Excited for this and hope to see you there too! #carthage

@drmaimusie.bsky.social and me talking about #Carthage on Oct 2nd. Join us!

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The definitive evidence of Captain Janeway's extensive temporal interference 😉 Happy Star Trek Day! 🖖 Neolithic arrowheads on display at Archäologische Staatssammlung München 📷 me #StarTrekDay #Archaeology 🏺

"Not only history reclaimed, this is #history at its best!" Today's book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @gevemac.bsky.social! Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe

Happy Friday Folks!The sun ☀️ is finally shining and I’m super excited to be interviewing @gevemac.bsky.social on her latest book 📕’Carthage: A New History of an Ancient Empire’! A topic close to my heart 💜- reclaiming and re-centring African history. Book here: www.waterstones.com/events/carth...

Upcoming #Carthage book events: Sept. 5th @londonpodfest live with @ancientstristan (tickets shop.kingsplace.co.uk/31650/31654) Sept. 10th @nomad_books 781 Fulham Road, London 6.30-8.30pm Oct 2nd in conversation @maimusie at @waterstones Gower St at 6.30pm (www.waterstones.com/events/searc...)

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Nothing like a little time in #PEI to restore 🇨🇦🌊

Coming up on 5 September! I’ll be at @LondonPodFest at King's Place, 7pm! talking all things ancient CARTHAGE, with History Hit: The Ancients, Tristan Hughes Really hope to see you there! Get tickets 👉 kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/words…

Buon #Ferragosto! Fresco from #Pompeii (possibly from Fullonica of Sestius Venustus) and a unique example of a group of just women celebrating in what looks to be a rather wonderfully rowdy dining scene with upturned glassware, music being played and a woman holding aloft a ladle.

Delighted to find that Dr Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social has a new book out on Carthage which uses the latest archaeological research. Her 2015 book Hannibal A Hellenistic Life is still the best biography of Hannibal for me because it placed him in a wider context than the military exploits.

Why should we care about #archaeology, #monuments, traditions, art, and architecture when survival itself is threatened? Read Morag M. Kersel's blog for the SAA's @saa-aap.bsky.social: ▶️ cup.org/46Ryg9X #culturalheritage #culturalproperty

New episode — a dive in life in ancient #Carthage open.spotify.com/episode/3nbl...

Since Messrs #Netenyahu & #Putin have both drawn from me Carthaginian peace analogies—& the prophetic warning of Bertold Brecht—it is fitting & humbling to commend this outstanding new history of Carthage from @gevemac.bsky.social—who 10yrs ago reframed the way we see Hannibal

While back here in Lunenburg county, Nova Scotia 🇨🇦 for summer I always take a moment to drop into the Laurie Swim gallery where this amazing quilt artist creates beautiful landscapes — stunning

I read a superb new history of Carthage by Eve MacDonald - a finer cicerone than Flaubert - for @thetimes.com. My lead review today: www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

I make it policy to never believe the #Romans Talking about #Carthage #PunicWars

Annoyingly ethical is going on my bio

Love this

This 🧐 A blatant attempt to attack qualified and committed scholars, researchers and public advocates for science — including the amazing toriherridge.bsky.social is insidious — an attempt to silence debate driven by corporate interests.

Of course it doesn't matter WHO is critiquing, it is the criticism that actually matters. When someone goes after the former, you can be pretty sure it's because they can't answer the latter.

Self-promo time — pre-order offer for #Carthage from @waterstones.bsky.social — #summer reads

Yay - celebrating migration, movement and multicultural London and the UK 👏👏👏

Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.

Wise words and insights from @toriherridge.bsky.social

Morning sunshines: Here is a great way for historians, archaeologists, classicists and Egyptologists to do something tangible to help Gazan students in our fields. Only c.2,000£ are missing: We can do this! gogetfunding.com/help-gazan-s...

‘encounters with observable reality are being flatly denied’ 👏👏 … thank you @archiebland.bsky.social for expressing this all so well

🇨🇦 happy #canada day to those who celebrate

So great and congratulations on such a success! #community #heritage @caerheritage.bsky.social

Seems trivial in the face of this horror but if I know one thing from studying Carthage it’s the importance of preserving the counter-narrative, the documentation of the evidence, and bearing witness.

BBC News online coverage, Radio 4 report on site yesterday and today full page spreads in print editions of Western Mail & SW Echo today. Our amazing @caerheritage.bsky.social community dig is in the news! A wonderful, positive story for Caerau and Ely ✊️

New book out just in time for summer hols. The story of ancient #Carthage - from its 9th century BCE foundations to the tragic end, burnt to the ground in 146BCE by #Rome. 700 years as a foundational part of the western Mediterranean and 🐘 🐘🐘🐘 too. Thanks to @Eburybooks for making it all possible

The media should be reminding readers and viewers of this constantly, but it won't: None of the nuclear sites illegally attacked by the US were hidden or secret. All of them operate under expanded IAEA monitoring, as they have for years. The US bombed safeguarded nuclear sites.

We can’t say this enough - stick to facts, repeat and repeat

The interesting thing is that you find the same thing in modern studies of ancient history. Rome “liberates”, while Parthians/Sasanians “occupy”. Rome “attacks”, Sasanians “raid”. Rome pays “subsidies”, Sasanians pay “reparations”.

This week at the University of Cyprus #storypharm

Not true. I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

‘Most of the opprobrium aimed at universities is fantastical. I only wish that academic life was as radical and subversive as its detractors believe.’ Ed Kiely on the dismantling of Britain’s higher education sector: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

#14thICAANE Lyon today and our workshop on #Sasanian archaeology landscapes, ceramics, fire temples and brass this morning

‘“What did people 𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯 by believing in demons?” Brown asked a lecture audience in 1970. He interpreted such beliefs less as a sign of crisis and intellectual decay than as a creative response to social change.’ Diarmaid MacCulloch on the life and work of Peter Brown: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Bronze Age leprosy hitched rides along ancient copper and pottery trade route. www.science.org/content/arti...

I don’t know. I love this Joseph Fasano poem and have it pinned on my office door but I don’t know what to actually do about any of this.

Indeed

#ICAANE in Lyon

Four 7-9th-century Buddhist statues of the looted 'Prakhon Chai hoard' will soon be returned from San Francisco's Asian Art Museum to Thailand www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...

Feels a bit absurd to be promoting this, but there's a 12 month 18/19th C American history post at Cardiff. Deadline 15.06.25. Feel free to msg or contact me via email - [email protected] - for further information: krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

You can argue that Hannibal’s political and military offspring, according to Romans were the Romans who defeated him, and the way he shaped their psyche and memory of power and conquest and justification for conquest 🐘🐘 the knock on impact of epic wars. #Carthage #Hannibal

We’re holding a #eunuch day at @cuhistarchrel.bsky.social with the biggest of the all (maybe?) featuring … Kerder/Kartir (my auto correct keeps writing Kermit) Chief priest, powerful courier, of early Sasanian kings of kings — but was he a Eunuch?