I'm going to rickroll my afternoon class for april fools with a qr code link to youtube, put on a ppt slide and labeled as an extra credit opportunity sign up. Quite excited

History without historians is doomed to fail. With an interdisciplinary team of scholars we show how the purported link between late Roman conflicts and drought has been misunderstood. We also outline a path forward in the use of sources in paleoclimatic research. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

"In 1801..." youtu.be/omsvdMhbM24?...

No other ancient document holds my interest and affection quite like this one papyrus, written in Egypt in the Armenian alphabet. It's a goldmine of linguistic evidence not for the Egyptian or Armenian language, but for Greek! Here's my enthusiastic introduction to it: dannybate.com/2026/03/24/t...

www.artnews.com/art-news/new... with comments from Emily Neumeier and Christiane Gruber

Two weeks from today..

Just happened to be at the LBJ Presidential Library and Museum in Austin this weekend.. As soon as i saw it, i thought of the Beinecke Library and sure enough! Architect was the same: Gordon Bunshaft, from famous modern firm of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill.

also, the base of this thing looks cheap af

The Talas aqueduct bridge was perhaps significantly rebuilt in the 6th c. It belonged to a system probably begun by Valens and expanded in the 5th c. It belonged to the longest known aqueduct channels and most complex system of urban water collection in the ancient world. Photos taken yesterday

Intriguing ! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"11 July 706? Justinian II blinded Patriarch Callinicus and exiled him to Rome: Theophanes, a.m. 6198. When he arrived, he was buried inside a wall. After 40 days, the pope (John VII) opened the wall and found him still alive. He died four days later, presumably on 23 August, his feast day."

邁入嶄新時代? ctext.org announced today that AI translations of "all texts in the pre-Qin and Han corpus that previously lacked translations, the 25 dynastic histories, as well as hundreds of other historical, literary, philosophical and poetic works" have been added today: (1/2)

The only surviving original Carolingian "littera formata", like a passport for a priest. Issued in Lucca, now in Pavia. archiviodigitale-icar.cultura.gov.it/it/185/ricer...

spent the afternoon exploring hollywood forever cemetery in LA: a lot of people have seen photos of the celeb graves etc, but the variety and scale and extravagance of monuments was extraordinary, as was the picture on immigrant communities in LA

Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum now open access csel.at/en/publikati...

I had a very interesting interview with a couple of very smart people who run the Sképsislamica podcast. I talked about a wide range of things, from the late Sasanian world to the 10th century Samanids and blabbered on for 2.30 hours and they left it as it was! I am sorry! youtu.be/xTuk8u7TTu4?...

i'm up at Brown Univ for this today: fun line up on water in late antiquity. And more snow than i've seen in years.

Wild that Indiana is going to finally win a national football championship in the year that IU’s leaders & the state’s government decided it was no longer a serious research university.

*name that palace*? this evening i'm working on trace of a plan from part of famous early medieval palace -- early twentieth century, quite famous excavator and draftsman.. any guesses? (Lord help me w/ the shading and details for tiles and hypocaust.. still figuring out quite how to manage it..)

This is all coming along.. missed the Jaharis post a few months ago. Giving talks here and there on the topic as we all keep writing and writing and writing... If interested for your dept drop me a line

A trade for Ukraine and Taiwan

going to see Torlonia collection tmrw

El pastor es mi señor

Heinrich Kiepert's *Formae Orbis Antiqui*: 25 maps of 36 planned were published, 1903-1908ish.. All available for high resolution download from UChicago isac-idb.uchicago.edu/results.php?... someday i'm going to wallpaper my bathroom with these.

❄️so cold 🥶https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RTFi-y9WgM

🎶 all i want for Christmas, is yoooouuuu, baby 🎶 www.abebooks.com/first-editio...

Interesting project on graffiti at Hagia Sophia in IST www.hagiasofiagraffiti.com/schemesconte...

you betta work www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIOY...

Be encouraged www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZia...

That time of year again: send UGA your students looking for an MA in Latin and Classics! The home of Wheelocks' Latin textbook, and according to MLA the biggest Latin program in USA, we are a bastion of rigorous Latin pedagogy. Fully-funded assistantships available. Email me with questions, please!

i do not have the energy for self promotion anymore -- thanks, tenure -- but LinkedIn seems to be where the strivers are congregating these days

Have been slightly obsessed with this for a while now youtu.be/PJ9PMydTVYE?...

Learned yesterday that a recent MA grad from our department had manuscript for new edition of a fairly important and substantial Late Antique Latin text accepted by Brepols. Wow. 😮

Time for another adventure...

Time for another adventure...

A lot of the justifications point to the number of Religious Studies majors—but is this really how a dept’s value should be judged? In many RS departments in which I’ve taught, our courses have enormous enrollments & student interest +

Fun fact—the formal pub date is 7/31, but apparently CUP is now live with my book, if you’re logging in thru an institution: accordingly, book 🧵 incoming. (1/) www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

i need a cloud cluster / super-computer for photogrammetry.. sh*t's getting too big even for my gamer laptop at 300+ gb

Re: plague studies youtu.be/y-qjnzqnqKM?...

Sardis and Bin Tepe have been officially inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List: news from today trt.global/world/articl... whc.unesco.org/en/list/1731