All my workmen were excited to have a few days off for Eid al-Adha, the festival celebrating Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son Ishmael. Hundreds of millions of animals were sacrificed for this event, but we’re out in the desert, far away from the festivities. I’ve spent most of the time working on my dissertation, but managed to do a little wandering in the desert and took the requisite animal photographs:
Here are a couple of the reconstructed fort at Kalet auom elmaa:
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Dr. Colleen Morgan (ORCID 0000-0001-6907-5535) is the Lecturer in Digital Archaeology and Heritage in the Department of Archaeology at the University of York. She conducts research on digital media and archaeology, with a special focus on embodiment, avatars, genetics and bioarchaeology. She is interested in building archaeological narratives with emerging technology, including photography, video, mobile and locative devices. Through archaeological making she explores past lifeways and our current understanding of heritage, especially regarding issues of authority, authenticity, and identity.
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Great Post as always! Thank you for your sensitivities to our cultural hosts where you, and other nationalities, me included, visit for our travels. Ms. Morgan, I hope you and husband are doing well. We are witnesses to the greatness of all that these countries are not just the past and the present, but the future as well.
I love your pictures and the sacrifices they have endured over the centuries.
a fan and student of yours a very old guy named fred.
LOVE those animal pictures! Terrific job.