Drift Technician/Egyptologist/Ancient Cultures PGT/Mall Santa/Gandalf the Ginger. Currently fixing the timeline.
Hookland, UK
Joined July 2009
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As promised to link to my first actual Hookland book. It is only small, but covers a lot of the ghost soil. If enough of you buy it and like it there will be a Volume Two.
amazon.co.uk/dp/1068598123
It will also be available in an actual bookshop soon.
Photo from the fire in Glasgow last night.
All rumours of an Alien invasion have been rigorously denied.
My first shot at presenting some proper Egyptology.
A paper I’ve been working on for a while around my MSc and parental shenanigans.
The programme of the 12th #Birmingham #Egyptology #Symposium is officially out!
The event will take place on June 9, 2025, but stay tuned because other news are on their way!
Reserve your spot on Eventbrite: shorturl.at/MNaMl
#BES #BES2025 #BES25
The Rites have been undertaken and witnessed by the Gods.
It is now just a matter of time.
So may it be.
Amun.
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Until tonight I was not aware that there is a popular singer called Celeste.
Until tonight, 5 lovely women from Liverpool weren't aware that there is a French avant-garde post-hardcore, post-black metal band called Celeste.
Sadly for them I was not the one at the wrong gig.
And after 20+ years since first hearing about this project, it’s finally here.
Now to see if I can get an essay about Glycon passed by the Classics Dept for next term.
I must have been looking particularly action-packed this morning waiting for the library to open. I was asked by a couple of eager looking undergraduate sorts if I was the University Skydiving club.
Any light you could share on the law regarding this donation of a military support vehicle to someone on the US sanction list? @StateDeptPM
Ramzan Kadyrov says @elonmusk sent him this Cybertruck, which he is seen driving around his palace in Chechnya. He has fitted it with a gun turrent and claims he is going to send it for Chechen forces to use in the invasion of Ukraine. t.me/RKadyrov_95/4999
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I enjoy this image of the Transport Museum in Glasgow.
My favourite part is the four desire lines cut into the grass because cars have been prioritised over pedestrians.
ALT Satellite image from Google of the Transport Museum in Glasgow. A lot of the photograph is taken up with several roads and car parks. Rail lines are also visible. There are some paths in the image, but they don't take direct routes. You can see direct routes cut into the grass where people have walked direct routes.
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They are so beautiful 🤩 However, as someone who watched a lot of mummy movies, they would also kind of scare me when they crossed my path... 😂
#Egypt #Egyptomania
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Did you know?
There are solar-powered lasers installed in the Saudi Arabia desert to help guide the lost to water sources.
Hundreds of rescue missions have taken place throughout Saudi Arabia’s vast deserts over the years. The great majority of individuals who went missing were recovered within 24 hours. A few people were luckily recovered after living for days in the desert.
Only in 2020, 131 individuals went missing in various incidents while crossing Saudi Arabia’s deserts. They were either unprepared for or unaware of the desert’s hazards. According to records, 20 individuals died from hunger and thirst as a result of missing in the deserts, but 100 of them were found to be in fine health, while 11 other cases remain unknown.
So, to avoid the hazards that occur in deserts when people miss the directions and to guide the lost people, Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture have installed solar-powered laser lights at water sources in Al Jouf Province and the desert of Nafud, north of Hail.
