The destruction of the #EastWing is the worst US historical loss to a “planned” demolition since the #SingerBuilding. This did not go through regular channels and is not doing best practices for work on or near a historic building. Anyone telling you otherwise is ignorant or lying. #whitehouse

Why is staying active on social media so difficult? 😆

🎙️ Thrilled to join the third episode of Ingenuity with #ChoraMedia and #Saipem 🔗 Exploring how human ingenuity drives revolutions - shaping our past and challenging us to reflect on progress - is both unconventional and essential 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/0VkE... #ancientgreece #mythology

Never seems good when we see an uptick in web traffic to the primary source "Can a State Constitutionally Secede?" 🫠

Pliny writes to Trajan, asking him for the means to fight fires in Nicomedia. Denied! open.substack.com/pub/jamescov...

So exciting to have the December issue of @historytoday.com in my hands! I wrote an article with the title "Green Danger. The Remarkable Fall of Absinthe: From 'Green Fairy' to Scourge of Society". If you want to know more about this fascinating drink, buy my book #TheHourOfAbsinthe! 🗃️🍸

Carteia in the Illustrated London News, 22 October 1927. via British Newspaper Archives.

Stumbled upon this awesome blog post about corsets and stays. Also, indie authors will continue to write and publish historical romance, so don't worry. thedreamstress.com/2013/08/term...

As I mention frequently re #GameofThrones, folks like my student Savannah Shipman established that rape convictions were higher in 1300s England than U.S. today. Roman law forbade cat-calling women! If we represent the past as undiluted Misogynia, we implicitly excuse current law/norms as "Better."

When the old number GB346 stays on the object better than the new number 927.15.132 you're glad the database is searchable for both! It's not bad really but it happens often. Crossbow fibula from Winchester, UK, 300-400 CE in the @romtoronto.bsky.social collection. #MuseumWork #RomanBritain 🏺

Looking forward to digging into this biography by @porican.bsky.social

Finely crafted terrains for your gaming table.

Lo voy a buscar. Afortunadamente tenemos acceso por acá.

In East Slavic old beliefs, snakes and birds are cult animals. In fact, there is enough evidence to consider that a snake was seen as the totemic ancestor if not by all, than at least by some of the East Slavic peoples. #dailyspooklore #folklore Illustration: Leni Kae

Fascinating new study about #Bes mugs and their use during religious rituals in the religion of #AncientEgypt. #WorldHistory

#Neolithic remains of a figurine from the #Antalya region of Turkey. 📸 My own. #Archaeology #Art #AncientBlueSky🏺

Have a great #RockinTuesday all! These rocks are in Cappadocia, Turkey. It's an amazing place with so many unique rock formations and cave houses.

Well, here it is at last, the latest thing in sports and a stocking stuffer nonpareil

👀 Church Street #Modbury #Devon The remains of a water conduit built in 1708. A gift from Nicholas Trist, Lord of the Manor (as seen in last photo).

This is one of my favorite, low-tech, ways of visualizing the past! Doesn't oversell the reconstruction, shows possible past and present in same view, works, rain or shine and without power.

Still time to register for my free professorial lecture, titled Sidelined: The problematic history of women’s sport. The event will take place on 10 December in the Deeprose Theatre from 5.30pm. Secure your free place via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/professori...

A pair of beautiful #Roman glass cups, in a bluey-green glass with white & gold 'snaking' decoration. Found near Köln (Germany), they're a lovely example of the glassware made by skilled craftsmen on the Rhine - and absolutely do not look their 1700+ years of age! AncientBlueSky

In the Roman republic, Vedius Pollio gained quite a reputation for treating his slaves badly… but it also turns out that Vedius’ dad had been a slave. Someone get Freud on the line! #CheekyFacts #AncientRome #MosaicMonday #AncientBluesky🏺

On the first #MarshallHistory Monday: The city's economy crashed due to the 80s oil bust & it began the #WonderlandOfLights after a letter called for it to renew hope, early guests included Soviets arms control delegates. Wednesday #OksanaBaiul will be part of the lighting ceremony. #MarshallTX

The medieval #battoo is here @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social! I love my new design inspired by this fantastic bat on Digital Bodleian from the Bohun Psalter (now Exeter College MS. 47, f. 21v) 📜🦇🎉

Have you ever wanted to know how long it took to travel in the Roman Empire? ORBIS allows you to choose fastest/cheapest/shortest route & mode of transport. It tells you how long and the cost in terms of boat fares and animal food, lodgings etc. The time of year is considered. orbis.stanford.edu

For our first #historiography Friday we're revisiting #Elagabalus & the establishment of Varian (adj. for Elagabalus) studies & the #Varianist field by #LeonardodeArrizabalagayPrado through a series of conferences which resulted in this work.

1. A valuable clarification by Simon of Saint-Quentin on how much the reception of Mongol envoys cost the treasury of sultan Ghiyath al-Din Kaykhusraw II after his defeat at the battle of Köse Dağ in 1243 and submission to the Mongols (XXXII, 28):

Two Etruscan sarcophagi and eight urns of the gens Pulfna destined for the illegal art market recovered by the Italian police. uk.news.yahoo.com/italy-recove... Look for a video here: www.classicult.it/recuperati-d...

Figurines found around ancient hippodrome - www.hurriyetdailynews.com/figurines-fo...

We're up for the Sustainability award! So we've hosed down #CuratorRob, ironed his corduroy underpants and will be sending him off to the awards ceremony tomorrow to represent us.

Since there's interest in a #WorldHistory Wednesday & my latest follower is Canadian, we'll start with #CanadianHistory & this #WilfridLaurier video by @jj-mccullough.bsky.social. I presented on the depiction of ancient leaders in the Civilization series (thumbnail, right) at SWPACA20.

Amunhotep Son of Hapu and friend

Julia the Elder and Julia the Younger weren’t the only Roman mother and daughter duo who had some things in common. Many years later, Galla Placidia and her daughter both had a bit of a thing for ‘barbarian’ kings! #AncientRome #CheekyFacts #AncientBluesky🏺

Decided to try the "Un-essay" for my intro hist sexuality course. Assignment: identify the most important thing people need to know from what you've learned in this class, & present it however you like. In the works: Alfred Kinsey's Instagram account & board game about (the history of) masturbation.

Black & white mosaic from the of House of Aulus Umbricius Scaurus-Pompeii. Near the marine gate but closed to the public you can glimpse some of these beautiful mosaics from the street - no wonder they call it the @romanpalace.bsky.social of Italy #mosaicmonday

#TombTuesday Red ochre graves from Hartikkala cemetery site in central Finland. These are from the Comb Ceramic Culture in the Neolithic Stone Age. Photos: M. Miettinen.

A 9th Century Old Irish Poem about being safe from Vikings, read in Old Irish (with reconstructed pronunciation) and in Modern English. Written by a monk in the margin of an Irish manuscript of Priscian's Institutiones grammaticae.

"...McCarthy publicly repudiated Eisenhower. But by then, McCarthy, who just a year earlier had been one of the most powerful and popular politicians in America, had lost nearly all of his influence." www.history.com/news/dwight-...

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Greek and Roman texts routinely misrepresent other ancient cultures, both out of propaganda interests and genuine ignorance, and should always be treated as problematic sources for those societies.

I am thinking about doing regular posts along these lines: #MarshallHistory Mondays, #WorldHistory Wednesdays, & #Historiography Fridays. It's a little much for a cat like person such as myself, but if y'all are interested I will give it a try.

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

New side slide project

I've hit both 2K followers & 150 cites for my 1st book, Prostitutes & Matrons in the Roman World, so here's a fun fact! #GladiatorII reminds me of Commodus' real killers, inc. not Maximus but Marcia, a secretly pro-Christian concubine who dressed as a gladiator & was the most powerful woman in Rome.

“Loyalty has become the unspoken condition of managerial favour and professional success. ... Academics perceived to be disloyal are ignored, sidelined and eventually encouraged to leave or forced out altogether.” (David West) #CriticalUniversityStudies demosjournal.com/article/the-...

Super excited to see everyone at SBL/AAR and participate in this session on women and women’s voices in Pseudepigrapha/Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature!