Kea Johnston

@kjohnston.bsky.social

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I’m an Egyptologist and digital humanist. I obtained my PhD from UC Berkeley in 2022. I’m now a postdoctoral scholar working at the Field Museum and the ISAC Museum at the University of Chicago.

A small black crab on a concrete background.
A fish with human legs and a big fur coat. She’s dolled up in 1920’s style!
A painted figure of a girl with white eyes and a magic swirls around her hands.
A relief from a temple in Egypt showing Rameses II smiting a prisoner with a beard while walking on another one. It says: “I won Kadesh, by a lot” - Rameses II, 1274 BCE
A picture of Osiris rolled onto his belly on his bed and sitting up. His mummy wrappings are loose. Isis and nephthys are still mourning.
Scene from the cenotaph of Sety I (the Osireon) showing on the left side rows of mummies on lion-headed beds—they are labeled “the dead.”
Spell 89 from the papyrus of Nebseny, BM 9900. A cute line drawing shows the ba bird embracing the deceased, perched on his chest.
A human headed bird flies over a mummified person lying on a lion headed bed. The deceased’s wide eyes make him seem happy to see his soul.
A screenshot of the floral collar of an Egyptian coffin, which has been used to design wool mittens, shown before being sewn and on my hands
An Egyptian drawing on papyrus of a man with the head of a rabbit with knives in both hands
Selfie with a coffin that has a standing goddess on a red ground.
An unpainted straight slim wooden object with a curl at the bottom and two peg holes in the front.
A scene from a tomb with men driving gray donkeys
Two puppies, one red and white and the other white, sleeping next to a meter stick