Watching 'Ancient Rebellions, Lasting Echoes' presented by Barry Strauss. #AncientBlueSky www.jackmillercenter.org/get-involved...

"The findings from the excavation ... suggest that in the late Iron Age (approx. 1-400 CE) a significant fortified site existed at the Stülper Huk [near Lübeck]." #AncientBluesky www.uni-kiel.de/en/details/n...

Searing review of Stephen Fry's 'Odyssey' by a libertarian critic: libertarianism.uk/2025/09/28/s...

"Around 30,000 years ago, a hunter-gatherer left behind what may be a "personal toolkit" in what is now the Czech Republic, a new study finds. ... The "kit" contains 29 stone blades and bladelets that were found clumped together." www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Thank you, dear readers! Four of my books appear in the Top 100 Best Sellers in Ancient Rome Biographies list on Amazon today! I appreciate every one of your book purchases. @penandswordbooks.bsky.social @casematepublishers.bsky.social #AncientBluesky

Tollund Man A 'bog body' dating to c. 405-380 BC, Tollund Man appears to have been ritually killed before being laid in a fetal position. His last meal, eaten 12-24 hours before death, consisted of burnt porridge of barley, flax, wild seeds, and sand. My 📽 | Ref. Museum Silkeborg - Hovedgården

Tony Harrison. RIP. I thoroughly enjoyed his translation of Aeschylus's "Oresteia".

The stunning reproduction wall paintings at Getty Villa at Pacific Palisades, California. They demonstrate the visual opulence—floors, walls and ceilings—of some villa homes of Roman aristocrats in the C1st AD. Photo is my own, taken in 2017. #FrescoFriday #Roman

"The marble sculpture, discovered at Chersonesos Taurica in Crimea in 2003, has been identified as a woman named Laodice ... daughter of Heroxenos. She was married to Titus Flavius Parthenokles, whose family was one of the most powerful in Chersonesos." www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...

Just voted in the Royal Historical Society (@royalhistsoc.org) Council Elections 2025. royalhistsoc.org

"A million-year-old human skull found in China suggests that our species, Homo sapiens, began to emerge at least half a million years earlier than we thought, researchers are claiming in a new study." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Who still has their AIRFIX Romans? Or Ancient Britons?

For fans of 'Spartacus' (I'm not one). www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/s...

"Archaeologists have cleaned the lamp [found at Cuijk] but are still debating the meaning of the decoration. "Some think it might depict Bacchus," the ancient god of wine and debauchery, van Kampen said, but "it is probably an actor's mask." #AncientBluesky www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

#OTD 23 September 63 BC, C. Octavius Thurinus was born. From 27 BC he known as Imp. Caesar Divi Filius Augustus. This is me with a bust of the emperor at The British Museum (GR 1879.0712.9 Sculpture 1879). Photo is my own, taken 2019. #AncientBluesky

In this episode of @BBCInOurTime, "Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek biographer Plutarch (c46 AD-c120 AD) and especially his work 'Parallel Lives' which has shaped the way successive generations see the Classical world." #AncientBluesky www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Wishing my Jewish readers a Happy Rosh Hashanah! For your holiday reading, consider 'Bar Kokhba: The Jew Who Defied Hadrian and Challenged the Might of Rome', just $11.99 today. www.amazon.com/Bar-Kokhba-D...

Just submitted a feature-length article to @ancienthistmag.bsky.social on how Tiberius Caesar was slandered by Roman historians after his death. Look for that in the next issue. #AncientBluesky commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Po...

Now with three 5-star reviews, TIBERIUS is back in at No. 1 "New Releases in Ancient Rome Biographies" on Amazon! Thank you dear readers! @penandswordbooks.bsky.social @casematepublishers.bsky.social #TIBERIUSbio

“For the “Gladiators of Britain” exhibition, he [Michael Neilson] was tasked with creating a reconstruction of The Hawkedon Helmet, the only Roman Gladiator helmet to be found in Britain.” #AncientBluesky m.youtube.com/watch?v=1f77...

And another 5 Star review for TIBERIUS on Amazon USA: "It's a very good book ... The Assessment was, as expected, a great summary of the book." Thank you David Emery! #TIBERIUSbio Publisher @penandswordbooks.bsky.social, distributor @casematepublishers.bsky.social. www.amazon.com/gp/customer-...

Harpocrates, 'Genius huius loci', shown naked with his head encircled by a chaplet and a twig in his right hand. He approaches an altar, on which there are fruits and eggs, guarded by a serpent. From #Herculaneum, AD 45-79. Photo is my own, taken April 2021. #FrescoFriday

And goodnight from Austin, Texas! Photo is my own, taken September 2025.

Another 5 Star review for TIBERIUS, this one on Amazon UK: "What a great book! The amount of research performed was incredible and you can tell. I particularly like how the myths are challenged." Thank you, Nathan Batchelor! #TIBERIUSbio www.amazon.co.uk/gp/customer-...

What they're saying about TIBERIUS (@penandswordbooks.bsky.social). #TIBERIUSbio

On this the 2011th anniversary of the accession of Tiberius Caesar as second 'princeps' of the Roman Empire, I repost a review I did on Iskander Rehman's book 'Iron Imperator' for @warontherocks.bsky.social. #AncientBluesky warontherocks.com/2025/05/reth...

On this the 2011th anniversary of the accession of Tiberius Caesar as second 'princeps' of the Roman Empire, I repost an article I wrote for @historia-hwa.bsky.social: 'Tiberius: 2,000 years of slander'. #AncientBluesky historiamag.com/tiberius-200...

On this the 2011th anniversary of the accession of Tiberius Caesar as second 'princeps' of the Roman Empire, I repost an interview I recorded with The History Network for Ancient Warfare magazine: #AncientBluesky thehistorynetwork.org/aw352-tiberi...

On this the 2011th anniversary of the accession of Tiberius Caesar as second 'princeps' of the Roman Empire, I repost an article I wrote for @penswordbooks: '10 Historical ‘Facts’ About Tiberius Caesar That Are Actually False'. #AncientBluesky www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/blog/10-hist...

#OTD 17 September AD 14, Tiberius Caesar Divi Augustus filius Augustus (né Ti. Claudius Nero) became 'princeps'. He would lead the Roman Commonwealth ('Res Publica') for 22 years. The author of TIBERIUS (@penandswordbooks.bsky.social) stands beside his bust at The British Museum. #AncientBluesky

#OTD 17 September AD 14, the Roman Senate declared Augustus a god, Divus Augustus. Photo is my own. #AncientBluesky

On Facebook I was asked: "What was your hardest history book to write and why?" I replied: "Probably AUGUSTUS AT WAR: I had to prepare year by year campaign histories for 31 BC through AD 14, and profiles (with references) for some 90+ named legates, prefects and allies." #AncientBluesky

TIBERIUS has sold out at @casematepublishers.bsky.social but more are on the way from @penandswordbooks.bsky.social. You can still find a few copies in the book distribution channel.

The magnificent altar-shaped tomb of C. Iulius Alpinus Classicianus with its precision-cut lettering. Originally set up in Londinium, it is now in the collections of The British Museum (1852,0806.2). Photo is my own, taken January 2023. #EpigraphyTuesday #archaeology

I suspect it was like this for many living on the border of the Roman Empire where there was no defensible structure (like Hadrian's Wall) or natural feature (such as a river). www.texasstandard.org/stories/sout...

"Southeast Asians created the oldest known human mummies roughly 7,000 years before Egyptian mummies debuted, researchers say." #AncientBluesky www.sciencenews.org/article/olde...

A glimpse of a couple of the pages I wrote for the news department of Ancient Warfare issue 103. Grab your copy from your newsagent/stand or direct from Karwansaray Publishers.

Interesting AI animation on Facebook: do you think this represents the living Caesar Augustus? www.facebook.com/share/p/1GBg...

"No physical [Roman] structures were ever found in Sunderland. One theory is they were part of a bridge pier. Although more research is needed, ... there were "clear parallels" with a Roman bridge in Cuijk in The Netherlands." #AncientBluesky www.bbc.com/news/article...

"The lining of a rare Roman lead coffin from the 4th Century is to be conserved for future generations. The coffin lining, unearthed in 1985, is currently on display in The Novium Museum, Chichester." #AncientBluesky www.bbc.com/news/article...

"According to a study published in @antiquity.ac.uk, the skull belonged to a six-year old brown bear from the Balkans, who chewed on the bars of its cage between fights against gladiators." #AncientBluesky www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

"Archaeologists in Albania have unearthed a significant Roman burial chamber, dating from the third to fourth century AD, the first of its kind found in the Balkan country, once part of the Roman Empire." #RomanSiteSaturday www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

#OnThisDay - 13 September - in AD 81 Titus Caesar Vespasianus, the second of the Flavian emperors, died after a reign of two year, two months, and twenty days (Dio 66.26.4). #AncientHistory 🏺 Image: RIC 2.1 Domitian 147; British Museum (R.10761). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

The reconstruction of the original polychromy of the statue of Augustus of Prima Porta by Jesús Mendiola and Emma Zahonero of MV Arte. The date of the marble statue is dated to after 20 BC, likely a copy of an original bronze sculpture. #AncientBluesky www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzeJ...

Despite the fame of Pompeii, very little excavation has been done on the north slope of Vesuvius, referred to as the “dark side” of the volcano. There, new archaeological explorations of a magnificent villa have revealed it was built *after* the A.D. 79 eruption. archaeology.org/issues/septe...

"Excavations in York have revealed skeletons with brutal injuries, including bite marks from a large cat. Could these be the remains of gladiators forced to fight in the arena?" #AncientBluesky www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3Ks...

"The quake of July 21, 365 A.D., caused widespread destruction across the region, and Heraclea Sintica was among the cities affected. The newly studied remains mark the first confirmed earthquake casualties identified in this Roman town." #romansitesaturday www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/eart...

The Chankillo site in Peru has 13 monumental towers believed to be part of the oldest solar observatory in the Americas. Recent excavations there have turned up a unique ceramic ensemble of warriors in full combat. archaeology.org/news/2025/09...

"Peñico, a 3,800 year-old city of Peru's ancient Caral civilisation ... features 18 structures, including ceremonial temples and residential compounds. Most importantly, it provides fresh evidence that the Caral people adapted to climate disaster." #AncientBluesky www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

TIBERIUS is back in at No. 1 in "New Releases in Ancient Rome Biographies" on Amazon today. Thank you dear readers! #AncientBlueSky @penandswordbooks.bsky.social @casematepublishers.bsky.social