This article builds on the notions of thick and thin description elaborated by Geertz and looks
at what descriptive methods have been used in the field of papyrology, a sub-discipline of …

In this article, we present the idea of a digital transit port, an online space that illicit cultural
objects pass through in digital format while on a pathway to public legitimization. These …

Following its nominal independence from Britain in 1922, Egypt increasingly protested
continued European control of the Service des antiquités de l'Égypte, the office that …

The archeological practices of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that led the
search for papyri and the formation of the great collections of Europe and North America …

Taking its name from the writing medium produced from the papyrus plant, papyrology is the
study and use of texts written on papyrus and other portable materials (potsherds, limestone …