The Odyssey Translations to Read Before Christopher Nolan Film www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/th...

Shame on them.

And of course, this is just in time for #phallusthursday. Oh, those wacky satyrs … #BritishMuseum 📸 me

Today, during Women’s History Month, we recognize Harriet Tubman. Her courage helped lead enslaved people to freedom and strengthened the moral foundation of our country.

The Trouble with Authentic Ancient Statues - JSTOR Daily daily.jstor.org/the-trouble-...

New on the SUP blog: in consideration of current events, we have put together a list of books on Iran that we hope provides context and provokes careful thought. #ReadUP

Americans aren't facing a democratic collapse. We’re living in its aftermath | Eric Reinhart

Well, I do have one piece of amazing news today in the midst of *gestures to world* and that is that this will one day exist and I will one day teach with it. 🐘 ⚔️ www.worldofreel.com/blog/2026/3/...

The U.S. war on Iran is now estimated to cost $1 billion per day. Meanwhile Americans are told there’s no money for healthcare, hospitals, or basic social programs.

While Cost of Living Soars and Healthcare Taken Away, Trump Spending $1 Billion Per Day in War of Choice With Iran

In a moment of mass killing and sickening triumphalism, Americans must speak out against this aggression. No caveats, no hedging.

Amplifying! #seattle

I promise you that the government that murdered Alex Pretti and Renee Good does not give a flying fuck about the protests in Iran.

ProPublica's @annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy have won a George Polk award for international reporting for “The End of Aid,” a series that investigated the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development and its consequences around the world. Read the full series here:

Aztec roof ornament, about 2.4 meter high, a crenellation, part of the Calmécac, the school for the sons of Aztec nobility in ancient Tenochtitlan (now CDMX). The spiral symbolizes a marine snail, associated with the rain god Tláloc, or with Quetzalcóatl in his aspect as Ehécatl (god of the wind).

Hamat'sa Raven (ca 2012) Beau Dick Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington

This image is a painting titled "Reclined woman" (also referred to as "Sleeping Lady") by the French artist Raphael Delorme (1885–1962). Created around 1930 or 1940, the work is a prominent example of the Art Deco style.

The student-led organization is challenging the way economics is taught at universities around the world, with a goal to make economics education “plural, critical, decolonised and historically grounded.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Crooked Beak (1994) Beau Dick Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington

Trump is either corrupt or an idiot ... Or, he thinks the American people are idiots. Are you?

Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte was the first #NativeAmerican woman to become a physician in the United States. A member of the Omaha tribe, she campaigned for public health & for the formal, legal allotment of land to members of her tribe. #WomensPhysiciansDay #WomenInSTEM #WomenInMedicine

These figures represent Ehécatl (a representation of Quetzalcoatl), who, with his breath gave movement to the sun and the moon and granted the gift of life. These served as load-bearing structural supports and were found at archaeological sites such as Calixtlahuaca and at the Templo Mayor in CDMX.

Ultra-processed foods should be treated more like cigarettes than food – study

Haida argillite pipe - Museum of Anthropology / UBC - Vancouver

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds

The pyramid with the largest base in the world is the Great Pyramid of Cholula, in Puebla. It is so massive that for centuries it was thought to be a natural mountain; the Spanish built even a church on top. Its base measures 450 meters on each side (four times larger than the Giza pyramid in Egypt)

This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.

French senate adopts a bill to ease the return of colonial-era artifacts to their countries of origin

The Four Heavens: A New History of the Ancient Maya is available for preorder! Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... Available in Spanish from our partners at Grupo Planeta.

This jade mask from Tikal in Guatemala is one of the most famous Mayan artifacts in the world. The mask probably belonged to a person not from a noble family, but who had achieved great honor during his life. It might be Kalomtee Bahlam, a renowned warrior who served as tutor to the Lady of Tikal.

Maya glyph drawings on Huun paper, hands on engagement for art history students. Tzak, to grasp or conjure (human hand holds fish) 🐟

If you love “William” the 🦛 hippo, then you already enjoy ancient Egyptian faience. This video from the V&A is a great overview of how to make faience amulets with Zahed Taj-Eddin. The use of Manganese Dioxide (for the blackish colorant) on the eyes is also quite cool. youtu.be/V1D8DhCdIx4?...

The Crouching Venus, a Hadrianic copy of a Greek original sculpted by Doidalsas in the mid-3rd century BC. The statue stood in the so-called Heliocaminus Baths at Villa Adriana (Hadrian's Villa) in Tivoli. Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome. followinghadrian.com/2014/03/12/a...

Mexico led the Latino region in upward economic mobility from 2018-2024, with for the first time more of the population defined as middle class (39.6%) than poor (21.7%), according to World Bank data. It means earning at least 9,918 pesos a month (US$17 a day). www.presidenta.gob.mx/boletines/cl...

Happiest Birthday to my wonderful son Toryn, I’m basking in seven years of your love and sunshine. Many more adventures to come!

This axe, named after its shape, is part of the axe-yoke-palm assembly, closely linked to the ceremonial ballgame. It wears a unique helmet with the figure of a curved fish, whose head rests on the forehead and whose tail extends towards the back. San Andrés Tuxtla, Veracruz, Totonac 100-850 CE.

Robert Delaunay (1885 - 1941) Saint-Séverin No. 3 1909 - 1910

For the first time in history, the state of Virginia has a female Governor and right after being sworn in today Governor Abigail Spanberger’s first official act was to end cooperation between ICE-Gestapo and Virginia State Police. More of this. 💙👊👏

The urn depicts a jaguar, which was a sacred powerful animal in Mesoamerica representing the underworld, darkness, and the night sky. adorned with a headdress bearing the mask of the broad-beaked bird god, a deity associated with the ancestors. From the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, Zapotec 200–900 CE.

A recently discovered statue from 10,000 BCE - depicting a woman carrying a goose - is ‘the earliest figurine to depict a human–animal interaction’ www.discovermagazine.com/a-12-000-yea...

153 Democrats just joined 188 Republicans to pass HR 7006, which •Sends $3.3B to Israel (including offensive weapons) •Bans any attempt at Palestinian liberation •Sends $50M to Venezuela Only 57 Democrats voted no. Americans still don't have healthcare.

Trump is only pulling back the curtain, all Western countries are culpable, not one is willing to fully address capitalism, extractive, exploitative policies. We fear losing our creature comforts and security in exchange for a way of life that honors the Earth. berlinergazette.de

And this is who Renee Good was. The song is, "Do What You Have To Do" by Sarah McLachlan from her album “Surfacing”. 🕊

#MementoMoriMonday 💀 A gorgeous cadaver effigy 🦴 📍St Mary's Church • Tenby ⛪ #Wales #History

Illustration by Christian Yandell from Australian Fairy Tales by Hume Cook, Melbourne, 1925.

Dark! This bat god comes from central Mexican traditions influenced by Zapotec and Teotihuacan religious ideas, roughly 600–900 CE. This deity is associated with death, the underworld, the night, caves and sacrifice; often referring to decapitation, human sacrifice and regeneration through death.

México mágico! Pre-hispanic discovery in San Pedro Jaltepetongo, Oaxaca: while digging a trench last Saturday, local workers found an ancient Mixtec tomb, possibly from the Postclassic period. Among the findings are gold pendants, plates, vessels, and funerary remains of the ancient inhabitants.

Stirrup spout vessel with bird (Moche (Peru), 200-600 CE) Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

On this week’s episode of The Big Interview, the author of The Handmaid’s Tale talks about Elon Musk, political resistance, and why she still has hope for America’s future.