Magic, Science & Mystery
4. August 2024
Following the great success of his presentation “Stargate and Ancient Egypt” at FedCon 31, media journalist and non-fiction author Reinhard Prahl now goes one step further and takes a closer look at the exciting topic of archaeology in fantastic films. How much of the knowledge presented to us by Indiana Jones or Evelyn Carnah in The Mummy is based on hard facts? And what comes from the screenwriters’ pure imagination? Is there even such a thing as treasure hunters in archaeology, and if so, who are they and how do they work? Did you know, for example, that there is a “real Indiana Jones” in Egyptology? That the search for lost cities is not just a myth? That there are still immeasurable riches just waiting to be unearthed by experts? But how exactly is this done? What exactly does an archaeologist do and why? And what do mummies tell us about life in antiquity?
Reinhard Prahl explores these and other questions in his one-hour lecture. He takes you into a world in which fact and fiction sometimes seem to blur, albeit in a different way than you might think.
Lecturer: Reinhard Prahl
Duration: 60 min - The Lecture will be held in: germanReinhard Prahl has been a journalist since 1999 and has since written numerous articles on the topics of Egyptology, ancient history and anthropology for various magazines and internet portals. In 2013, the author specialized in media journalism and has since written for Geek! magazine, TV-Klassiker, FedCon INSIDER, serienjunkies.de and planettrek.de, among others. He is also co-author of the non-fiction books Es lebe Captain Future, Es lebe Firefly, Auf der Suche nach der Mutterkultur, the popular series Die Star Trek Chronik and Die Akte X Chronik, which he writes together with his friends and colleagues Björn Sülter and Thorsten Walch. Together with Ivar Leon Menger and other colleagues, he also developed and wrote the audio blockbuster Die schwarze Stadt and is the author of the novel series Das Ruhrstadtuniversum.
