So...this might be a really interesting thread if you've ever wondered about mapmaking. @susietogo.bsky.social grilled me (gently!) for a bit about how I draw maps, and I thought others might enjoy the conversation. Esp. if you've been thinking about a map for your book, this thread's for you!

This amount would fund NEH for more than a decade.

Today on AOH, Dr. Aisha Dad, a Research Affiliate at the Carolina Asia Center and Director of the Classics Gaming Collaborative, discusses her work in reception studies, particularly in how ancient stories are retold in modern contexts and the importance of rethinking what constitutes 'classics’.

Waking up to news 🚨 that 6 (!) Roman statues were stolen from Syria’s National Museum, in Damascus, on Monday. No details on which statues yet, but I had a few pics below from the GRB gallery with the famed Al-Lat Athena. Heartbreaking news. thehill.com/homenews/ap/...

OMG they’ve remade The Running Man? It’s gonna be hard to outdo the original.

For reference. I might print this out and hang it in my house:

How do we know ear scoops were ear scoops? Realized I have never questioned how we know this. finds.org.uk/database/art...

Didn't realize how much I had been holding my breath over this one. Phew!

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A Roman mosaic depicting the muses from Vichten, Luxembourg, dated to the mid 3rd century AD. Calliope and the poet Homer sit at the center. They are surrounded by the other eight ones, identified by their names written in Latin. #MosaicMonday

14 November: Digital Lunch with @florencesn.bsky.social Title: (Not) Dying of Anticipation: Video Game Archaeologies of Contemporary Play 🏺 1pm GMT, sign up to get the zoom link: forms.gle/xQGo4rJwk5iG...

Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓 itiner-e.org We might have to have a lie-down.

How every history and science textbook should start

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

Just woke up thinking it was Monday and that I had to get to an 8:00 a.m. doctor’s appointment. But then I realized it’s only Sunday and I have a whole extra hour today! #TinyJoys

A film you've seen more than 7 times with a gif

@digkabri.bsky.social’s After 1177 BCE is in the cheap books email today. www.bookbub.com/books/after-...

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…”

My epic students have some really cool research topics! I let them choose their topics and then they have to write a proposal. I also allow for them to choose their topics format of their final product.

Someone get me The Buggles.

Reposting for the morning crowd. If there’s one thing you need to do this weekend, this is it.

To save enough for a 10% down payment on a median priced house in SLC you would have to cut the equivalent of 12,000 cups of $5 coffee. At one coffee per day, it would take 33 years if prices stayed the same.

Archaeologists speak up against the Vice President's blatantly disinformative use of archaeology for spreading these harmful Christian nationalist narratives 🏺

He’s great!!

Monkey Aryballos https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.50

New from 404 Media: you can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's new facial recognition app, according to internal DHS document I obtained. Photos captured by the app are stored for 15 years, including U.S. citizens. We've seen officers scanning faces w/ phones on streets www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...

Cheap books email has Le Guin’s Lavinia on sale for cheap www.bookbub.com/books/lavini...

It is my pleasure to share the CFP for a special issue of #ResDiffJournal guest-edited by Hasskei Majeed, Justine McConnell, Olakunbi Olasope, and Luke Roman, building on the Classics &/in Africa conference at UCL this summer. "Classics and Africa" resdifficiles.com/classics-and...

Just did my first #SkypeAScientist call. It was so awesome!! The hour flew by. How have I never signed up before?!?

Can't help think about the Putin as Heracles paintings here too. www.bbc.com/news/world-e...

This appropriation of gaming imagery and culture to push authoritarianism is, as @alyssamerc.bsky.social points out here, the natural extension of what Gamergate began www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...

We are so close! Help @chancebonar.bsky.social make Ancient Gazan lit more accessible to community!

Registration for our 'New Approaches to Writing Women's Histories' event is now LIVE! Please do join us next Wednesday, 5 November 2025 at 4pm GMT for a fascinating discussion with Kaia Alderson and Gráinne Lyons. More details here: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-now-...

Here's what I learned from spending 8 hours of my weekend playing a game about revolutionary donkeys with a crowd of other people in a theatre www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...

Our countdown to Halloween continues with today’s look back to our series on monsters and demons in the ancient world! Check out #PeoplingBlog #35 Researching Monstrosity in Greek Literature with Fiona Mitchell here: peoplingthepast.com/2021/10/08/b...

A new study shows the impact of Neanderthals and later hunter-gatherer peoples on nature turns out to have had a far greater influence on shaping the landscape of what we now know as Europe. www.bajr.org/neanderthals...

Join us in Mainz for Landscapes of #Conflict: Archaeological Perspectives from #Prehistory to the #MiddleAges — an international #conference exploring how conflict and peace shaped human–environment interactions through time. 📅 26–28 Nov 2025 | 🏛️ LEIZA, Mainz www.leiza.de/kalender/det...

The Word for World: Maps of Ursula K Le Guin is showing in the Architectural Association Gallery, London until December 6

Spooky Halloween turnip!!

Most histories of hoodies go with 12th century monks as the originator, but I like to show my students this one from 5th-7th century Egypt.

Nice to be back in the pottery studio. Seems like I somehow accidentally channeled the cover of Mendelsohn’s new Odyssey translation with this one.

Has anyone assigned either Coarelli or Claridge’s archaeological guides to Rome for a Latin course or a Roman civ course? Trying to decide if it’s worth it and which one might work better for a Latin course reading poetry about Rome.

GREEN GAMING An educational innovation project in which 55 of my students researched ecogames and ecogamemaking. The result is a white paper that's meant to be accessible and useful for scholars, students, and the industry. tinyurl.com/greengamingtcm If you like it, please share it around!

Coming soon: first English translation of the ancient scholia to the Iliad. Books 1 and 2. www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

I am once again telling you that taking money from Musk makes you complicit in his instrumentalization of cultural heritage to support his beliefs. Taking funding from amoral entities is, in my opinion, not ethical and it is in fact harmful. www.finestresullarte.info/en/news/elon...

So pleased to launch the CfP for the III Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities!! Looking forward to your paper proposals 🤗🥳 Deadline 31 Jan 2026 @ebenbow.bsky.social @emmaolson5.bsky.social #medievalsky #skystorians #medieval #cfp #earlymodern #history #urbanstudies #callforpapers

Over a third of the old internet no longer exists, 87% of all video games before 2009 are lost media, 40% of the Million Dollar Homepage was dead links as of 2019, etc. *And* this media void is being filled with mindboggling quantities of ai slop. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mil...

A visual metaphor.

TrovaTrivia is a new story-led quiz app designed to help kids discover Ancient Rome in a fun way.