Program
Day 1: Sunday, 17 May 2026, Small Theater
10:00 am – 12:00 noon
Registration
12:00 noon – 2:00 pm
Opening Session
2:00 – 2:45 pm
Keynote Speaker: Hany Helal (UNESCO Chair in Science and Technology for Cultural Heritage – Cairo University)
Session 1: Reconstruction of Ancient Landscapes and Environments
Moderator: Tarek Tawfik, Cairo University
(UNESCO Chair in Science and Technology for Cultural Heritage – Cairo University)
3:00 – 3:20 pm
Unveiling the Lost Rivers of Meidum Pyramid: Reconstructing Egypt’s Ancient Waterscape
Eman Ghoneim (University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA) - Timothy J. Ralph (Macquarie University, Australia) - Suzanne Onstine (The University of Memphis, USA) - Raghda El-Behaedi (University of Missouri, USA) et al3:20 – 3:40 pm
Virtual Anastylosis: A 3D Reconstruction of the Unas Causeway as a 'Final Report' on Governance
Amira Sadik Ali, Ahmed Ali, Hamada Abdelsamad (Bibliotheca Alexandrina)3:40 – 4:00 pm
Mapping Ancient Memphis in Saqqara
Mohamed Megahed, Mohamed Osman (Czech Institute of Egyptology)4:00 – 4:20 pm
Capturing experiences, transmitting culture: New approaches to landscape archaeology research through eye-tracking experimentation
Antonio Muñoz Herrera (Universidad Complutense Madrid)4:20 – 4:40 pm (Online)
3D scanning at the Giza pyramids
Sarah Skytte (Museum Vest, Denmark)4:40 – 5:00 pm
Questions
Poster Session 1
5:00–6:00 pm
ACATEA Coptic Network Portal
Tommi Jauhiainen – Heidi Jauhiainen (University of Helsinki)The Ships of the Sea Peoples at Medinet Habu, Between Reconstruction and Redefinition
Giacomo Cavillier (Cairo University – Egyptology study Centre J.F. Champollion)Using Technology to Identify Repatriated
Aziza Mohammed – Hadeer Ahmed Belal (Egyptian Museum in Cairo)6:00 pm
Dinner (by invitation)
Day 2: Monday, 18 May 2026, Delegates Hall
Session 2: Technological methods in Language and Numismatics
Moderator: Ahmed Samir
(Bibliotheca Alexandrina)
9:30 – 9:50 am
HieroReco: Towards AI-assisted translation of Egyptian texts
Renata Landgráfová, Radek Mařík, Diana Míčková, Kristopher Molčan (Czech Institute of Egyptology)9:50 – 10:10 am
THOTH.AI: Democratizing Access to Ancient Egyptian and Coptic Texts Through Artificial Intelligence
So Miyagawa (University of Tsukuba)10:10 – 10:30 am
Restoring Ancient Texts with Language Models: Experimenting on The Egyptian Book of the Dead
Ling-Fei Lin (Indiana University Bloomington, USA)10:30 – 10:50 am
Tracing Cognates across Time: Cross-Stage Alignment in Ancient Egyptian Using Language Modelling
He Huang (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)10:50 – 11:10 am
Large-scale Ptolemaic coins die studies with artificial intelligence
Thomas Faucher, Clément Cornet, Héloïse Aumaïtre, Romaric Besançon, Julien Olivier, Hervé Le Borgne (Centre d'Études Alexandrines, CEAlex)11:10 – 11:30 am
Questions
11:30 – 12:00 am
Coffee Break
Session 3: Computational Linguistics in Egyptology: Standards, Metadata, and Democratized Access
Moderator: Stephen Vinson
(Indiana University Bloomington)
12:00 noon –12:20 pm
Medu Netcher: An updated methodology to write hieroglyphics
Marc Mateos Comaposada (Freelancer)12:20 – 12:40 pm
From Material to Metadata: Digitally Reassessing the British Museum Amduat Corpus
Christina Geisen (The British Museum)12:40 – 1:00 pm
The Operational Cycle of Clay Sealings in Lower Nubia during the Late Middle Kingdom: A GIS-Based Analysis of Mirgissa and Uronarti
Marzia Cavriani (University of Bologna)1:00 – 1:20 pm
Reconstructing the Evolution of Egyptian Scripts through Digital and Biomechanical Modeling
Christian Casey (Freie Universität Berlin)1:20 – 1:40 pm
Integrating Digital Fabrication and Immersive Technologies in Museum Exhibitions
Mohamed Ismail Ahmed Ibrahim (Ain Shams University)1:40 – 2:00 pm
Questions
2:00 – 3:00 pm
Lunch (by invitation)
Poster Session 2
3:00–4:00 pm
From Image to Origin: Hologram Technology and Supporting Awareness of Egyptian Antiquities Abroad
Hanan Ebeid (Al-Salam University)The Use of 3D Models to Document Ceramics From Archaeological Contexts: Experimenting with Low- and Medium-Cost Tools
Cristina Mondin (Università di Padova)Lotus Project
Ahmed Abdel-Halim (Independent Researcher)Bridging Disciplines: An AI-Driven Platform for Collaborative Documentation of Ancient Egyptian Heritage
Habiba Hussein El-Tayeb Cairo University Session 4: 3D Visualization of Submerged and Fragmented Landscap
Moderator: Dina Ezz-Eldin
(Alexandria University)
4:00 – 4:20 pm
First attempts at underwater photogrammetry in Alexandria-Egypt: Advancing 3D Modeling for the Study and Management of Submerged Cultural Heritage
Mohamed Elsayed, Mohamed Abdelaziz (Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities)4:20 – 4:40 pm
Comparative 3D Reconstruction of the Submerged Pharos of Alexandria Using SfM and 3D Gaussian Splatting
Mohamed Abdelaziz (Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities) - Isabelle Hairy (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)4:40 – 5:00 pm
The Epigraphic Archive of Egypt’s Nilometers: 3D Documentation of the Kom Ombo Nilometer
Ahmed Mansour (Bibliotheca Alexandrina) - Mohamed AbdelAziz (Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities)5:00 – 5:20 pm
From Fragmented Surveys to an integrated 3D Model: A Multi-Temporal Photogrammetric Approach at Umm al-Dabadib
Andrea Pasqui, Alessandro Mandelli, Clementina Caputo, Corinna Rossi (Politecnico di Milano)5:20 – 5:40 pm
A complex archaeological puzzle: Macro-Photogrammetry and Digital Reassembly of Bronze Plaques from Kom Bahig
Etienne Forestier, Filippo Mi (Centre d'Études Alexandrines "CEAlex")5:40 – 6:00 pm
Questions
Day 3: Tuesday, 19 May 2026, Delegates Hall
Session 5: Digital Storytelling: Immersive Narratives and & Public Engagement
Moderator: Stefania Mainieri
(Università di Napoli “L'Orientale”)
9:30 – 9:50 am (Online)
Reimagining Access: Digital Pathways to Inclusive Learning with Ancient Egyptian Collections
Elizabeth Minor (California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo) - Lissette Jimenez (San Francisco State University)9:50 – 10:10 am
Holograms and Heritage: Narrating Sacred Animals at the Crocodile Museum, Kom Ombo
Sara Kitat (Alexandria University) - Farag Ebeid (Minia University)10:10 – 10:30 am
Ancient Egypt in Video Games: Reconstruction and Simulation in Assassin’s Creed: Origins and Total War: Pharaoh — New Technologies in the Digital Reception of the Past
Mladen Tomorad (University of Zagreb, Croatia)10:30 – 10:50 am
Digital Puppetry as a Tool for Reviving Ancient Egyptian Narratives
Ahmed Hassan Emara (Millennium Educational Technologies)10:50 – 11:10 am
Beyond the Surface: A Framework for Holistic 3D Heritage in Egyptology
Matthias Lang (Bonn Center for Digital Humanities, University of Bonn) - Valentina Salcedo (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany)11:10 – 11:30 am
Questions
11:30 – 12:00 am
Coffee Break
Session 6: Digital Diagnostics: Non-invasive Analysis and 3D Documentation
Moderator: Maria Nuria Sanz
(Former Director of the UNESCO Regional Office for Egypt and Sudan)
12:00 noon –12:20 pm
Digital Diagnostics and 3D Scanning in the Conservation and Handling of the Museo Egizio’s Monumental Statues
Sara Aicardi, Federico Taverni, Eleonora Furgiuele (Fondazione Museo delle Antichità Egizie di Torino)12:20 – 12:40 pm
Methods for Digital Reconstruction of Archaeological Artifacts: An Examination of Tutankhamun's Rush-Work Chair
Moamen Othman, Mohamed Ragab, Ahmed Tarek, Mohamed Abdelrahman, Eid Mertah, Mohamed Ibrahim, Islam Shahin (Grand Egyptian Museum)12:40 – 1:00 pm
Inside the wrappings: imaging animal mummies
Marie Vandenbeusch, Emma Phillips, Daniel O’Flynn (The British Museum)1:00 – 1:20 pm
The research as a ‘living being’: From Faces Revealed Project to RecoGnISe Project
Stefania Mainieri (Università di Napoli 'L'Orientale') - Gabriele Guidi, Fairman Risch (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA)1:20 – 2:00 pm
Questions
2:00 – 3:00 pm
Lunch (by invitation)
Session 7: Digital Frontiers in Heritage: Innovation, Access, and Public Engagement
Moderator: Azza Ezzat
(Bibliotheca Alexandrina)
3:00 – 3:20 pm
Defining the Future of Digital Epigraphy: an examination of development, concerns, and potential methodologies
Ariel Singer (Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo)3:20 – 3:40 pm
Evaluating LLMs for Machine Translation of Coptic
So Miyagawa (The University of Tsukuba) - Mona Sawy (Assiut University)3:40 – 4:00 pm
From Coffins to Code: Toward a Digital Corpus of Egyptian Coffin Inscriptions
Cosimo Ragone (University of California, Berkeley)4:00 – 4:20 pm (Online)
Re-encountering Egypt: The Human Value of Museum Experiences in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Rita Lucarelli (University of California, Berkeley)4:20 – 4:40 pm (Online)
Ancient Ink Analysis through a New Technology: “Adapted AIRLAB-MS”
Leah Packard-Grams, Liam McEvoy (UC Berkeley)4:40 – 5:00 pm
Questions
Multi-Purpose Room
Session 8: Data Ethics, FAIR Principles & Inclusive Access
Moderator: Hussin Basir
(Bibliotheca Alexandrina)