Elsa Yvanez, Author at TexMeroe Project

Forty White Tobes

by Elsa Yvanez on May 16, 2018

The first day I came to the Copenhagen University, I happened upon a book seemingly waiting for me on a shelf of the Academic bookstore. Entitles “Khartoum at Night, Fashion and Body Politics in Imperial Sudan”, the essay is written by Mary Grace Brown, assistant professor of History at the University of Kansas. It retraces the history of women’s life in Norther Sudan from 1899 to 1956, focussing on the sharp evolutions of their bodily

Musings

Getting Started as a Marie Curie Postdoc

by Elsa Yvanez on May 10, 2018

Organisation central at my desk, CTR [photo E.Y.]

Here it is: you have signed your contract, (hopefully) found a decent place to live, got the keys to the

Research

Databases or the beauties of a «finds office»

by Elsa Yvanez on May 8, 2018

First research stay: German Archaeological Institute (DAI), Berlin For my first research stay, I didn’t go very far: just a

Research

Invisible craft? Textile tools and production

by Elsa Yvanez on May 2, 2018

I have been very fortunate in the past few years to work with archaeologists who understand the potential of textile

Research

The basics of Meroitic textiles

by Elsa Yvanez on April 29, 2018

Nubia and Sudan, thanks to their hyper-arid climatic conditions, are favourable to the preservation of organic materials. The two regions

Research

The Five W’s of the Meroitic Civilization

by Elsa Yvanez on April 18, 2018

Welcome to TexMeroe! The project started a few weeks ago and I am finally ready to kick-start this blog. So…yes, I will be talking about texiles and Meroe. If you have been reading and already wonder “What or where the heck is Meroe?” then this post is for you. Generally, when I talk about my work, I start by saying words like “Nile Valley”, “Antiquity”, “funerary textiles”… and very quickly people ask if I work

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