/2010/06/29/wilbour-and-the-stela-of-the-seven-years-famine-part-ii/ Technology blog of the Brooklyn Museum Fri, 04 Apr 2014 18:19:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.3 /2010/06/29/wilbour-and-the-stela-of-the-seven-years-famine-part-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-1502 Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:16:11 +0000 /bloggers/2010/06/29/wilbour-and-the-stela-of-the-seven-years%e2%80%99-famine-part-ii/#comment-1502 Thanks for all this info on Wilbour – fascinating! PLUS: could you contact me? Cannot find an e-mail address other than the blog contact – sorry about that!
Best,
K.

]]> /2010/06/29/wilbour-and-the-stela-of-the-seven-years-famine-part-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-1484 Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:07:38 +0000 /bloggers/2010/06/29/wilbour-and-the-stela-of-the-seven-years%e2%80%99-famine-part-ii/#comment-1484 Wilbour’s forward-thinking approach and use of contemporary technologies is notable, as was his focus on dissemination of the material. One wonders how long it would have been before the Famine stela would have been published had he not been so enthusiastic in sharing his find. Collaboration, particularly considering the technologies we have available in our era (such as relational databases, advanced statistical software, pattern recognition, ground penetrating radar, etc.), is an essential part of research. Egyptologists (and other specialists) should endeavor to follow his example and encourage a free flow of information between colleagues rather than inadvertently hoarding research, which results in separated silos of data that are incapable of being integrated.

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