Zeta Xekalaki
zetax.bsky.social
Zeta Xekalaki
@zetax.bsky.social
Archaeologist-Egyptologist- Social Media Manager- Distance Learning Educator. 🍉
Thrilled to find out that @UoPeople, where I have the honor to serve as an adjunct instructor, is now accredited by WASC. If you agree that education should be a right for all and not a privilege for a few, share! #UoPeopleAccreditation #EducationForAll
March 5, 2025 at 6:21 AM
The first royal #tomb in #Egypt's Theban area since 1922 has been found; Tomb C4 in the West Wadis (close to the Valley of the Kings) once hosted #Pharaoh Thutmose II, the husband of Queen Hatshepsut. www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2025/02...
February 20, 2025 at 7:33 AM
A King's Mother from the medieval #Nubian kingdom of Makuria. For more reconstructions of Medieval Robes from Nubia, in the exhibition at the Bode-Museum, Berlin, from February 6. #blackhistorymonth #archaeology #africa
www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2025/02...
February 4, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Reconstructions of #Medieval Robes from #Nubia. Five robes for royal mothers, kings, and a bishop have been reconstructed based on paintings from the cathedral of Faras (medieval Nubian Kingdom of Makuria) and archaeological material. #exhibition. www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2025/02...
February 3, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Athens peeps, this is for you! #palestine, #event
January 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM
#PostDoc position on ancient #Egyptian #slavery announced. The successful candidate will explore the position of slaves through papyrological sources in ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Latin through project SLaVEgents, hosted at the University of Crete. buff.ly/3PxrPil
January 13, 2025 at 10:02 AM
#HappeningNow. Religious Secularity at #Byblos: a Laboratory Synthesising the Materiality of the Eastern Mediterranean in the Middle Bronze Age. #Workshop running from 9 a.m. CET, by Professor Gianluca Miniaci and Camilla Saler. Streaming Link: bit.ly/ReligiousSec...
December 17, 2024 at 9:19 AM
New discoveries at Taposiris Magna Temple, #Alexandria. Significant discoveries include 337 coins, many depicting Cleopatra VII, oil lamps, bronze statues, a limestone container for cosmetics, a scarab amulet, and an impressive head of a statuette buff.ly/4ixuPII
December 11, 2024 at 10:21 AM
A special thank you goes to the Greek Ephorate of Paleoanthropology-Speleology for their invaluable collaboration on this issue. www.archaiologia.gr/blog/2024/12...
December 6, 2024 at 8:51 AM
If only we knew more about whether carving a pharaonic stela-like inscription abroad (Sudan & West Asia as far as Tayma in modern Saudi Arabia - pic.) was associated with a particular ritual, and what was in there...
December 3, 2024 at 9:44 AM
This day’s read. Illuminating!

Abd el-Gawad, Heba; (2023) Strategic Narcissism: A Lived Experience of ‘Decolonising’, Inclusion of and ‘Collaborations’ with Indigenous Researchers. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology , 148 (2) discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
November 22, 2024 at 9:16 AM
Archaeologists need to recenter their practices from the outset, not just during times of war. Well-versed thoughts, by Isabelle Vella Gregory in her recent "The Invisibility of Sudan's Civil War" paper. Full paper here www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
November 20, 2024 at 10:10 AM