... from the finders themselves! #Archaeology 🏺 www.pre-construct.com/news/interna...

... and from Historic England. #Archaeology 🏺 historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/in...

Some of the oak posts from Seahenge - an early Bronze Age timber circle which was discovered at Holme beach in North Norfolk following ‘shifting sands’. Now part of the collections at Lynn Museum in Kings Lynn. 📸 My own. #Woodensday #Seahenge #Prehistory #Archaeology

Sometimes archaeological finds take your breath away. This was recovered during an excavation, which means there will be rich contextual information an it is just one, albeit extraordinary, puzzle piece that archaeologists use to increase our picture of the past. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

And the library will mail loans to you, which is an invaluable service.

Worth it for Romanists too as you can then borrow extra books about Rome from the library.

Our new online course: 'The Idea of Decline: Make Rome Great Again?' starts Wednesday 14th January! This course looks at the idea of decline in the ancient world as a concept whose resonances echo right down to the present day. www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event... #AncientBluesky 🏺

Happy #Caturday. Or was that yesterday? Confused and trying to fend off the end of holidays. Ogg feels similar about his brother Weatherwax.

KCL 2026 Greek Play Poster reveal! The Clouds by Aristophanes is adapted and directed by Giulia L Balsamo and will be performed from 3-5 March 2026 at the Greenwood Theatre, London SE1. Follow the play's progress on Instagram! 🏺 www.instagram.com/p/DSDP2pNgDat/

Reminder! You've a month left to enter the 2025 Niki Marangou Greek translation competition! King’s Centre for Hellenic Studies offers a prize of £500 for the annual poem translation competition, in honour of the Cypriot poet. Deadline: 16:00 (GMT) on 15 January 2026. Full information at

Out on the Vyrnwy fields with looming snow clouds and a very icy towpath along the canal. Lots of Lapwing in the fields here in bad weather conditions.

“The canton of the Durotriges of Lendiniae”a building stone from #HadriansWall mentioning the British tribe of the Durotriges based around Dorset inscribed on a reused altar. These Civitas stones survive showing the tribes of Britain contributed to the rebuilding of the wall.

‘It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.’ ~ Tolkien, LOTR. This #BookWormSat is Tolkien’s birthday so we will travel to other worlds and fantasy universes. Come with us.

**Top Ten Images of the Year · #5 of 10** ✨ One of my favourite windows — a lovely 15th-century depiction of a wren hunting a spider in the Zouche Chapel at York Minster.

The Journal of Roman Archaeology will be open access for research content from January 2026. 🌎 Global reach, 📝 higher citations and ⬇️ greater downloads are some of the benefits of #OpenAccess. Read more: https://cup.org/3X4XwmR #archaeology #romanarchaeology

I've spoken alot about my grandad, but I've rarely discussed his battle with Dementia. He is my motivation for signing up for the 50 miles in January challenge. I will be sharing folklore along the way. Please share or donate if you are able. Thank you! fundraise.dementiauk.org/s/27334/2788...

St Aemilian - with his sheep, lute & bedroll - blowing his horn to bring in a 6thC New Year on an ivory plaque made c.1060-80 for the reliquary on his shrine at San Millán de Suso, the 6thC monastery built on his hermitage at La Rioja, Spain. 📷 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #medievalbluesky

As 2026 approaches a happy new year's toast to you all with this marvellous 4th century Roman cage-cup, which bears an inscription, a toast that reads: BIBE MULTIS ANNIS - Drink for many years! Cheers and here's to a far better year in 2026! 🥂 #NewYear2026 🍀

Also an archaeologist. Such an interesting woman.

31 Dec 1539: the last remaining #Benedictine monks of St. Cuthbert’s Priory #Durham surrender their house to the Crown #otd (Robert Widdison at English wikipedia)

This funerary wreath is made of everlasting flowers (Helichrysum stoechas) and is more than 1,700 years old! It was found in a tomb of the #Roman period in Hawara/#Egypt and has survived due to Egypt's dry climate. Dating 2nd/3rd c. AD. On display at British Museum 📷 me

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.

On the GenAI and academia thing. I decided to test the summarise this function bundled in Adobe acrobat. Used the introduction chapter of my academic book, a lightly edited version of my PhD first chapter.

genAI doesn't FIND anything. Also, there is a world beyond the internet. And that's where historians work. (it's called an archive where most of it isn't digitized or searchable if it is.)

As we approach Christmas, for this #MosaicMonday I'm sharing one of my favourite decorative mosaics. From Combe St Nicholas and sadly no longer surviving. Hand-coloured engraving from Samuel Lysons, Reliquiae Britannico-Romanae I.IV (1813-1817), pl. VIII. AncientBlueSky 🏺

If anyone knows where, or whether, Caesarius of Arles uses a metaphor of kidnappers (mangones) tempting victims with flattery and then enslaving them, I'd love to hear about it. Supposed to be in a sermon.

Here's a 🧵 on how I came to write the article I'm working on right now, and you can decide for yourself whether AI was ever going to go in this direction:

14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.

After a hard day's work putting up the Christmas lights - the reward! Turning them on. We will never forget our lost loved ones. ❤️

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I know the proliferation of references to non-existent papers, powered by genAI, is getting less surprising and shocking but it doesn't make it any less potentially corrosive to the scholarly knowledge environment.

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

Last day today to respond to the consultation.

Last day today to respond to the consultation.

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It's beginning to look a lot like #HillfortsWednesday 🥳 Here's a glorious aerial photo of the spectacular unfinished 3.5ha Iron Age hillfort of Ladle Hill in #Hampshire 😍 ✈️ 📷 © Ginny Pringle for the Hampshire Cultural Trust For more see: hampshirearchaeology.wordpress.com/2015/11/23/b...

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

Io Saturnalia! (You can never say that enough.) We are logging off our socials now, we hope that you have a good break and enjoy the festivities. #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

Join the ICS & British Museum for a major upcoming conference: The Ancient Mediterranean and the British Museum - Past and Futures 25-27 February Exploring the past impact and future potential of the British Museum’s collections from the ancient Mediterranean world. Register here: shorturl.at/scLoA

Beware natural scientists doing social science You wouldn't trust an economist doing physics or chemistry or astronomy. So don't trust the reverse

Io Saturnalia!! This is the temple of Saturn in the forum of Rome. #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

Are you an Early Career Scholar? Do you want to learn how to publish in international journals? Together with Archaeological Dialogues & Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, we are hosting a publication workshop @tag2025york.bsky.social today, from 13.10-14.10 in room TFTV/109

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Medieval floor tile from Eynsham Abbey in Oxfordshire. Now part of the collections at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. 📸 My own. #TilesOnTuesday #Ashmolean

We've been up in York for @tag2025york.bsky.social conference where 3 of us met, Brenna gave a talk on the challenge of creating an accidental archive, AND... we only went & won the Outstanding Achievement Award for Archaeological Theory In Action 🏆! Huge gratitude to the entire community ❤️ 🏺

Saving a museum would be a pretty cool thing to do for Christmas, wouldn't it? You know what to do, you awesome bunch....

This is a brilliant local museum with some grand collections and very accessible. It should not be allowed to slip quietly away. Let the council know it's just not on to hide away history.

Help! Banbury Museum has been told that Cherwell District Council is cancelling ALL of its core funding. There is a very tight deadline - Friday 19th December - to tell the Council what you think. Please respond to the consultation and share this post www.banburymuseum.org/news/no-fund...

BANBURY MUSEUM. Cherwell District Council are proposing to cease providing core funding for the museum as of the financial year 2027/8, which could lead to the museum's closure. This would be a huge loss for the community. You can sign my petition opposing this here - www.change.org/p/save-banbu...

Please sign and share this petition to stop Banbury museum's closure. Cherwell council are proposing to cut ALL the museum's core funding. c.org/jWp54xYh9r