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Hold the phone!! 🤩 We've tipped over 10k followers!! 😃😍🥳 That's all the excuse we need to re-post our Death Star-Hypocaust film, because you can see it too often. Thanks to everyone for making it such fun getting here. 😘😘

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If you watch the video it’s considerably worse. He clearly says “Well, I’m, we are the federal law.” He says I’m initially. Maybe that shouldn’t be omitted from the quote in the body of the article @kutv2news.bsky.social?

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Update this conversation is rescheduled to 830 UK time/330 EST. So in a few hours!

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#AncientBluesky

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Hey, people who study Ancient Greek religion; just a brief reminder that the NPAGR collaborative working group exists and we would love to have new members! #ClassicsBluesky

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“The ARCHES platform…was used to develop the customized EAMENA database (database.eamena.org). The data within the EAMENA database includes locations of heritage places, actual and potential threats, interpretation of the site’s function, and in some cases descriptions of the sites.” #AncientBluesky

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Sharing the CFP for the LCC-sponsored panel at next year's SCS. "Queerness Beyond Identity," organized by Nicolette D'Angelo (UCLA) and Erin Lam (UCSB). Deadline for abstracts: March 1. Please share widely!

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When he declares himself king, he is insulting you—and the nation. You have rights. The government is YOURS. And our loyalty is to the Constitution—the profound and fundamental essence of our nation. Not him. True patriots don’t bow down to kings.

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LIVESTREAM tomorrow at 4pm UK/11am EST with Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid (@moudhy.bsky.social) We will dig into cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia and the world's first stories about the fantastic people who lived in Ur, Babylon, and elsewhere youtube.com/live/ox7FOvK...

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“This is nice behaviour, that I write to you again and again, and you pay no attention to me.” This almost 4,000-year-old Babylonian letter in clay is proof that we have been finding ways to say “per my last email” for some time

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Egyptologists have discovered the tomb of King Thutmose II, who ruled three-and-a-half thousand years ago. A British-Egyptian team located it in the Western Valleys of the Theban Necropolis near the city of Luxor.

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Bronze statue to be returned to Türkiye from Cleveland Museum of Art. Are there implications for other material handled by George Zakos? lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2025/02/clev...

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There’s an even fancier flyer now, including a handy QR code.

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Now that we are an official educational society, Peopling the Past can now accept donations! If you like what we do, please consider donating so that we can produce more content for you all 💛

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As an aside, you can learn more about these sling bullets and others in L. Keppie's recent Slingers and Sling Bullets in the Roman Civil Wars of the Late Republic (2023). I have a review of it coming at some point in BMCR, but it's quite good.

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These are fighting words.

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🧵 #AncientBluesky

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Oh my. #ClassicalReception

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Ooh, Hemera

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Too soon.

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Athenian US citizens in allies in 2025 CE 454 BCE 🤝 Growing concern over the Treasury

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Online MERL event, I repeat, we have online MERL event! This is the biggest art news since the hog went cosmic!

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Sam Mirelman, ISAW Alumnus Class of 2018 and Swiss National Science Foundation Research Fellow at the University of Geneva (Switzerland), has published his new book "The Performance of Balaĝ and Eršema Prayers in the Late First Millennium BC." Read more here:

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Colin Renfrew obituary: archaeologist who shifted thinking on how societies evolve www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Please sign and share this student-led petition to save Ancient History here at Cardiff University www.change.org/p/save-cardi...

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Well, this is exciting! On March 21st, I'll be at @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social, discussing what it meant to be a woman entering that most masculine of spaces - the Roman arena. Do come along if you're in the area, I'd love to see you! www.dorsetmuseum.org/whats-on/wom...

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🧵 #AncientBluesky

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Ridiculously happy to have acquired an honest to goodness pair of good old-fashioned boot cut jeans. Not wide leg, not flare, not fit-a-whole-person-in-one-leg, just a nice little baby boot cut. Yes, I’m that old. #TinyJoys

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One month left to visit "Mapping an Uneven Path: Stories of Health and Disability at Verulamium". Photos show: Coins depicting Salus the Roman Goddess of safety and welfare Visitors watching "In Our Hands" film Herbs for Health Victorian catalogue #verulamiummuseum

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We made a timeline of everything that’s happened in human history using only Iron Maiden songs | Louder www.loudersound.com/features/iro...

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The @cigicg.bsky.social is proud to offer the Dr. Leander Tryphonas Study in Greece Bursary. This merit-based bursary aims to support undergraduates who have reason to travel to Greece, and to promote diversity on projects and study tours. Deadline: 1 March Details: www.cac-scec.ca/2025/01/tryp...

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I entirely forgot that a short programme about ancient Greek writer of history Pamphila of Epidauros, with @naomialderman.bsky.social in the chair and me commenting, was broadcast yesterday and can be heard here. Women are intellectuals, too! bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Them: Life's ambition? Me: Built-in bookcases.

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i cannot emphasize enough how much I think professional historians should monitor and post on r/AskHistorians the questions are good and the discussions are serious and you reach a big audience

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On today’s episode of Ancient Office Hours, Lexie is joined by Robin Pierson, host of The History of Byzantium podcast, to discuss creating his show, challenges/joys of podcasting a complex period of history, and the lack of representation of Byzantine history in popular media.

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Really chuffed that our publication of the gorgeous Scremby Cup has been selected as cambridgeuparchaeo.bsky.social paper of the month ☺️ With Roman enamelwork 🏺, an Anglo-Saxon burial ☠️ and of course lard 🐷, there's a bit of something for everyone! And it's free to download for the next 30 days

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Today on The Reading Party Podcast, Megan and Lexie are joined by @vickyausten.bsky.social to dive into the 2014 action-adventure film "Pompeii". Join them as they explore the film's blend of romance, action, and historical disaster, all set against the backdrop of the infamous volcanic eruption.

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Please spread the word as we have opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships which enable researchers to work for two years at a UK institution. If you fancy being away from your country right now this could be an option! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...

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Nouvel article sur le carnet | Virils, les gladiateurs du XXᵉ siècle ? antiquipop.hypotheses.org/16041

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“The question we posited is…Did seal imagery play a significant role in shaping the earliest writing signs in this region? To answer this, we…compared cylinder seal motifs with proto-cuneiform symbols, seeking…correlations in both shape and content.” #AncientBluesky 🏺 anetoday.org/writing-sout...

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Just in case whoever it was reading through all my old blogposts yesterday was looking for something up to date about Trump and Thucydides... thesphinxblog.com/2025/01/21/r...

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