I am a Senior Lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Manchester. Originally from Denmark, I was awarded an AHRC Block Grant to undertake PhD research at the University of Liverpool investigating subsistence strategies and craft production at the Ramesside fortress site of Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham. I obtained my PhD in 2016.
How a technique called portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) is being used to study ancient materials from Egypt and identify remnants of decoration which are either faint or entirely invisible to the eye.
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