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Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology

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Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology

The Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology is a Tennessee Center of Excellence. It is a component of the Department of Art at The University of Memphis, in Memphis, Tennessee (USA). The IEAA is dedicated to the study of the art, history and culture of ancient Egypt through teaching, research, exhibition, and community education. 

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Dr. Darcy Hackley

Interim Director

Curator of Egyptian Art and Assistant Professor of Practice, Department of Art and Design

Dr. Hackley teaches courses on Egyptian Art and Archaeology as well as Museum Studies. Her interests include the archaeology of the ancient Egyptian landscape, especially in arid zones.
She has active research projects in Egypt and Türkiye.

Dr. Joshua Roberson

Assistant Director

Associate Professor of Art History, Department of Art and Design

Dr. Roberson teaches Egyptian language and offers courses on ancient Egyptian literature, history and archaeology. His research interests include religion and mortuary literature, cryptography, seals and seal impressions, digital epigraphy, and 3D modelling of objects and spaces. 

 


The Egyptian Gallery is open. 

 

 

Coming up:
Dr. Kea Johnston on Photogrammetry 

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Location: Art and Communication Bldg. Room 310

Paid parking is available in the Fogelman Garage

Workshop 1pm
ACB 310
Introduction to Photogrammetry

This workshop will cover the process of photogrammetry from image capture to final model.  

Lecture 5:30pm (refreshments at 5:00pm)
ACB 310
"Taming Photogrammetry with Python, Cameras, and Meroitic Pots"

Three-dimensional models of museum artifacts have proven useful for conservation, research, and public outreach.  These models have applications from making custom mounts and detailed replicas to generating views of objects which would be otherwise unobtainable.  However, it is hard to digitize large corpuses. The methods for doing so are either too expensive and difficult to scale (laser scanning and structured light scanning) or slow and skill-dependent (photogrammetry). This levcture discusses the process of automating photogrammetry through the lens of the systematic digitization of Meroitic pots at the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) Museum. The challenges of digitizing a large corpus of material are discussed, as well as tips and tricks that can be used to make future digitization projects faster and more efficient. 

Kea Johnston is an Egyptologist who also specializes in technology. She currently holds the position of Joint Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Chicago’s Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) and the Field Museum. Her research interests focus on the interplay between scribal practice and religion in the creation of funerary art in Egypt in the first millennium BCE.
At ISAC and the Field Museum, she mainly works on digital imaging. As part of her postdoctoral work, she has digitized a large collection of painted meiotic pottery and has worked on building and 3D printing artifact replicas. She is currently writing scripts to standardize and expedite the process for building 3D models and processing digital photography.