The next History of Liturgy Seminar is in London @ihr.bsky.social on Monday 16 March 17.30. Come hear Melanie Shaffer @bristolcms.bsky.social & @carrielarocco.bsky.social. In-person (chat! drinks! people!) or online. #medievalsky www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

✨Our new book is here✨ This volume analyzes the reception of certain heroes and heroines in different processes of construction of national or collective identity and in mass culture, from the XIX to the XXI century by Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. ⬇️⬇️ www.fnac.es/a12888040/An...

The Roman priesthood of the Salii, devoted to Mars, celebrated the beginning and end of the war season, in March and October. In the opening of the war season the sacred shields of the city of Rome were carried in procession and beat with sticks. End of 2nd/beginning of 3rd c AD #MosaicMonday

📢 ATTENTION SCHOLARS 📢 It's time to submit your application for a BILNAS research grant. Click on this link to check your eligibility and to download an application form: bilnas.org/research-act... 📅 Deadline: Friday 27 February 2026. #Grants #Funding #NorthAfrica #Libya

❗️Petition to protest the planned closures of the Wincklemann-Institut (!) and archaeology programs at Humboldt University in Berlin ⬇️

New job: Assistant Professorship in Archaeology Aarhus University jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69819

#MilanoCortina2026 #Olympics #MosaicMonday Detail of athletes from the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, c 216 AD

Animals as Literary Topoi in Fable and Ancient Literature Seminar in Barcelona @filcomub.bsky.social with @masterclaub.bsky.social and @lludrigueta.bsky.social

He escrito un libro. ¿Os cuento qué hay en él? - 25 años de lecturas - 9 meses de escritura - muchas ganas - bibliografía consultada en 6 idiomas (italiano, francés, inglés, español, alemán, latín) de bibliotecas nacionales e internacionales. Resultado: 384 páginas de historias alucinantes.

#MosaicMonday at the #BritishMuseum speaks for all of us with this C4 floor #mosaic from #Halicarnassus with the face of #Phobos, Fear, blossoming like an evil flower within a series of classical #frames. Fear radiates outward. The symbolism is clear: step on your fear and go on. #AncientBluesky 🏺

The next lecture in our colloquium at the #HSI of the #UniRostock will take place on Thursday at 7:15 p.m. The topic: Monika Trümper (FU Berlin): New research at the Gymnasium of Agrigent. It's going to be exciting! 😁 www.altertum.uni-rostock.de/institut/akt...

Are you considering achieving a PhD in #AncientHistory? And are you interested in #RomanReligion? This job advertisement @unimainz.bsky.social might be for you: stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de/jgu/job/52699 t1p.de/0sjuf

This banger again 👀🤩 because why not. #MosaicMonday Detail of floor mosaic - 1 century AD. National Archaeological Museum Aquileia. The bow motif connects ivy and vine branches, referring to the cult of Dionysus. #art #Archaeology #Italy #History 📷: Ottone Porfirogenito.

🚨 #Roman villa alert! 🚨 📰 Ground Penetrating Radar has revealed a >500 sq m, well-preserved villa in South Wales, with potential to teach us a huge amount about life from the 1st all the way to the 5th century AD 🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dictionary of the Oldest Written Language–It Took 90 Years to Complete, and It’s Now Free Online www.openculture.com/2026/01/dict... #books #literature #language

An inscribed floor tile from Roman London, with a sketch depicting a Roman lighthouse. Part of the collections at the British Museum. 📸 My own. #TilesOnTuesday #RomanBritain

🚨CfP: Land and Power in the Late Roman World. Deadline: 11 Jan 26, event 29 Jun-1 July 26. Come join the Land & Loyalty team in sunny Tubingen to discuss why land was so important in the late Roman world. ECRs especially solicited! research.st-andrews.ac.uk/landloyalty/...

Wishing you Health, Life, Joy, Peace, Good Cheer, Hope. This lovely ancient message was inscribed in Greek on a mosaic in Halicarnassus 1600 years ago. #2026NewYear

From c. 3,600 years ago, an ancient Egyptian bead in the form of a hedgehog curled-up in a ball! 🦔❤️ Blue faience, c. 1985 -1650 BC. National Museum of Scotland www.nms.ac.uk/search-our-c... 📷 by me

The newly opened Colosseo-Fori Inperiali subway station houses a full museum's worth of finds discovered while digging under the city. Including this 4th c. CE gold glass fragment depicting the goddess Roma, which had been affixed to a wall in the ruins of an ancient military barracks. 🏺 1/ 📸 me

Desentierran unos impresionantes mosaicos del siglo IV d.C. en la antigua ciudad de Adrianópolis historia.nationalgeographic.com.es/a/desentierr...

The United Kingdom is coming back to Erasmus+ 🇪🇺🇬🇧 We have concluded negotiations for the United Kingdom’s association to Erasmus+ in 2027, making further steps in our renewed EU-UK Strategic Partnership. More ↓ link.europa.eu/vf3vJk

BCDSS Professors Julia Hillner and Pia Wiegmink, together with former BCDSS Guest Researcher Jamie Wood (University of Lincoln), have been granted funding by the VolkswagenStiftung for their collaborative project "The Nameless in History". @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @volkswagenstiftung.de

Die spektakuläre Entdeckung der Kore Vulci: Im Blog des Forschugsprojekts #VulciCityScape berichtet das Ausgrabungsteam vom Fund einer außergewöhnlich gut erhaltenen griechischen Skulptur in der etruskischen Stadt Vulci in Italien. 👇 vulcityscape.hypothe...#VulciCityScape #Archäologie #Vulci

Look at this! For the first time since it was found, partially excavated and dispersed in the 1950s, someone has digitally reconstructed the 6th century mosaic from Qasr el-Lebia in Cyrenacia, Libya. 😮🤯 #MosaicMonday

Very glad to do another round today of making Opus Signinum as part of our experimental archaeology class with students on my Material Culture: Methods course on our two-year MA programme @dependencybonn.de

Part of #Roman floor mosaic 3rd Century CE Found 1899 - Karl-Marx-Straße/Jüdemerstraße #Trier A lion striking a bull as its prey. Originally 6.5 square metres in size, the surrounding pattern indicates it once would have had nine panels. Now Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Trier #MosaicMonday

Delighted that from January 2026 all research articles published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org will be Open Access view.updates.cambridge.org?qs=85c24bbd7...

I am pleased to announce that John Penniman, Emanuel Fiano, and I are launching a new book series for the study of religion in late antiquity with Fordham University Press. If you have a book-in-progress looking for a home, please reach out to discuss your project! fordhampress.com/theoria

A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire go.nature.com/4nHZmoM

Letter of Roman Emperor Caracalla Discovered in the Walls of a 1950s House in Türkiye www.anatolianarchaeology.net/letter-of-ro...

📢 Call for Applications! The BCDSS is inviting applications for the Heinz Heinen Fellowship Program 2026/2027. 📅 Apply by Jan 10, 2026 📍 Start date: from Oct 1, 2026 👉 Full details here: buff.ly/8aH1Fy0 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

An extraordinary discovery was made in Ibiza: a 30-centimeter wooden sculpture representing Hercules. Considering the scarcity of wooden sculptures preserved from the Roman era, this discovery is truly remarkable. The figure was found in a Roman well that was later reused as a refuse pit. 🧵1/2 🏺

Eugesta, online meeting | Modern Masculinities and Classical Reception 🏺 Organized by Alastair Blanshard, Filippo Carlà-Uhink and Anna Chiara Corradino 📆 6-7 November 2025. Program: eugesta-recherche.univ-lille.fr/fileadmin/us... Abstracts : eugesta-recherche.univ-lille.fr/fileadmin/us...

Call for Papers: RAC/TRAC 2026 - Water Cultures Beyond Roman Italy Our own Dr Henry Clarke and Dr Giacomo Savani are organising a panel on Water Cultures Beyond Roman Italy at the next joined Roman Archaeology and Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference in Aarhus, Denmark, in May 2026...

Stip: PhD scholarship "Ancient Civilizations" (Univ. Basel) https://www.hsozkult.de/grant/id/stip-157984 Basel, 01.04.2026-31.03.2027, Deaprtement of Ancient Civilisation, University of Basel, Bewerbungsschluss: 15.11.2025

The Royal Game of Ur is the world’s oldest playable boardgame! Played by Sumerians in ancient Mesopotamia about 4,500 years ago! It is a two-player race game, the rules of which have been deciphered from a cuneiform tablet. Game from the Royal Cemetery of Ur. 📷 British Museum #Archaeology

A stunning head of Medusa, the mythical creature whose sight turns everyone to stone. Medusa’s head was a popular motif used to ward off any evil. The #Roman bronze fitting was found in Xanten, dating 1st century AD On display at Römermuseum Xanten. 📷 me 🏺#archaeology

#MosaicMonday - Mosaic panels from the elaborate mosaic floor in the 8th-century AD Church of St. Stephen in Umm al-Rasas (Jordan) depicting cities near the Jordan River. Esbounta (Hesban), Askalon (Ashkelon), Eleutheropolis (Beit Guvrin), Philadelphia (Amman).

Hector for #MosaicMonday? Very little is known about this mosaic including the provenance, but the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna offers a tentative date of C1st–C2nd CE and the tantalising hint that this may be part of a Trojan War cycle depicting Hector. #AncientRome #AncientGreece #TrojanWar

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar. The programme for Winter Semester is ready. Take a look! More on the seminar's website...

Im Winter veranstaltet die Professur Geschichte des Altertums an der Universität Potsdam gemeinsam mit dem Brandenburgischen Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologisches Landesmuseum die Reihe "Archäologien der Gewalt". Interessierte sind herzlich eingeladen! www.uni-potsdam.de/de/hi-altert...

Only one day to the TRAC conference DEADLINE. Send your abstracts by September 15. #Archaeology #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋

PostDoc-position in Classical / Roman Archaeology www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2025/09...

🌱Spring🌿 Today was the first real sign of spring in Sydney with a beautifully warm 29 degree sunny day. We’re celebrating with this wonderfully detailed mosaic from the The Late Antique Roman villa at La Olmeda (Pedrosa de la Vega, Spain). #MosaicMonday #AncientRome

#MosaicMonday - Mosaic of incredible intricacy from the Roman Villa at Noheda: ca. 4th Century AD. A doubtless wealthy couple attend a pantomime performance, complete with a bellows-operated organ! #Archaeology #Art 🏺 Image: Villa Romana de Noheda. Link - cultura.castillalamancha.es/patrimonio/y...

🚨 Les #Annales recrutent un éditeur/une éditrice bilingue anglais-français 🚨 L'offre d'emploi est à retrouver ici 👉 recrutement.ehess.fr/offre-emploi... Poste à pourvoir à partir du 1er novembre 2025 ⚠️ Candidatures à envoyer avant le 8 octobre 2025

Don't diss this fish* (*mammal actually) A Dolphin with Attitude (and a large trident) 🐬🔱 Detail from a late 2nd century AD #Roman mosaic excavated by John Turtle Wood in the Sanctuary of Artemis #Ephesus in 1872 © The Trustees of the British Museum 1872,0803.72 #MosaicMonday #GrumpyDolphin