Beautiful presentation by our dear colleague A/Prof Boyo Ockinga, ‘From fragments, an identity emerges: Amenmose, owner of Theban Tomb 149 at Dra Abu el-Naga, #Egypt’, hosted by Dr Karin Sowada (Dr Karin Sowada) for the Australian Centre for #Egyptology’s National Archaeology Week lecture

So so many different avenues to pursue in #archaeology! The sub-disciplines are as various as the history we are studying! Thanks for the advice @the_other_kim #AMAMQNAW22 #2022NAW

More great answers/advice from 🏳️‍🌈 Crystal 💀 coming in for our #AskMeAnything #AMAMQNAW22 in answer to how can we be involved in #archaeology if we aren't in the field...

Fantastic turnout at our National Archaeology Week Professional Archaeology Forum Macquarie University today! Thanks to all our panellists for sharing their time & experience w. our awesome students! Thanks to our hosts Dr Susan Lupack & Pamela Kottaras, & to our on-campus / online audience! 👏

This. Can I call myself an Archaeologist if I'm not physically digging for ruins? I think so. 🤔

We've been celebrating #2022NAW w schools all week & tomoz we're heading out with our pals Macquarie University Widening Participation for #UniversityExperienceDay Macquarie University History and Archaeology archaeologists, can you tell us what the best thing about your job is & we'll spread the word with students tomoz! Dr Karin Sowada Susan Lupack

👏Yes! Couldn't agree more, finding physical connections between the past and present is always humbling & "wow"👏 AND shout out to Macquarie University History and Archaeology students there for pt2!

Studying the Past Macquarie University Widening Participation Macquarie University History and Archaeology Susan Lupack Susan Lupack is right - I’ve never lost the sense of wonder when ‘touching’ the past & creating new knowledge about humanity through archaeological, scientific and theoretical enquiry 😀

A very special event Macquarie University for National Archaeology Week, an Object Handling Workshop in collaboration with ASMU - Archaeology Society of Macquarie University & Macquarie University History Museum. Brilliantly led by @archaeology_ec & Lana Dewan (ArtingtheAncients), attended by students & staff from across the campus! 🙌🏺 #2022NAW

🙌🏼 amazing Trevor Evans How lucky are we that THIS is our job!!#2022NAW

It's not too late to register for the 6th Australasian #Egyptology Conference #AEC6 starting 9 June! Registrations now extended to 3 June Go to mq.edu.au/research/resea…

Another week, another lecture from @raylaurence1 on #Pompeii!! The Forum this time for students from Oberon High School. Always great to have students on campus and exploring Macquarie University History Museum & learning from our stellar Macquarie University History and Archaeology staff

Today we worked with yr 7 at Swansea High School in their #AncientHistory room classroom which features ✨amazing ✨history murals painted by students! Wow wow wow!! Macquarie University History and Archaeology thoughts on us painting the Arts Precinct tute rooms? 🙃

We have been very quite on here lately. However, we're back in a big way! This week, co-coordinator, Hannah Vogel, has joined Macquarie University Widening Participation out at Broken Hill to give students 'taster programs' in history and archaeology.😎📚👩‍🏫 #regionalandremote #highereducation

Our global expert on ancient Near Eastern art, archaeology & culture, Prof. Javier Álvarez-Mon, presented an analysis of the winged ‘guardian angel’ from Pasargade, Iran, in: “Gateway to Paradise: Genesis of Persian Art & the New Globalization” at the DHA Research Seminar today.

We were thrilled to welcome year 12 students from Al Amanah college on campus last week for our very first #ModernHistory program! Students explored the Macquarie University History Museum, heard from Keith Rathbone on fascist Italy, and analysed archival sources in our interactive workshop.