As many of you know, I am not only passionately interested in ancient history but, as an education technologist, I continue to explore new technologies and how they can be used to promote the study of the ancient world.

Alexa is a virtual assistant developed by Amazon that uses artificial intelligence to perform numerous tasks like music playback, making to-do lists, setting alarms, playing games, streaming podcasts, playing audiobooks, serving as an intercom, and providing weather, [...]

“He came to Egypt, to the mouth of the Nile called the Canopic mouth, and to the Salters'. Now there was (and still is) on the coast a temple of Heracles … They laid this accusation before the priests and the warden of the Nile mouth, whose name was Thonis.”
—Herodotus, Histories 2.113

A monumental statue from Thonis Photo: Christoph Gerigk. Franck Goddio/Hilti Foundation.

Herodotus's account of the detainment of Helen and Paris in Egypt [...]

A team headed by Francesco Porcelli of the Polytechnic University of Turin conducted the third investigation into whether Queen Nefertiti's tomb is located on the other side of Tutankhamun's burial chamber. Photo: Hajor/CC BY-SA 3.0.

What lies behind King Tutankhamun's burial chamber in Egypt's Valley of the Kings? Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves made waves in 2015 when he published a paper proposing that there were two sealed-off rooms behind the north and west [...]