Ancient Egypt in Video Games
This volume is the first to focus on the presentation of Ancient Egypt in video games. The contributions examine diverse topics concerning how Egyptian history, culture, monuments, and the land itself...
Ancient Egypt in Video Games is now available for pre-order!
The website says a March publication, but my schedule from the publisher says Jan (🤞). The hb version is pretty pricey, but a ppb version will hopefully be down the line!
Check out details here:
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...
14.10.2025 17:18 — 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0
Als Monarchiehistoriker fand ich besonders spannend, dass der neue Großherzog in seiner Thronrede quasi Egon Flaig gechannelt hat, und seine Position auf die Akzeptanz der Bevölkerung zurückgeführt hat, ohne die es Legitimität und Autorität nicht geben könne.
03.10.2025 12:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Luxemburg hat einen neuen Großherzog
Erbgroßherzog Guillaume hat seinen Eid in der Chamber abgelegt und tritt damit offiziell die Nachfolge von Großherzog Henri an.
Heute findet in Luxemburg etwas statt, was nicht in allen westlichen Ländern mehr selbstverständlich erscheint: ein freiwilliger, friedlicher und geordneter Übergang von einem Staatsoberhaupt zum nächsten.
www.wort.lu/politik/luxe...
03.10.2025 12:28 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The cover of "Characters and Characterization in Mythological Video Games" by Alexander Vandewalle, to be published in the IMAGINES series by Bloomsbury Academic in May 2026. The cover depicts the cover art of Immortals Fenyx Rising, showing the game's protagonist Fenyx in battle with a towering Cyclops.
May 2026 👀
My monograph "Characters and Characterization in Mythological Video Games" will be out next year in @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social's IMAGINES series!
Many thanks to @ubisoft.com for the #ImmortalsFenyxRising art ⚡
More information (soon!) on www.bloomsbury.com/uk/character...
01.10.2025 14:48 — 👍 44 🔁 11 💬 8 📌 2
I can't find a MGC account on Bluesky, but maybe @jennycromwell.bsky.social would want to take a look, if you're not already aware of this issue?
18.09.2025 11:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Games, History and Heritage — Manchester Game Centre
At least I'm not the only one: some links on the new MGC website itself now redirect to the same defunct url, e.g. manchestergamecentre.org/games-histor... - e.g. the links to reviews of Ross Clare's or my own book.
18.09.2025 11:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I won't post it here, but you'll see what I mean if you visit manchestergamestudies. org
The link, which was up for YEARS on my uni page, leads to porn.
18.09.2025 11:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I thought they meant a broken link or something.
Turns out, MGSN changed their name (I think) and the original URL has changed owners apparently ... At least that's what I think happened. The new owners belong to rather a different business line...
18.09.2025 11:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Soooo... there is a thing called the Manchester Game Centre, which, I think, was originally called the Manchester Game Studies Network. I linked to a review on their blog on my uni URL, my CV, everything...
A colleague texted me to say to check the link on my uni url, just to be sure.
18.09.2025 11:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I never know with your skeets if you are talking about cricket or some weird new video game I haven‘t heard of
17.09.2025 20:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Will anyone ask the Dodos if they even WANT to come back to this time in our planet's history?
17.09.2025 20:02 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Kommt drauf an, wie viele wir sind. Stell dir vor es ist HT und keiner geht hin...
17.09.2025 18:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wer ist noch so alles NICHT beim Historikertag?
17.09.2025 14:21 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Zigarettengespräch von Studis überhört. Man diskutiert die Probleme beim Einsatz von ChatGPT usw., erkennt durchaus, dass es Handlungsbedarf gibt. Eine Studentin verspricht, das jetzt gar nicht mehr zu machen, KI-Copy-Paste, man müsse ernst bleiben.
Sie tippt das jetzt ab, wegen der Wasserzeichen.
17.09.2025 14:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Eh, revolutions are hard work...
10.09.2025 11:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Same; on my unmanageable to-do list. 👋
09.09.2025 20:41 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I mostly just draw emojis in the margins, though I have not yet mastered a good, easy-to-draw pencil version of a wtf emoji
09.09.2025 09:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What. the. shit.
01.09.2025 14:49 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
a monkey is sitting on a rock next to a cat in the woods .
ALT: a monkey is sitting on a rock next to a cat in the woods .
I'm writing a chapter on late antique emperors and kissing and I really, really want to call it "A kiss with a fist is better than none" but it has to be in French. 😭
27.08.2025 19:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Haven‘t heard about Greenland in a while. Is that still a thing?
27.08.2025 18:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How is what's happening now politically not the Earth Alliance plot line of Babylon 5, S2-4?
Seriously. What meaningful differences are there?
22.08.2025 19:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Aufsatz von Wirsching: Hyperkomplexe Paradoxie, leider zu lang für ALT und auch nicht online verfügbar
Aufsatz von Wirsching: Hyperkomplexe Paradoxie, leider zu lang für ALT und auch nicht online verfügbar
Aufsatz von Wirsching: Hyperkomplexe Paradoxie, leider zu lang für ALT und auch nicht online verfügbar
Eine Wut-Rede von Prof. Andreas Wirsching im aktuellen Heft von Forschung & Lehre - sehr lesenswert (aber auch zum verzweifeln)
„Die „Befreiung" von universitären Verpflichtungen in Lehre und Verwaltung dient dem Einkauf von Zeit für die „eigentliche" Arbeit der Professorinnen und Professoren“
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22.08.2025 08:26 — 👍 78 🔁 25 💬 5 📌 3
What's our thinking about authors recording audiobook versions of their books themselves, rather than leaving it to professionals?
21.08.2025 13:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Zum Vergleich:
Leipzig 2023: 7 Sektionen;
München 2021: 6;
Münster 2018: 5;
Hamburg 2016: 5;
Göttingen 2014: 4;
Mainz 2012: 2 (!).
15.08.2025 14:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Da der Historikertag nächsten Monat ansteht und von 76 Sektionen gerade einmal 3 althistorisch sind... mich würde interessieren: Empfinden Althistorikerinnen und Althistoriker den VHD und HT tatsächlich auch als "für sie"? Fühlt man sich zugehörig? Sehen das die anderen Epochen auch so?
15.08.2025 14:26 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
An der Supermarktkasse. Ältere Dame kauft gesund ein, junger (19?) Kassierer sichtlich überfordert, hat in seinem Leben noch kein Gemüse gesehen.
Hebt Wirsing fragend hoch; "Wirsing, junger Mann."
Hebt Knollensellerie fragend hoch; "Sellerie, junger Mann."
"Staudensel-", "Knolle, junger Mann."
14.08.2025 16:08 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Slightly diminish a band:
Radiohat.
13.08.2025 11:44 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 2
I finally submitted a manuscript today that has been bothering me since before Covid. At last, done and dusted.
12.08.2025 15:19 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Narrative Lead at CaptureAge, creating the Chronicles series for Age of Empires.
DPhil in Ancient History from @ox.ac.uk.
Happy to chat all things history and video games.
Cultural historian working on the ancient Mediterranean and Greek epigraphy
historian (Byzantium, urban history, charity), PhD-researcher, programme manager in Urban Studies 🇪🇺🏳️🌈
Metis Institut für Strategie und Vorausschau | Metis Institute for Strategy and Foresight
Universität der Bundeswehr München
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Senior Fellow at European Council on Foreign Relations. #Drone politics PhD @ox.ac.uk. Previously at, and now teaching @SciencesPo.bsky.social. Writes about all things #Germany #Defence #miltech. Podcast host at @SicherheitsPod.de & LeCollimateur
Heinz Heinen Fellow at @dependencybonn.de Historian of Late Antiquity, interested mainly in Prosopography, Late Latin Historiography, Ethnic Identity and Systems of Dependencies.
A fuckin' hippie
The son of the Cleaning Lady.
Chairman of Ancient Greek History at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Loco por incordiar
Anthropologist at Stockholm University. Senior historian, Firaxis. Water, ghosts, ruins, games. สนใจเรื่องไทย แม่น้ำโขง
https://andrewalanjohnson.com
https://www.dukeupress.edu/mekong-dreaming
Medieval historian | postdoc @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social | Early medieval manuscripts and religious education
Personal website: libripendis.eu
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researching ancient sports history from a sensory and didactic perspective | prae doc @uni-graz.at
doing something called Archaeokinetics •
bewegungsarchäologisch unterwegs |
alumnus Marburg University x Studienstiftung
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Archaeobotanist (bean counter and charred food enthusiast), Research Group Leader @ OeAW-OeAI. Frenchie papa. Opinions are my own. He/him 🏳️🌈
Dr. phil | teaching Ancient History @University of Graz | proud father of 💙💙 | Ancient Diplomacy and IR | Roman Republic | DH | Multispectral Epigraphy
Ph.D. student in English & Comp Lit at UNC - Chapel Hill. Researching women’s classical reception in literature. EIC at the Carolina Quarterly. Staff at Aôthen Magazine. She/Her.
https://linktr.ee/kaitlin_writes
I’m an academic labour activist, professor, Classical philologist, and sports historian living and working in Winnipeg.
Smith College/UMass Amherst | Art, architecture, material culture | Late Antiquity & the Early Middle Ages | 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸
Profesor de Historia Antigua en UPV/EHU. Proyecto de investigación ANIHO
Award-winning Commissioning Editor for Ancient History & Classical Studies
@edinburghup.bsky.social ~ she/her ~ various kinds of nerd 🎮🎲📚 ~ views my own etc.
Let's talk books: helena.heald@eup.ed.ac.uk
Podcaster and occasional merchant of words. A muppet of a man. I make: Emperors of Rome, When in Rome, Asia Rising, Raising Standards. Carthago delenda est.