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Anna Garnett
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Curator at Petrie Museum UCL - PhD @LivUni - FSA - Archaeological Ceramicist at Tell el-Amarna - Proud Cumbrian & Honorary Scouser - Scruffy Crafter - Socialist - Gardener - #FirstGen - Views mine
قلبي في السودان ومصر 🇸🇩🇪🇬
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Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · Nov 12
So I made the jump and happy to be here!

I'm Anna, sometime Curator - sometime Egyptologist - sometime Crafter. Always a fan of #Egyptian blue skies ☀️
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British surgeon Nick Maynard, who has just returned from volunteering in Gaza, explains to #GMB viewers how Israel confiscates all baby formula that doctors like him try to take with them.

Why does Israel do this? Because they want to starve Palestinian babies to death.
July 25, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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chrischirp.bsky.social
let the horror of this sink in

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
July 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
beketaten.bsky.social
Beyond Orwellian 🤮 #FreePalestine
July 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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gevemac.bsky.social
Seems trivial in the face of this horror but if I know one thing from studying Carthage it’s the importance of preserving the counter-narrative, the documentation of the evidence, and bearing witness.
beketaten.bsky.social Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · Jun 27
"It’s clear now that nothing will shame the West into stopping Israel from carrying out its “total victory” in Gaza. But I’ve written this to serve as yet another reminder that we all knew what was coming. Nobody can feign ignorance. Nobody can pretend they didn’t know."
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jun 27
‘Gaza must be eliminated’: Israel’s airwaves are filled with pro-genocide propaganda | Arwa Mahdawi
June 28, 2025 at 9:05 AM
beketaten.bsky.social
"It’s clear now that nothing will shame the West into stopping Israel from carrying out its “total victory” in Gaza. But I’ve written this to serve as yet another reminder that we all knew what was coming. Nobody can feign ignorance. Nobody can pretend they didn’t know."
June 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
beketaten.bsky.social
Yesterday marked my 8-year #Workiversary at the @uclpetriemuseum.bsky.social - something I'd never have believed 8 years ago.

Still very proud to work with such a special collection which continues to delight and surprise our visitors every day!

#Egypt #Sudan #Museums #Archaeology #LoveWhatYouDo
A post-it note written in pencil saying 'Thank you for the care of every detail. Loved this tiny but enriching museum' Post-it note saying 'This was a beautiful exhibit! Better than the British Museum!' Post-it note saying 'Not even halfway through, and this is by far the BEST museum in London - and trust me, I've been to them all. I'm glad I saved the best for last :) ' Post-it note in Arabic by Noura, saying thank you to the museum
June 27, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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nisreenalwan.bsky.social
“Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.”

Rumi
June 19, 2025 at 6:14 AM
beketaten.bsky.social
ENOUGH
ENOUGH
ENOUGH

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Israeli airstrike kills nine of Gaza doctor’s 10 children, reports say
Dr Alaa al-Najjar was on duty at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis when she received her children’s bodies
www.theguardian.com
May 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
beketaten.bsky.social
Not sure I could love this smug little ginger boy any more 🥰🐱

#EgyptianCat #AdoptDontShop
A ginger tabby cat with feet tucked under, looking smug A ginger tabby cat with front legs crossed A ginger cat being stroked on the head and smiling A ginger tabby cat yawning
May 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
beketaten.bsky.social
When a #museum visitor just gets it 🥰 This makes me very happy! @uclpetriemuseum.bsky.social #Egypt

www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/see...
Seeing Egypt differently: Lee Miller’s photos go on display in London
In 1934, an American-born but often UK-based photographer moved to Egypt, and some of her rarely seen photos are on display at the moment.
www.ianvisits.co.uk
May 8, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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benpaites.bsky.social
Archaeologists, if you are truly inclusive in your practice please sign this open letter. Everyone is welcome within the field of archaeology, whatever your gender or any other identity for that matter. We literally study the entire human past, so how can you ever exclude!
hannahfluck.bsky.social Dr Hannah Fluck @hannahfluck.bsky.social · May 2
The archaeological community has tried hard to become an inclusive and supportive place. This open letter to leaders in response to the Supreme Court ruling on gender from our sector is excellent, thank you to those involved. Please consider signing if you feel able
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Open Letter to CBA, CIfA, FAME, and UAUK, in relation the Supreme Court Ruling and EHRC Interim Guidance
If you are in any way involved in UK Archaeology (in its broadest sense), and you would like to sign this open letter then please fill in GOOGLE FORM LINK. Responses will be manually inputted. The for...
docs.google.com
May 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
beketaten.bsky.social
I never take this gorgeous place for granted. How lucky I am to have all this in my backyard #WilliamMorrisGallery #Walthamstow #E17Life #SpringtimeInLondon
May 4, 2025 at 9:58 PM
beketaten.bsky.social
'On a typical day, groups of school children would stare in awe at this reminder of their nation's imposing past, tourists would file through one of Khartoum's must-sees and concerts were held in the grounds. But that was before war broke out'

#KeepEyesOnSudan #Sudan

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sudan: How war ravaged museums and priceless artefacts - BBC News
Sudan's national museum is among the institutions that have been looted and vandalised during the war.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 26, 2025 at 10:28 AM
beketaten.bsky.social
'The idea of #Salah and #Liverpool bound to each other, each looking out for the other, is perhaps one that speaks to the city’s broader mythology. “My kids are scousers now,” he joked in a recent interview'

#MoSalah #LFC #Egypt #EgyptianKing

www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Mohamed Salah: a bridge between worlds in Liverpool
The Egyptian is more than simply a role model in his adopted home, he speaks to the city’s broader mythology
www.theguardian.com
April 26, 2025 at 8:06 AM
beketaten.bsky.social
Birthday Dude 🥰 #AprilBaby
April 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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egyptologinenseura.bsky.social
Egyptologi Anne Garnettin ketjun avulla voi nojatuolimatkustaa Egyptiin. Hyvää pääsiäistä!
beketaten.bsky.social Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · Apr 17
Enjoyed another very special journey up the #Nile last month. Starting off in Cairo and in the Grand #Egyptian Museum, we made our slow way south towards Aswan (1/ )
April 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
beketaten.bsky.social
Enjoyed another very special journey up the #Nile last month. Starting off in Cairo and in the Grand #Egyptian Museum, we made our slow way south towards Aswan (1/ )
April 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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chowleen.bsky.social
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD
April 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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The looting of the National Museum of Sudan is catastrophic for cultural heritage there and around the world. www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/04/01/h...
‘We are crying’: heritage authorities express sorrow after Sudan National Museum looted and ransacked
The museum, which houses artefacts dating back millennia, has been caught in the crossfire of the civil war raging in the North African country
www.theartnewspaper.com
April 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
beketaten.bsky.social
My #Gizapolitan stash from Cairo. Stuff that looks like #Egyptian stuff is truly my favourite kind of stuff 😁

#Cairopolitan #Egypt
April 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
beketaten.bsky.social
Albie hopes that you've had a good day. Much like his hero #Garfield, he doesn't much like Mondays either...

#MondayMotivation #CatsOfBluesky #EgyptianCat #قلبي
A ginger tabby cat looking directly into the camera while reclining on a sofa
April 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
beketaten.bsky.social
Albie admiring my new stash of books from #Egypt 🐱

#BooksOfBluesky #CatsOfBluesky
A ginger tom cat sat behind a stack of books
April 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM
beketaten.bsky.social
"The museum held an estimated 100,000 artefacts from thousands of years of the country’s history, including the Nubian kingdom, the Kushite empire and through to the Christian and Islamic eras." A desperate tragedy & shameful indictment

#KeepEyesOnSudan #Sudan

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
New images reveal extent of looting at Sudan’s national museum as rooms stripped of treasures
Only a few statues remain, with thousands of priceless artefacts from Nubian and Kushite kingdoms missing
www.theguardian.com
March 31, 2025 at 10:07 AM
beketaten.bsky.social
Wishing a beautiful and blessed #EidMubarak to all those celebrating 🌛

Especially to all those who cannot be with their families or are marking their Eid el Fitr amongst terror in #Sudan and #Palestine.

كل سنة وانت طيب
March 31, 2025 at 6:02 AM
beketaten.bsky.social
Saluting the sun at the Temple of Hathor ☀️🐱

#CatsOfBluesky #Caturday #EgyptianCat
March 29, 2025 at 4:04 AM