by mqbssnna | Apr 30, 2019 | Uncategorised
When you primarily teach online, you often get invited or included in events about emerging technologies and their role and suitability in Higher Education. For about a year, we have been increasingly fascinated by the potential of Virtual Reality (VR) as a teaching...
by mqbssnna | Apr 29, 2019 | Uncategorised
Egyptology at the University of Manchester has been taught in many different forms and formats through the years. In the early 20th century the noted Egyptologist Margaret Murray gave public lectures at the Manchester Museum. In the 1980s and 1990s, Egyptology was...
by mqbssnna | Apr 24, 2019 | Uncategorised
Dr Joyce Tyldesley has recently published a book on Nefertiti’s famous bust from Tell el-Amarna (currently in the Neues Museum Berlin), its manufacture, history and the many different ways in which museum goers and members of the public have engaged with it...
by mqbssnna | Mar 25, 2019 | Uncategorised
One of the benefits of teaching online is that lectures can (and should!) be pre-recorded some time in advance of the actual scheduled class taking place (as already discussed in Behind the Scenes #1). This means that there is a greater degree of flexibility in...
by mqbssnna | Mar 21, 2019 | Uncategorised
The Manchester Museum collection houses more than 18.000 objects from Egypt and Sudan – one of the largest collections in the United Kingdom. Unlike many museums, most of this collection comes not from auctions, but from known excavations – mainly those conducted by...
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