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Ancient historian, archaeologist, writer, lecturer at The Open University. All things Pompeii, Rome, and epigraphy. https://pompeiinetworks.wordpress.com/
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UK universities contribute over £265 billion to the UK economy annually There were 240,420 academic staff & 398,170 total staff (FT & PT) employed at UK universities in 22/23 Screaming into a void though, if only we weren't all lazy woke feminist Marxists trying to destroy the brains of the young

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New on the @isawlibrary.bsky.social news blog: McKee, Gabriel. “Archaeological Tourism in Mark Twain’s ‘Innocents Abroad.’” Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, February 14, 2025, sec. news. isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog....

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I do love wry sceptics on #ValentinesDay. Below the famous graffito on this fresco in the House of the Lovers in #Pompeii —‘Lovers, like bees, enjoy a honeyed life’— two responses were added ‘Lovers, lovers, why do you need them?’ and ‘I wish’.

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Who else wants this as a chess set? 👀

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As a fellow local I concur… especially this morning with the new maple pecan muffins which tasted just like the pecan waffles I always make for my parents whenever I visit. Absolute food nostalgia in muffin form. Massive #tinyjoys

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Ooh… good reason for another Turkish holiday. Perge is already such a gorgeous site to visit.

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We're celebrating, as ever, the start of Super Bowl 2025 with this Superb Owl. 🦉

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Getting up before 4:30 am is totally better than a 24 hour flight, right? 🥱 #ASCS2025

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Possibly fleeing a Vesuvius eruption 2,000 years before the AD79 eruption! News - Bronze Age Trackway Discovered in Italy - Archaeology Magazine

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I’ve spent many enjoyable hours with Hamilton’s accounts of Vesuvius, stunning both for the discussion of volcanic activity and very blatant racism/colonialism for south Italians. If you work on this region it strikes me as a must read. It inadvertently explains much about the history of discovery.

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Petition · Save Cardiff University Ancient History Degree - United Kingdom · Change.org search.app/mhvkW7kfKfNX...

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Clear-sighted reading of exactly what these cuts mean in practice for Arts and Humanities at Cardiff. A grim picture.

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Happy Year of the Snake! 🐍 Antiquity's fascination with snakes arises from myths and religious practices. In Egypt, they symbolized power and protection. In Greece, they were sacred to Asclepius and wrapped around his staff. Romans saw them as symbols of renewal and immortality.

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'Roman strategy game pieces discovered in Hadrianopolis, Turkey'

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I love this relief b/c you can’t read this inscription and maintain the traditional oh yes all women working in Roman inns were sex-workers. (And yes I reference it in a forthcoming article exactly on this topic.)

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📢 Calling all historians and researchers! The Women's History Network is now accepting abstracts for its 33rd Annual Conference, themed "Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Personal Collections." More info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... #WomensHistory #GLAM

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👀 Ancient Roman breastfeeding guidelines were followed closely in the cities—but not the hinterlands. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Meep.

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Bar night for Cupid.

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

This. Isn’t it time to rethink how academia shuts so many great scholars out of grants and other research positions simply because the whole system is broken?

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I'm pretty sure posts like this one are why the internet was even invented.

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How could our #FindsFriday be anything other than these beautiful earrings recently unearthed in Pompeii?✨🦪🏺 Photo credits: Tony Jolliffe/BBC

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Bath time! Such a stunning example of private luxury in #Pompeii. I think we're going to need a lot of bubbles. #AncientRome www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Someone appears - finally - to have read Pedar Foss’s brilliant book “Pliny and the Eruption of Vesuvius” (2022). www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

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It's ritual! #archaeology 🏺

submitted 75 days ago • 15 comments

It’s your Monday morning astonishing artifact! 🏺🧪

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100% would watch this film. #gladiator2 youtu.be/HC77saWLRMk?...

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A special mosaic for #MosaicMonday. Mosaic from the Anchor House at Pompeii depicting an anchor made of lead and wood of the type found at Nemi in the 1930s (Caligula's ship). Currently on display at Museo delle Navi Romane di Nemi. #Rome #archaeology #history AncientBlueSky

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