In honor of the gathering season, November's #ImageOfTheMonth is dedicated to a prominent element of Greek gatherings: a red-figure kylix (a drinking cup) that played a starring role in ancient festivals and symposia 🧵 /1

In this week’s #PeoplingBlog post, our Egyptian colleagues from the Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage project offer us a 12-point manifesto which highlights the ways in which the public can treat Egyptian mummified ancestral remains with dignity and respect peoplingthepast.com/2025/10/31/b... 🧵 /1

Honoured that @peoplingthepast.bsky.social gets to host this absolute 🔥🔥🔥 manifesto on the treatment of Egyptian mummified ancestral remains written by our colleagues at Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage Project. This is a must read! peoplingthepast.com/2025/10/31/b...

Our friends from Egypt's Dispersed Heritage, along with Millennial 3al A5er and and the Horniman Museum and Gardens have written a 🔥 post on the treatment of mummified remains for @peoplingthepast.bsky.social . Find it here (including the Arabic version): peoplingthepast.com/2025/10/31/b...

In this week’s #PeoplingBlog post, our Egyptian colleagues from the Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage project offer us a 12-point manifesto which highlights the ways in which the public can treat Egyptian mummified ancestral remains with dignity and respect peoplingthepast.com/2025/10/31/b... 🧵 /1

For the final throwback on our countdown to Halloween we return to our series on the presence of the Undead. Melissa Cradic guides us through the complexities of excavating ancient graves and relationships between the living & the disembodied dead in the Near East peoplingthepast.com/2022/10/21/b...

For the final throwback on our countdown to Halloween we return to our series on the presence of the Undead. Melissa Cradic guides us through the complexities of excavating ancient graves and relationships between the living & the disembodied dead in the Near East peoplingthepast.com/2022/10/21/b...

Please consider signing this very important petition to keep Greek & Roman Studies at uOttawa 👇🏻

📣 Sign the petition TODAY to support @antrelclaottawa.bsky.social! #SOSClassicsUO Share widely!

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...

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...

Day 2 of our countdown to Halloween! 🎃 👻

Our countdown to Halloween continues today as we look back to our series exploring the presence of the Undead and highlight #PeoplingBlog 68: Controlling the Restless Dead in Mesopotamia with JoAnn Scurlock peoplingthepast.com/2022/10/28/b...

As we approach Halloween, it’s time to dig into the archives to highlight some of our spooky content! 😱 Today, we look back to our series on “Cursing in the Ancient World” with Blog #87 The Perils of Love: Love Spells in Coptic Magic with Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin peoplingthepast.com/2023/10/20/b...

As we approach Halloween, it’s time to dig into the archives to highlight some of our spooky content! 😱 Today, we look back to our series on “Cursing in the Ancient World” with Blog #87 The Perils of Love: Love Spells in Coptic Magic with Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin peoplingthepast.com/2023/10/20/b...

And if you enjoyed these episodes, you can check out all #PeoplingPodcast episodes and so much more at peoplingthepast.com/category/pod... #Ancient #Mediterranean #Podcasts /end

In celebration of our recent fifth birthday, Peopling the Past is counting down the top 5 of each of our media categories! Today we are giving a shout-out to the top 5 #PeoplingPodcast episodes! 🧵👇 /1

In celebration of our recent fifth birthday, Peopling the Past is counting down the top 5 of each of our media categories! Today we are giving a shout-out to the top 5 #PeoplingPodcast episodes! 🧵👇 /1

1 more week until "Cities on the Edge: Documenting, Preserving, and Teaching Endangered Urban Heritage in Egypt, Sudan, and Palestine"! Registration is free – online option available🙏 Program & registration link: everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/c... #CulturalHeritage #Museums

And if you are interested in finding out more about Lisa’s work, you can also check out episode 4 of #PeoplingPodcast Season 4 – “Curating with Care: Transparency in Museums with Lisa Saladino Haney” – peoplingthepast.com/2025/05/20/s... #Ancient #Mediterranean #Egypt #Archaeology

In our new #PeoplingBlog post, Dr. Lisa Saladino Haney takes us through her work on the Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s new “Egypt on the Nile” project, in which they are re-imagining the ways that we conceive of museum exhibitions related to ancient Egypt: peoplingthepast.com/2025/10/17/b...

In our new #PeoplingBlog post, Dr. Lisa Saladino Haney takes us through her work on the Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s new “Egypt on the Nile” project, in which they are re-imagining the ways that we conceive of museum exhibitions related to ancient Egypt: peoplingthepast.com/2025/10/17/b...

Looking forward to sharing the work of @peoplingthepast.bsky.social with more Illinois folks at this weekend’s annual meeting!

In celebration of our recent fifth birthday, Peopling the Past is counting down the top 5 of each of our media categories! Today we are giving a shout-out to the top 5 #PeoplingVideo contributions across the years /thread 🧵👇

In the spirit of Halloween, October’s #ImageOfTheMonth is a particularly cursed item: a Roman curse tablet (defixio) from 1st–4th century CE London (British Museum 1934,1105.1). This thin sheet of lead wishes ill-health to a woman named Tretia Maria /1

We are thrilled to share that #PeoplingPodcast has been named at #9 in Feedspot's "100 Best Egypt Podcasts You Must Follow in 2025"! You can check out the full list here for all the amazing follow suggestions: podcast.feedspot.com/egypt_podcas...

In today’s #PeoplingBlog we continue our “Unknown Peoples” Series! Read on as Goran Sanev takes us through the historical and archaeological evidence for the Paeonians, one of the oldest proto-historical communities in the Central Balkans: peoplingthepast.com/2025/09/26/b... /1

In today’s #PeoplingBlog we continue our “Unknown Peoples” Series! Read on as Goran Sanev takes us through the historical and archaeological evidence for the Paeonians, one of the oldest proto-historical communities in the Central Balkans: peoplingthepast.com/2025/09/26/b... /1

In celebration of our fifth birthday, Peopling the Past is counting down the top 5 of each of our media categories! First up is the #PeoplingBlog! In fifth spot is Blog #56 "Lessons from the Past: Archaeology and Migration", with @meganjdaniels.bsky.social peoplingthepast.com/2022/04/01/b... 🧵

In celebration of our fifth birthday, Peopling the Past is counting down the top 5 of each of our media categories! First up is the #PeoplingBlog! In fifth spot is Blog #56 "Lessons from the Past: Archaeology and Migration", with @meganjdaniels.bsky.social peoplingthepast.com/2022/04/01/b... 🧵

We're 5! (I can't believe it!) Many thanks to the wide variety of incredible scholars who have shared their time and expertise with us.

I love Peopling The Past so much for teaching material and extra credit assignments!

Congratulations on your 5 year anniversary.

Today we celebrate FIVE years of Peopling the Past! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who has contributed to and supported our project – we appreciate ALL of you! And stay tuned over the next few weeks as we count down our top 5 blogs, videos, and podcast episodes from the past 5 years 👀

Happy Birthday to us!! So grateful to be part of this team and to work alongside such amazing people ☺️

Today we celebrate FIVE years of Peopling the Past! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who has contributed to and supported our project – we appreciate ALL of you! And stay tuned over the next few weeks as we count down our top 5 blogs, videos, and podcast episodes from the past 5 years 👀

On today’s new #PeoplingBlog, @lylaahlb.bsky.social takes us through her research on elephants and how they, and their accompanying peoples, served as vehicles for cultural exchange and transmission of knowledge as they traversed land and sea in antiquity: peoplingthepast.com/2025/09/12/b... /1

The 2025/6 #PeoplingBlog season has begun! Please enjoy this timeline cleanse on ancient elephants! 👇

Here's a conundrum... What a great @peoplingthepast.bsky.social post: peoplingthepast.com/2025/09/12/b... . But as full disclosure, the author is an @isawnyu.bsky.social student. I'm her chair (my great honor). So don't believe me, go check it out. (And my congrats/empathy to Lylaah!)

On today’s new #PeoplingBlog, @lylaahlb.bsky.social takes us through her research on elephants and how they, and their accompanying peoples, served as vehicles for cultural exchange and transmission of knowledge as they traversed land and sea in antiquity: peoplingthepast.com/2025/09/12/b... /1

We are thrilled to share that #PeoplingPodcast has been named at #15 in Feedspot's "100 Best Greece Podcasts You Must Follow in 2025"! You can check out the full list here for all the amazing follow suggestions: podcast.feedspot.com/greece_podca...

In celebration of another school year, September’s #ImageOfTheMonth traces the ‘back to school’ phenomenon to the fifth-century BCE. This red-figure cup attributed to the painter Douris prominently displays students, teachers, and the instruments of education. Find out more at peoplingthepast.com!

In celebration of another school year, September’s #ImageOfTheMonth traces the ‘back to school’ phenomenon to the fifth-century BCE. This red-figure cup attributed to the painter Douris prominently displays students, teachers, and the instruments of education. Find out more at peoplingthepast.com!

Mark your calendars! Join us for this workshop packed with incredible scholars 🙏

I am absolutely thrilled to announce the upcoming international workshop Cities on the Edge: Documenting, Preserving & Teaching Endangered Urban Heritage in Egypt, Sudan & Palestine. Oct.31-Nov.1 AUC Tahrir, Cairo + on zoom. Join us! Details + rsvp here: shorturl.at/bnrIZ

What a great way to bring season 4 to a close! Take a moment to listen to our conversation with @yannisham.bsky.social about ethical futures for archaeological practice from the field to the classroom. #CulturalHeritage #archaeology #PeoplingThePast #ColonialLegacies

I chatted with the good colleagues of the @peoplingthepast.bsky.social on decoloniality, the politics of archaeology in the current moment, Palestine of course, and even our fieldwork efforts at Koutroulou Magoula!

For the final episode of #PeoplingPodcast Season 4, we are joined by Dr. Yannis Hamilakis to discuss his vision for a decolonial future for ancient archaeology. peoplingthepast.com/2025/07/29/p... #Ancient #Mediterranean #Archaeology #Decolonialism #CulturalHeritage /1

Hard to believe we’ve reached the end of this wonderful season!