Dr. Briana Jackson

Dr. Briana Jackson (born August 15) is an Egyptologist who makes videos about ancient Egypt and the Near East.
==Personal life==
Briana has a PhD in Egyptian art and archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, having graduated in May 2021. She teaches at two universities.
Briana has two cats named Topaz and Bagheera. Briana used to work at a library. She has epilepsy.
==Series==
===Archaeogaming ===
These are videos where Briana plays video games set in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. Briana’s first video, uploaded on August 7, 2020, was one of these videos.
 involves playing through games and commenting on them from a professional perspective, adding education to the experience. Briana’s target audience is fellow gamers who enjoy watching Let's Plays in general and hope to observe and be entertained by a new perspective of playthroughs. Academically, she is interested in city and society builder games and the ways in which they demonstrate the development of "the state" and urbanization, and how archaeology, is incorporated into the game series as a means of lore- and world-building. Briana is an advocate for bringing game developers into the discourse of archaeogaming to discuss their views on the discipline, and how their games are being consumed academically and critically.
===Object Stories===
These videos examine ancient Egyptian artifacts. The first episode, Object Stories -- Episode 1: Predynastic Pottery, was uploaded on October 12, 2020.
===Ancient Lives on the Nile===
This series explores themes in ancient Egyptian history and society. The videos are approximately 30-minutes long, and inspired by television documentary formats, specifically . It incorporates narrations, interviews, and readings from ancient sources. The first three episodes concern international relationships of the Bronze Age, from the perspective of ancient Egypt, which is one of Briana's primary research interests. The first episode, EGYPTIANIZING and OTHERING (Episode 1, Ancient Lives on the Nile), was uploaded on July 9, 2021.
==Trivia==
*In January 2018, Briana published a Walkthrough guide for the game .
==References==
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