2023-06-27 19:52
This text is a short paper I submitted to a course at Linköping University:
A formative moment in Norse religion seems to have been the war between the Aesir and Vanir gods. The story… Read More
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2022-09-20 07:51
The old system of publically displaying ballots, different colors for the different elections, Photo: Wikimedia Commons
An American friend asked me to explain our recent elections here in Sw… Read More
2022-08-16 13:38
The annual Medieval Week has just ended in Visby, on the island of Gotland, with its city walls dating back to the 13th century (and before) and more than one hundred medieval churches arou… Read More
2022-03-23 14:21
Return of the Pharaoh is the latest Sherlock Holmes pastiche by Nicholas Meyer, otherwise known as a Hollywood director (including two Star Trek movies) and writer. I greatly enjoyed the fir… Read More
2021-08-16 13:14
The Medieval campsite for dedicated participants
This year’s Medieval Week on the island of Gotland was a reduced affair, and disappointing in a number of ways.
Because of Covid, last… Read More
2020-09-09 13:03
With Dr. Federico Poole at the Egyptian Museum in Turin, in front of the coffin of Butehamun
At last my Masters Thesis in Archaeology has been approved and is online. Here’s the Abstra… Read More
2020-08-27 08:03
Anundshög, outside Västerås is an Iron Age site with numerous burial mounds and stone-settings, five ship-setings, and a runestone. Anundshögen itself is Sweden’s… Read More
2020-01-13 13:02
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2019-11-14 13:14
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2019-11-12 11:22
Mortuary Temple of Ramses II
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” Read More
2019-11-12 07:32
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2019-11-12 05:07
The earliest temple, dedicated to the patron deities of the Necropolis, the royals believed to have founded Deir el Medina Read More
2019-11-11 18:39
2019-11-10 13:01
Sons of Ramses IIISons of Ramses III: Read More
2019-11-10 12:37
2019-11-10 06:27
The favorite wife of Ramses II Read More
2019-11-09 22:08
Shot with DXO ONE Camera
Shot with DXO ONE Camera
Shot with DXO ONE Read More
2019-11-09 21:44
Ramses III smites down the Sea Peoples Read More
2019-11-09 12:30
TT 1 – Tomb of Sennedjem:
Tomb of Inherka:
Tomb of Ipuy (?):
TT 3 – Tomb of Pashedu:
TT 1338 – Amennakht:
TT 291 – Nakhtmin (is here somewhere): Read More
2019-11-09 11:52
The House of Dhutmose
The Cistern
The Great Well (used as a rubbish dump) Read More
2019-11-08 20:16
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2019-11-08 15:53
Shot with DXO ONE Camera
Shot with DXO ONE Camera Read More
2019-08-19 13:02
Here are some random photos from Medieval Week 2019 in Visby: Read More
2019-05-20 13:05
November 2022 marks 100 years since Howard Carter’s amazing discovery of the intact tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings. To mark the centenary, the collection is d… Read More
2019-01-18 17:54
The Hall of Origins
This may be a replica
This may be a replica
Entrance to the Homonid Skull Room
Paranthropus aethiopicus – 2.5 million years old, found by Alan Walker on the we… Read More
2019-01-12 06:31
There are two palaces here. A replica (apparently) of an old hut palace, and a new palace built in the 30’s for the next to last king (photography inside was forbidden).
Grain stored… Read More
2018-10-01 14:24
Skulls and other remains of victims at the Karongi Genocide Memorial, Photo: George Wood
The Rwandan genocide was built on a lie about ethnicity. But how true is the story invented to encour… Read More
2018-09-12 13:02
Artist’s reconstruction of Buhen in the Middle Kingdom, Image: Wikimedia Commons
“Nubians, I was hoping to avoid them” (from “The Jewel of the Nile”)
Egypt&rsq&helli…Read More
2018-08-23 12:37
The ancient gate in the walls of Guding slott
In mid-July I finally had an opportunity to take part in an archaeological excavation. I spent four days on a dig by the Gotland Archaeological… Read More
2018-04-19 13:52
Deir el-Medina, Photo: Steve Cameron, Creative Commons
This is the paper I wrote for Archaeology B, describing how the Egyptian New Kingdom workers’ village of Deir el-Medina, the dese… Read More
2017-11-06 15:27
Stockby Burial Mound, Lidingö 6:1
After visiting the Stockby burial mound Lidingö 6:1 recently, I wrote to the Stockholm County Administrative Board,to point out that the sign desc… Read More
2017-10-31 11:00
Not far from Stockby is Långängens gård, a farmstead that apparently dates back to the Viking period. Today a popular cafe, the hill behind the current farm buildings was t… Read More
2017-10-30 11:00
Just a couple of hundred meters from the Stockby burial mound is an unexcavated gravefield with five stone-setting mounds. The graves are believed to date from the Viking Age (the Late Iron… Read More
2017-10-29 11:09
Burial mound Lidingö 6:1
In connection with my Archeology course from Uppsala University, I have been visiting burial mounds and grave fields here on Lidingö. I was very surprised… Read More
2017-09-11 18:45
The face of Butehamun on his coffin in the Egyptian Museum in Turin
I am delighted that my article about Butehamun (spelled “Butehamen” in accordance with their style guide) has… Read More
2017-08-09 13:55
Photos from 2016 and 2017:
Watchers on the walls, inauguration 2016
Inauguration parade 2016
Inauguration parade 2016
The Gotlandic and German mayors of Visby calm the crowd before the 1361… Read More
2017-08-05 14:35
2017-07-17 11:52
I was fortunate enough to win an Advanced Reader’s Edition of the final Amelia Peabody book, completed after the death of Eluzabeth Peters/Barbara Mertz by Joan Hess. The book is a w… Read More
2017-07-05 12:09
Akagera is on Rwanda’s eastern border with Tanzania, and includes Lake Ihema, through which the Nile waters travel. It is the home of savannah animals.
Entering Akagera National Park… Read More
2017-06-29 11:54
South from Cairo:
The Nile in Cairo
The Nile in Luxor
South of Luxor
South of Luxor
The Nile at Aswan
Probably in Abu Simbel Read More
2017-06-29 09:44
The Nile in Rwanda, starts with Lake Ihema:
Sunrise over Lake Ihema
A hippo in Lake Ihema
The Nile as the Kagera River, near Kigali
Trailhead of the Source of the Nile Trail
The Source of t… Read More
2017-06-27 20:12
Examining Ostracon Louvre N 698 in the Louvre archives
Today permission arrived from the Louvre to use my photos of Butehamun’s letter to the coffin of his wife, Ostracon Louvre N 698… Read More
2017-06-26 16:02
With Dr. Federico Poole at the Egyptian Museum in Turin, in front of the coffin of Butehamun
On May 19, also thanks to the Wångstedt’s Foundation, I was able to visit the Egyptia… Read More
2017-06-26 12:20
The Louvre’s Catherine Bridonneau taking out Ostracon Louvre 698
As part of my research into Butehamun, and to help create a website about the famous scribe of Deir el-Medina, the W&ar&hell…Read More
2017-06-26 07:30
Middle Kingdom funerary boat at the Museum Gustavianum in Uppsala
In the two years since my last post I’ve retired from Radio Sweden (after 40 years), and gone back to school to earn a… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
2016-03-19 18:53
The return of Summer (Daylight Savings) Time to Europe. The end of the Darkness (for a time) Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
After Christmas I prepared for the 2014 MLB season by watching my recordings from the 2013 World Baseball Classic. This was fun, following the progress of the Netherlands to the semi-finals… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
We have received a wine delivery from Systembolaget, Sweden’s state-owned retail alcohol monopoly. This was extraordinary, but it also reflects the company’s twin missions, to s… Read More
2015-06-18 21:01
Midsummer in Sigtuna
Midsummer is the most important holiday in Sweden and Denmark, after Christmas. Anyone who has experienced the darkness of the Scandinavian Winter can appreciate the des… Read More
2014-09-10 09:08
iPhone 6 and 6 Plus to go on sale in Sweden (at least by Telia) on September 26 Read More
2014-09-03 08:32
Yesterday and today have come news that two of the things I thought were the worst or weirdest about France are being changed, the stores being closed on Sundays, and the schools being close… Read More
2014-06-18 11:26
This week Stockholm is hosting a qualifying tournament for the 2014 European Cup. Besides the Swedish champs, the other teams taking part are from Moscow, Vilnius, and Bern:
http://www.base… Read More
2014-06-06 13:28
National Day 2011 at Millesgården, Lidingö,
Today is Sweden’s National Day, and practically no one cares.
Under the headline “National Day, a bluff clothed in Blue an… Read More
2014-04-27 08:23
Defending Swedish champs Stockholm opened the 2014 season taking a doubleheader from visiting Leksand, 6-5 and 9-3.
Leksand led the first game until the bottom of the ninth inning, when Sto… Read More
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