Cite the deep magic to me, witch. I was there when it was written and I think it’s important to credit our sources.

*talking to teenage militant atheist self* current me: okay so there’s a big fight between the government and the catholic church teenage me: got it, so we’re obviously on the side of the government current me: I, uh, you might want to sit down for this one

For #MosaicMonday and #Easter Monday a lovely image of a #rabbit, a detail from a mosaic showing Orpheus surrounded by enchanted #animals. Found in Antioch, modern-day Antakya, Türkiye. Dating 4th c. AD. On display at Museum Kestner Hannover. 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

More on the weaponization of archaeology. Archaeology does not "turn political," it is and always has been inherently political. In cases of conflict and genocide, archaeology's political nature is easily weaponized through both destruction and control/preservation: 1/3 🏺

I always wonder - usually in vain - just how big auction houses determine provenance information. Thanks to the Epstein Files, we can see exactly how a seemingly rock-solid provenance was built on shifting sands for this Hercules. 🧵

Tapping the sign

In Deutschland ist kaum noch etwas sicher, das antidemokratische Strukturen und vor allem den Rechtsextremismus bekämpft. Auf allen Ebenen werden die finanziellen Grundlagen für Kultur- & Bildungsarbeit politisch zerstört. Das ist nicht mehr "vorautoritär" – wir sind schon mittendrin.

Ich will nicht, dass Syrer das Land verlassen. Ich will, dass AfD-Abgeordnete die Parlamente verlassen.

I spent the weekend in Halle to see the new Shamanism exhibition at @landesmuseumhalle.bsky.social. Very interesting, highly recommend! I didn't take as many photos as I planned but here are some impressions (spot the forbidden gummy bear and the so-called world's oldest smile): 🏺

it’s beautiful that historians and archaeologists and archivists can all bond over how our disciplines are constantly misunderstood as “directly extrapolating the past from the source material” tbh

can you imagine if Mansa Musa ever met donald trump

Anonymous Swiss collection

Statt ein AfD-Verbot zu prüfen, prüft man lieber "Demokratie leben". Mehr muss man über diese Regierung nicht wissen.

Wenn der Sprit mal zu hoch ist, bekommen wir zwei Wochen später Maßnahmen zur Senkung im Bundestag. Wenn seit Jahren die Lebenserhaltungskosten immer weiter steigen, überlegt diese Regierung sogar, diese durch mehr Mehrwertsteuer zu erhöhen. Keine Pointe.

A student of mine is looking for the best sourcebook on Greek enslavement - any recs? #ClassicsBluesky

Gewalt gegen Frauen wird überwiegend von 1 bestimmten Personengruppe verübt: von Männern. Wir laufen täglich durch diese Welt & wissen genau, woher die Gefahr kommt. Das allgegenwärtige Risiko, dem wir ausgesetzt sind, für Rassismus instrumentalisieren, während man politisch nix dagegen tut: Schäbig

Anyone in the #ClassicalReception team to write on this for Antiquipop? 🏛️

Die CDU macht jetzt einfach gezielt Projekte dicht, aus denen sie kritisiert wurde. Flankiert von einer Kampagnenpolitik von ganz rechts außen. Es gibt keine Rechtfertigung für diese autoritäre Willkür. 1/2 www.tagesschau.de/investigativ...

Das Grundproblem der SPD ist nicht das Personal und auch keine Metaebene von links/rechts, sondern dass sie schon mit dem Kompromiss in die Verhandlungen geht. Sie traut sich nichts zu wollen oder zu fordern. Und wer nichts will bekommt auch nix. Niemand hat das Gefühl, dass sie für irgendwas steht.

Absolutely abhorrent. Also very surprising to see authors like @nikitagill.bsky.social on the list.

Destruction of cultural heritage is not tangential to other genocidal acts, it is itself a crucial tactic of genocide that seeks to erase the very history of a people on the lands they call home 🏺

Würde mir wünschen, dass mehr Männer hellhörig werden, wenn Kollegen sexistische Sprüche klopfen. Wenn Freunde abwertend über ihre Partnerin reden. Wenn Kumpels den Feminismus als Bedrohung darstellen. Das ist auch Eure Baustelle.

My headcanon: Tut was just a boy loving duckies. Duck tunic, duck walking stick, duck earrings. I know this looks more like a goose but I still count it. 🏺

German colonial legacy is generally underdiscussed, especially in the country itself. I can not remember encountering the topic in school for example. The shadow of colonial violence is long and too little work is being done to try to rectify what little can be.

Schon wieder Wolfram Weimer… Jetzt kippt er den Erweiterungsbau der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek in Leipzig. Dringend benötigt, lange geplant, Millionen in die Planung investiert und nun: Alles futsch. Was treibt diesen Mann an? Ein Thread über einen Kulturstaatsminister und seine Mission. 🧵

Not The Art Newspaper publishing a hand-wringing piece about how badly the new EU import rules for cultural objects effect dealers. 🏺

This International Women's Day, please remember that trans women are women. Full stop. No qualifiers.

Die Forschungsministerin freut sich auf Insta darüber, dass jetzt "Porträts" von Frauen der Geschichte in ihrem Haus hängen. Nur: Die sind mit KI erstellt. Und schleifen die Gesichter der Frauen gemäß moderner westlicher Schönheitsideale glatt. Was für ein irres Projekt Z.B.

Booked the last little holiday before baby gets here, exclusively to see the Shamanism exhibit opening in late March at the @landesmuseumhalle.bsky.social. Very excited to see what the museum has put together! 🏺

Extreme Long shot but, if anyone visited the Permanent Exhibition at the National Museum of Finland between 1995-2016 and has any pictures of the interpretation panels/display/presentation of the Suontaka sword then I'd be extremely grateful for copies! Many thanks!

🏺 Anyone know of confirmed primate butchery sites (primates being butchered by hominins) known from Middle or Lower Palaeolithic 🍖🪨🐒 - I remember claimed geladas bone smashing at Olorgesaillie, but anything else? #HumanOrigins

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

"How can you oppose war when Khamenei was evil?" Simple. If you killed Donald Trump by nuking Washington DC, I would not mourn Trump but I'd still say you're an evil war criminal who belongs in the Hague. It's really not hard.

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

Even babies were buried in unique liquid-gypsum-filled coffins in Roman Britain. 🧪🏺

This is my thought about a lot of gen AI applications. You let ChatGPT write your wedding vows? Your college essay? Your job application? You clearly don't actually want to get married / graduated / hired. Have you considered maybe trying to find happiness somewhere else?

CALLING: Ancient Epigraphic Peeps, Papyrological Peeps, Prosopographical types, Lexographical types... Off the top of your head can you think of the same individual (not the same family), literally the same person, spelling their own name in different ways in different documents?!

Please support the petition against the planned #closure of #Archaeology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Archaeology has been a part of Humboldt-Universität academic tradition for almost 200 years, so closing it would break a long-standing research tradition weact.campact.de/petitions/sc...

Es ist ganz einfach: Wer überrascht davon ist, dass Alice Schwarzer Alice Weidel abfeiert, hat 30 Jahre lang nicht aufgepasst. Und ALLE, die ihr weiterhin eine Plattform geben um sich als "Cheffeministin Deutschlands" zu profilieren tragen eine Mitschuld an der Normalisierung rechter Propaganda.

One of the more bizarre experiences as an archaeologist is to meet old finds you once dug up in long and hot days at the excavation behind glass in an air-conditioned museum exhibition. All of a sudden, they'd become something special, sacred things almost: an exhibit.

German Embassy refuses visa to acclaimed filmmakers from #Sudan invited to Berlinale to present their latest film. Once again, a migration fixation undermines the open society.

Sparta fell into relative irrelevance less than 50 years after their victory in the Peloponnesian War. Just for some context.

I used this newspaper extensively for my MA dissertation research and they did really great work. Super disappointed at these news.

This is wild. A *history professor* who's into metal detecting is auctioning off an important coin find. Should he really be teaching history if he doesn't even have a grasp on the importance of material culture/archaeology? 🏺

Rod Dreher and JD Vance and their ilk do not, in fact, want to return to the Middle Ages, nor do they want to undo the Enlightenment, what they want is a fascist society that requires a mythical Golden Age that never existed, a neomedieval bullshit sphere to justify their atrocities.

I vastly underestimated the pregnancy insomnia because everything is uncomfortable. Been trying to fall asleep for 3 hours and just gave up. Work will be fun in the morning.

Want to know how thoughts and practices around provenance research/heritage protection/antiquities purchasing changed in university collections? Read my first ever publication from 2022 open access! 🏺