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Dr. Leah Mascia coordinated the collaborative effort to conserve, identify, and interpret the heavily degraded text, revealing the first known example of a literary work serving a functional role in Egyptian mummification. Her analysis of the packet\u2019s seals and folding patterns shows how Greek and Egyptian traditions converged under Roman rule\u2014raising questions about whether Homeric poetry offered the deceased protection, affirmed cultural identity and status, or helped guide the journey into the afterlife.\n\nDr. Leah Mascia is a postdoctoral researcher at the Egyptological Seminar of the Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin and former head of Research Field B \u201cInscribing Spaces\u201d at the Cluster of Excellence \u201cUnderstanding Written Artefacts,\u201d Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Universit\u00e4t Hamburg.\n\nKelsey Museum Flash Talks are 15-minute Zoom lectures by curators, staff members, researchers, graduate students, and guests talking about their recent research or current projects. Each presentation is followed by 15 minutes of Q&A. 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Drawing on the new co-authored volume, *Heritage Forensics: Cultural on the Front Lines of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict*, the presentation examines how cultural sites became entangled in the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh during the interwar period (1994-2020). The talk considers how satellite-based heritage forensics is being deployed prospectively, to monitor hundreds of Armenian sites in Karabakh following Azerbaijan's 2023 takeover of the region and the displacement of its Armenian population. In doing so, it asks: how can satellite-based monitoring function as a form of \"counter-forensics,\" turning surveillance technologies developed for military purposes back on the state? Can heritage forensics move us beyond retrospective documentation to actively deter erasure and support truth, reconciliation, and accountability wherever cultural heritage is at stake?\n\nLori Khatchadourian is Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Anthropology at Cornell University, and co-founder and co-director of Caucasus Heritage Watch. She currently serves as Director of the Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies. Khatchadourian\u2019s research spans the fields of archaeology, social anthropology, and heritage studies, with a particular focus on Armenia, the wider South Caucasus, and neighboring regions. Current projects explore the archaeology of modernity, including problems of genocide, deindustrialization, and the entanglements of cultural heritage and war. 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