Woof! Our best friends for a long, long time. 'Bond between dogs and humans dates back more than 15,000 years, study finds' #archaeologynews 🏺 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Feb 6-8 & 13-15 Buninyong Botanic Gardens (near Ballarat, Victoria) - The #Birds by #Aristophanes - book www.trybooking.com/events/landi... Info: timesnewsgroup.com.au/ballarat/liv...

‘These aged care residents in Melbourne were given a rare glimpse of ancient Greece’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Pompeii’s Ancient Garden of Hercules Reopens With Thousands of Flowers Planted. 🏺 #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics #AncientBluesky 🏛️ greekreporter.com/2025/06/18/p...

Program/Registration - 9th International Conference IMAGINES - Wearing Antiquity: modern fashion and the past 2000 BCE-1000 AD - hybrid/London (ICS) - March 19-21 (UK time) ics.sas.ac.uk/events/weari...

If only he’d called the alligator something other than Cliff… www.bbc.com/news/article...

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This is brilliant - the red tie of Damocles, Jan. 2025.

Trump has rescinded Biden’s Executive Order 14087, “Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for Americans,” which included things like lowering state Medicaid costs for the most expensive therapeutics, reducing Medicare payments for proven drugs, and creating a flat, $2 Medicare copay for generic drugs

Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...

Vote for #TLL Thesaurus Linguae Latinae #Latin Word of the Year 2024: parerga.hypotheses.org/3516 * #reteiaclor “to net, fish out” * #retotatototato (onomatopoeic imitation of a wind instrument) * #retroactim “retroactively” * #revaleo “to be well again” * #revolumen “churning”

Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire – Sarah E. Bond - sarahemilybond.com/2024/08/05/s...

The Torlonia Marbles Are Coming to Museums in Chicago, Texas and Montreal - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/a...

I do not normally post Xmassy things but... www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_Ac...

And now a largely unrelated collection of pieces from the MFA (gotta figure out how to link to relevant parties), camels that I saw and loved. This camel, 1-2C CE, from the Han Dynasty.

Humanities Academy announces 41 new Academy Fellows humanities.org.au/power-of-the... - including Prof Tim Parkin @senex64.bsky.social (Melbourne):

A charming little octopus from a Roman villa at Villaquejida, León, Spain. Limestone, 2nd-3rd century AD. Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 my own #MosaicMonday #Archaeology