genre » vient d’être publiée chez BAR !
Nous sommes particulièrement honorées de la préface de Rachel Pope 😊
Un grand merci à notre éditrice Jacqueline Senior et à son équipe !
👉 www.barpublishing.com/book/an-intr...
🙏 I am grateful to all my colleagues at the museum, especially Carla, Lukas, Julia and Mirko!
🇩🇪 The texts are in German and several publications are planned for next year. 🇦🇹 They are sponsored by Bundesministerium für Wohnen, Kunst, Kultur, Medien und Sport (BMWKMS) of Austria.
I researched the archive of the museum including the legacy of Alois Negrelli and the diary of Carl Junker together with, drawings and postcards from cities along the #SuezCanal.
My focus was on the #subaltern and the way #historians and #museum #exhibitions narrate the history of the Suez Canal construction.
🇪🇬 Under [Erinnerungs]Kulturen you can read all about this and see the interview with Mohamed Hassan whom I met in Port Said in summer 2024.
🤓 Two years ago I embarked on a research completely out of my comfort zone.
💡 Vienna Museum of Science and Technology welcomed me as a Scholar in Residence to work on their project on Colonial Infrastructures.
✅ We have now almost finalised our online exhibition.
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Thanks Briana!
💡 An additinal evening lecture on multisensory approaches to ancient Egyptian battles and their representations is on the 4th December (Thursday). I will present some of my earlier work on soundscapes of war and my ongoing work on sights 👀 and smells 👃
🤓 I am looking forward to my excercise lecture on multisensory approach to fear in New Kingdom Egyptian palaces with the students on 3rd December (Wednesday). The lecture is based on the results of my research at College for Social Sciences and Humanities | UA Ruhr this year
📖 Next week I will be a guest in Berlin at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social in the seminar ''Sense and Sensibility: The Archaeology of Sensory Experience and Perception'' organized as a joint effort between FU Berlin and University of Copenhagen and ran by professors Henny Piezonka and Elisa Roßberger
Drawing on a wide range of evidence from textual sources, visual representations and architectural remains of New Kingdom Egyptian palaces, I intend to demonstrate that palaces could be frightening places.
📖The lecture is based on my research conducted at the College for Social Sciences and Humanities | UA Ruhr
🇩🇪 The talk will be in German
I will tackle the role of space and things in the palaces in the process of intimidation, drawing inspiration from #ANT, #newmaterialism and #ontologicalturn.
🇨🇭I will be in Zurich next week at the University of Zurich as a guest of its ZAZH-Zentrum Altertumswissenschaften Zürich, presenting on archaeology of fear in ancient Egyptian palaces.
Join us there it you are around! 🙌
🚨 Job Klaxon! 🚨
@ucl.ac.uk Institute of Archaeology currently has a vacancy for an Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Islamic Archaeology (Ref.: B03-02751)
The post is available from 1 Jan 2026 & is funded until 31 Dec 2028 in the first instance, providing cover for Corisande Fenwick
bit.ly/4oxQgfp
Perfect end of the week with a hardcover example of our newest edited volume that just arrived today from Leiden ❤️
@sidestone.bsky.social
Open Access at
www.sidestone.com/books/bodies...
#ancientegypt #egyptology #corporealities #bodies #archaeology
It has long been thought that the “Plague of Akhetaten” led to the abandonment of the ancient Egyptian capital of Amarna around 1332 B.C. But surprising archaeological research gives a new picture of what happened there …
archaeology.org/news/2025/10/23/study-revisits-egypts-plague-of-akhetaten/
Just finished the introduction and grateful for every word and what I have learned.So many interesting parallels to the New Kingdom Egyptian colonialism in Nubia. We have no indigenous sources by Nubians but we can ask the right questions to Egyptian sources and read between the lines as you did.🙏