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Anna Garnett

@beketaten.bsky.social
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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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The Egypt Exploration Society @theees.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Get a glimpse into the life of the everyday person who lived thousands of years ago through the objects they used in their daily lives. You might be surprised how similar ancient Egyptians were to us today! 🎧 #AwayWithThePharaohs with @beketaten.bsky.social 📸 Pottery in @uclpetriemuseum.bsky.social
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
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.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
let the horror of this sink in www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Beyond Orwellian 🤮 #FreePalestine
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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
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.
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Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
"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."
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Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
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
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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
“Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.” Rumi
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Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
ENOUGH ENOUGH ENOUGH www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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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
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Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Not sure I could love this smug little ginger boy any more 🥰🐱 #EgyptianCat #AdoptDontShop
A ginger tabby cat with feet tucked under, looking smugA ginger tabby cat with front legs crossedA ginger cat being stroked on the head and smilingA ginger tabby cat yawning
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Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
When a #museum visitor just gets it 🥰 This makes me very happy! @uclpetriemuseum.bsky.social #Egypt www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/see...
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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.
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🏰 Ben Paites 🏛️ @benpaites.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
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!
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Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
I never take this gorgeous place for granted. How lucky I am to have all this in my backyard #WilliamMorrisGallery #Walthamstow #E17Life #SpringtimeInLondon
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Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
'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...
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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.
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Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
'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...
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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
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Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Birthday Dude 🥰 #AprilBaby
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Suomen Egyptologinen Seura @egyptologinenseura.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Egyptologi Anne Garnettin ketjun avulla voi nojatuolimatkustaa Egyptiin. Hyvää pääsiäistä!
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Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
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/ )
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
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
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alexbrey.bsky.social @alexbrey.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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...
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‘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
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Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
My #Gizapolitan stash from Cairo. Stuff that looks like #Egyptian stuff is truly my favourite kind of stuff 😁 #Cairopolitan #Egypt
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Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
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
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Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Albie admiring my new stash of books from #Egypt 🐱 #BooksOfBluesky #CatsOfBluesky
A ginger tom cat sat behind a stack of books
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Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
"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...
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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
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Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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
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Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Saluting the sun at the Temple of Hathor ☀️🐱 #CatsOfBluesky #Caturday #EgyptianCat
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Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
A very wise colleague suggested to me that travelling by boat in #Egypt means seeing the country as the ancient Egyptian people would have seen it... #UpTheNile #Egypt #Archaeology #Horizons
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Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Wee bit proud ❤️
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Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Today I taught my last class of the academic year. It's been quite a challenge to get here this time round so I'm pretty proud of that! Huge thanks to the 100s of students for their enthusiasm & special thanks to @catrionacurator.bsky.social for always having my back ❤️🙏 #Egypt #Sudan #Archaeology
A large Egyptian pot decorated with a chain design that looks like a smiling faceA group of students looking at Museum cases and opening drawers of objectsStudents wearing gloves handling objects in a trayEgyptian hieroglyphs cut in stone
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/03/2025
Ancestral remains should no longer be displayed in UK museums, say MPs
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Ancestral remains should no longer be displayed in UK museums, say MPs
Remains brought to Britain as part of colonialism, such as Egyptian mummies, should be repatriated, a report says The public display of human remains in the UK, including the ancient Egyptian mummies in the British Museum, is offensive and should be…
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Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Beautiful smug little Albie. He has ambitions to be the next big feline talk show host 🤣 #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky #PetsOfBluesky #EgyptianCat #AdoptDontShop
A ginger cat sitting on a green velvet sofa with one elbow over the side of the arm of the sofa
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Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Written 78 years apart and very interesting to compare. What is the future of #Egyptology? #WeekendReads #Egypt #Archaeology #Futures
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Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Convinced that this little #Egyptian boy has his own nemes-headdress and uraeus! Anyone else see it?? #Egypt #Pharaoh #NewCat #CatsOfBluesky @grmorgan.bsky.social
Head of a sleeping ginger cat with vertical markings over the face and neckGolden mask of Tutankhamun
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Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Two weeks with this sweet little #Egyptian boy and he's made himself very much at home - chilling with @grmorgan.bsky.social while gaming, and checking over my #Arabic homework! #NewCat #AdoptDontShop
Ginger cat reading handwritten Arabic Ginger cat with side eye chilling out
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Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
When a #millennial curates an Egyptology exhibition 🤘 Huge congratulations to Ben Hinson & team on the incredible #MakingEgypt exhibition at the Young V&A. Go see it! www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/... #Egypt #Museums #London
A museum label about the Egyptian god Khepri entitled 'Keep rolling, rolling, rolling' Mass display of modern shabti figures holding different signsModern large block imitating a block from the Great Pyramid Cartoon of the Egyptian God Thoth as a sign reading hieroglyphs
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Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Sunday morning lie-ins a thing of the past 😬 but being woken by this beautiful #Egyptian face is no hardship! #CatsOfBluesky #NewCat
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Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I've never been too keen on cats. But I love #Egypt and really wanted a new pet. So we combined the two & this beautiful little ginger boi was the result! This is Albie (قلبي) a street cat from Giza. He's taken his big move to the UK in his stride & now living his best life in E17 🐈 #CatsOfBluesky
Ginger tabby cat with a white tail chilling in the sun with his eyes closedGinger tabby cat lying down with one eye openGinger tabby cat looking alert
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Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
How fortunate I was to work there, for three months, back in 2009. The very best way to beat the January gloom! Why Egypt’s Colossi of Memnon are my wonder of the world www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/... #Egypt #Archaeology
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Why Egypt’s Colossi of Memnon are my wonder of the world
Emerging from the heat shimmer, these two enormous statues in Luxor appear completely otherwordly – like giants in a wheat field
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
A fantastic aerial photo of the #Giza plateau: the #pyramids are not nearly as remote as many people think. Nowadays they are flanked on three sides by the roads and neighborhoods of Giza, one of #Egypt's largest cities. Photo: Sebastian Nagy 🏺 AncientEgyptBluesky
The photo shows the Giza plateau with the three Pyramids, which are surrounded on three sides by roads and a dense development.
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Isabelle Vella Gregory @ivg.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Today marks Independence Day for #Sudan. These are my reflections and a call to #archaeology and #archaeologists 🏺 thejebelmoyaproject.wordpress.com/2025/01/01/r...
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Reflecting on Sudan’s Independence
1.1.1956. 68 years ago today, the Republic of Sudan was established. On paper, Sudan achieved independence without conflict. It is one of those oft repeated statements that features in many a histo…
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Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Best Christmas present of all today. First sunshine I've seen for ten days 😬 #Betwixtmas #Walthamstow
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Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
"But it is in the old story that all beasts can talk, in the night between Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in the morning (though there are very few folk that can hear them, or know what it is that they say)" The Tailor of Gloucester, Beatrix Potter (1903) #BeatrixPotter #PeterRabbit #ChristmasEve
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Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Not the easiest week. But I found a bit of joy when a wee #robin joined me for lunch on Thursday, and then brought his little mate along the next day. Little things eh! #NearlyChristmas
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Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Back in September, I was fortunate to celebrate the 20th anniversary of moving to #Liverpool for my #Egyptology studies. The best part was spending it with my amazing friends. We bonded immediately back in 2004 over our questionable hieroglyph translation skills 🤣 alumni.liv.ac.uk/blog/2024/eg...
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Egyptian Archaeology graduates celebrate 20 years of friendship - Alumni - University of Liverpool
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
🎄 DEC 2: Bir Tawil If yesterday was about sovereignty without territory, today is about territory without sovereignty. The Bir Tawil is one of the few pieces of land territory on earth which no state claims, meaning it is a terra nullius. So how did this happen? 🧵(1/x)
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Morgan W-B @morganw-b.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
#museum30 day 29: hope We’re always hoping for a better week, month, year, one more calm, more organised, more measured, with no catastrophes, etc., but they rarely seem to come. Instead, I hope we can at least find a precious work/life balance and claw back some time, reinforcing our boundaries
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Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Few things more perfect than a sunny, cold winter morning. Grateful for every moment I'm able to spend in this kind of life #E17 #Walthamstow
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Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
So fortunate to live within a stone's throw of the wonderful William Morris Gallery! Their new exhibition explores art from the #Islamic world inc. Morris's own lecture illustrations inspired by ancient #Egyptian design More here: www.wmgallery.org.uk/event/willia... #Walthamstow #E17
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Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
How to bridge Modern #Egypt with Ancient and medieval Egypt? Prof. Hany Rashwan (UAE University) emphasises that one key solution is for *Euro-American Egyptologists to learn #Arabic* to engage and better understand contemporary issues. I couldn't agree more! #BodiesOfKnowledge
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Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Happiness is two weeks' worth of Corrie to catch up on, heat on for the first time (I know...), knitting and a curry. Live your best life folks, always ☺️
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