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Carrie Arbuckle
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Asst Prof Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology @ St Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan - Egyptologist - wooden coffins, women, digital games. She/her
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I love this bag - from a great bookstore in Cairo - Diwan. Featuring the hoopoe, one of my favourite birds, often shown in ancient Egyptian garden scenes. #Egyptology
A picture of a brown shopping bag with a hoopoe bird sitting on a coffee cup, thinking, I see books, I see coffee, I see a good day ahead.
November 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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This is one of my favourite scenes from the tomb of Horemhab - the ritual of breaking the red pots. This ritual was actually carried out, and remnants of the pots have been found associated with funeral ceremonies, to protect the dead. #Archaeology #Egyptology
Relief scene showing an individual wailing before a collection of smashed red pots. Another prepares a pile of offerings. A wailing figure beside a collection of smashed red pots
November 6, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Check out this unfinished statue from the tomb of Tia. Chisel marks cover the surface. I absolutely love pieces like this that show the creation process. This would have become a a seated couple. #Archaeology #Egyptology
A seated couple statue, unfinished with chisel marks.
November 3, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Scribes in the tomb of Horemheb, taking note of the captured enemy. #Archaeology #Egyptology
A wall relief showing kneeling scribes working on tablets. Before them a prisoner is being dragged in front of Horemhab
November 3, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Last day in the coolest office! The tomb of Horemhab. #Egyptology #Archaeology
Poster sits in front of a microscope with a columned courtyard behind her
November 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Offering bearers adding to the pile in the tomb of Horemhab. Just remnants of the colourful paint that once decorated these scenes remains. #Egyptology #Archaeology
Offering bearers carry offerings towards a heap for the tomb owner. Res paint remains on their bodies. A stylized pike of offerings with bread loaves, a cow’s head and leg? And bouquets of flowers.
November 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Mmmmm breakfast in Cairo!! #Egypt
Breakfast in Cairo - beans, falafel, pita, and lemon and mint juice.
October 31, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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We start our day pretty early - and the. Drive to site. One benefit is getting to see the city start moving, and the sky slowly brighten as we start our day. Join me as the sunrises in this Timelapse!
October 30, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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It would have been incredible to see the pyramids encased in white, blazing in the sun, and dotting the horizon. #Egyptology #Archaeology
A hazy day in Egypt with pyramids on the horizon.
October 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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A donkey at Sunrise. It’s good luck, I’m sure.
A donkey in front of the sunrise in Egypt.
October 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Here’s a beautiful little monkey from the tomb of Maya and Merry from Saqqara. #Egyptology #Archaeology
A carved relief of a monkey underneath a throne
October 29, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Good morning from Saqqara! In the background is Djoser’s stepped pyramid. The first pyramid of Egypt! #Egyptology #Archaeology
Image of the author with the stepped pyramid of Djoser in the background.
October 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Sunset from our balcony in Abusir - having a fantastic season in Saqqara! #Egyptology #Archaeology
A sunset shining through two pyramids with Egyptian buildings in the foreground
October 28, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Check out these fantastic 18th/19th century attempts to draw hieroglyphs. They are incredible. Particularly this… anteater Amit? Just wonderful. This copy of the original from Bologna is in the Prague National Museum. #Archaeology #Egyptology
Fake hieroglyphs from the 18th/19th century. Fake hieroglyphs from the 18th/19th century.
May 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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This is the first room about the history of beer from the Pilsner Urquell “experience” in Prague. I love it. The music playing is an interpretation of the hymn to Nikasa. Other goods to agriculture and beer included too! It was awesome. #Mesopotamia #Egyptology #Archaeology #Beer
May 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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My little papyrus garden is going strong… raising the plants I need to make papyrus sheets with my students next year!! #Archaeology #Egyptology #IDidntQuiteThinkThroughAllThatThisProjectEntailed
Pots of papyrus plants near a window
May 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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It’s up! You can download a PDF of ARCHAEOLOGICAL WOOD AND WOODWORKING for free until March 31! Tree science, dendrochronology, tool marks, and Egyptian coffin case studies! #Archaeology #Dendrochronology #Egyptology

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Screenshot of a book cover - Archaeological Wood and Woodworking
March 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Finished checking the proofs for my Archaeological Wood and Woodworking ‘Element’ (Coming Soon!) - then went to the wood shop to make a quick sorting box for the garage. Not the prettiest work, but she gets the job done haha #Archaeology #Dendroarchaeology #Egyptology
Proof of the Cambridge University Element Archaeological Wood and Woodworking Picture of me with a bunch of cut wood A modest sorting box that the author put together
February 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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I love these vessels from the MFA in Boston. Skeuomorphs! Imitations of prestigious stone vessels. Wonderful. #Egyptology #Archaeology
Three vessels made of pottery, decorated to look like stone.
January 28, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Hi Bluesky! I’m giving a talk on Zoom next week for the Archaeological Society of Alberta, Lethbridge Center. Check out the Facebook event, or message me for the zoom link!

Snapshots of Coffins & Carpenters in Ancient Egypt
January 7, 7pm MST

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#Egyptology #Archaeology
An image of a false door from the interior of a coffin, showing an illustrated wood grain.
January 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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My holiday photos from a trip to Vancouver… I took some of family too, but these are the highlights 😉
49th parallel coffee Sesame balls! Siu mai dumplings! Yam tempura roll and tuna maki sushi.
December 21, 2024 at 12:59 AM
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Every year I just can’t handle how ridiculous this is. In a good way. Anybody else? #IYKYK
A horrible drawing of Santa going down a chimney
December 10, 2024 at 3:58 AM
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A very merry holidays from me and my gingerbread pharaohs! Aren’t they adorable?! I have a bunch of amazing cookie cutters from Bakerology - bakerlogy.com/collections/... #Egyptology
Gingerbread men in the shape of pharaoh mummies
December 5, 2024 at 4:50 AM
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Today’s pop culture reference to the ancient world in class comes from Marvel Universe: The End. Turns out Akhenaten got pretty close to destroying the universe!! Haha - the 6 issue spread is marvellous. #MarvelComics #Egyptology #Archaeology
A page from the comic Marvel Universe, The End, discussing Akhenaten, here showing the king, and explaining that he lived in the 18th dynasty, and his death was a mystery. A page from the comic Marvel Universe, The End, discussing Akhenaten. Here the suggestion is made that he was abducted by aliens.
December 3, 2024 at 4:51 PM
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One of my students was a metalsmith and is now planning on studying metalwork in ancient Egypt. He’s experimenting with different casting techniques, and made me this bronze Osiris. How cool is that?! #Egyptology #Archaeology
Cast bronze Osiris
November 30, 2024 at 12:53 AM