Elizabeth Leaning

she/her ✨ PhD Candidate at Waipapa Taumata Rau 🇳🇿 Egyptologist (Old Kingdom) 𓁣 archaeoastronomy & game studies 🪐also has thoughts about space

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

Total Solar Eclipse Livestream https://t.co/3t5JTxy6S6

[Dr Marina Escolano-Poveda 🌊🪔 @HypatiaHeuresis]

A Demotic reference to eclipses 🌚🌞:
nꜣ sẖ-nsw n Kšꜣ nty rḫ nꜣ šꜥ.w n pꜣ 5 sbꜣ ꜥnḫ ḥnꜥ gm wš n ı͗r ꜣb.t n pꜣ rꜥ ı͗ꜥḥ
"... the royal scribes of Kush, who know the risings of the 5 living stars (planets) and finding the time of being eclipsed of the Sun and Moon"

[sophia of hangover @aethelfleds]

Some will never know the satisfaction of being a historian and alerting your history friends when their niche interests are mentioned in something. "your man's here" and it's saint Hugh of Lincoln

[Elizabeth Leaning @archaeo_astro]

Really excited to be contributing to this!!

[Elizabeth Leaning @archaeo_astro]

“Undersky” and “To-and-Fro Canal” show up, like, twice in the Pyramid Texts so I thought this scan for astronomical terms was going to go quickly until I remembered it’s a religious text (thank you Thoth and your 121 mentions 😭)

[Scott Bryan @scottygb]

Americans, may I introduce you to this little British show called Only Connect?

[oscadysseus @_onthewayjay]

would be so funny it’s a genuine adaptation of the books and it totally alienates anyone who’s only a fan of the movies

[Brittany. @artistfuly]

i love ancient studies and baldurs gate 3.

[laur 🍉 @evil_foetus]

selena gomez type celebrities that claim that speaking out wouldn’t do anything are so stupid . gay youtubers raised 83k in two hours

[stellar sorcerer @stellarsorcerer]

brennan lee mulligan and izzy roland had a baby and brennan decided the way he was going to tell the public about her was during an extremely involved bit in a commentary/recap episode covering an actual play d&d podcast episode hosted on patreon

[Elizabeth Leaning @archaeo_astro]

In a never-before-seen turn of events, the German guy who published on my exact same topic before I was born and who I didn't know about until after I'd started writing did NOT in fact write all of my thoughts word for word so I CAN keep writing a thesis!

[Elizabeth Leaning @archaeo_astro]

@c_schwartz2000 OMG I LOVE HIM ❤️

[Elizabeth Leaning @archaeo_astro]

@c_schwartz2000 Congratulations!!!

[Asymptote Journal @asymptotejrnl]

Palestinian-American theorist and activist Edward Said was born #OTD in 1935. His most famous work, Orientalism, explores how Western scholarship projects “otherness” on the Islamic world to justify colonial policy. His political works about the Middle East remain relevant today.

[Res_Australes: Ancient World Studies, Australasia @res_australes]

Including Elizabeth Leaning, University of Auckland @archaeo_astro on “The Worst of All Ancient Curses”: the Legitimacy of the “Hom-Dai” as a Theoretical Ancient Egyptian Punishment:

[ISSE @issegyptomania]

The first paper in panel 5 is by Elizabeth Leaning with ‘Evolving Egyptomania: Egyptology and Reception in Heaven's Vault’ #ISSE2023 #Egyptomania

[ISSE @issegyptomania]

This weekend… ISSE Virtual conference!Introducing Panel 5: Modern Media 1: Podcasts, Music & Games

Tickets, abstracts, bios & info: https://t.co/xdoo5EJUeo

[Erika  @ExploreCosmos_]

Asteroid Apophis is coming back.

Apophis stands out as the most dangerous asteroid that passes close to our planet.
In March 2021, it had a close encounter with Earth, and it's poised to return in 2029.
During its 2029 closest approach, Apophis will pass within.... 1/