🗣️ new Element in Religion in Late Antiquity! 🗣️ @monikaamsler.bsky.social's EDUCATION IN RELIGIOUS CONTEXTS OF LATE ANTIQUITY ⚡⚡⚡ free through April 8! ⚡⚡⚡ www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Conservatives love to celebrate Robert E. Lee, but in the attempt to respond and dismiss Lee, the liberal response often results in its own historical distortions. #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

A bilingual inscription from the 2nd c. BC, written on a schist stone, discovered in 1960 in Piedmont. This boundary stone delimitated the land of Acisius "Argantomaterecus". One text in Latin with the Latin alphabet and the second in Gaulish with Gallo-Etruscan alphabet. #EpigraphyTuesday

So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

Early Medieval Mosaic with Playful Inscription Discovered in Turkey www.medievalists.net/2026/03/earl... #archaeology #Turkey

::nods approvingly in Isidore of Seville at the logic of both::

Seeking an acting career in New York, Tallulah Bankhead was warned by her father to avoid alcohol and men. "He didn't say anything about women and cocaine."

I guess I didn’t wake up thinking I needed to know the names of the 279 named triremes ⛵️in the 4th century BCE Athenian navy, but it appears we all do. link.springer.com/article/10.1... I do like that 3.58% had animal names like Λεοντῆ (lion skin) and Λέαινα (lioness). Greek epigraphy is fun! 🪦

A large early medieval settlement from the #Merovingian period was discovered in Rolleng (Luxembourg) in 2019. The excavation, which is still ongoing, has yielded around 6000 objects so far. Article in Luxembourgish and German w. link to the French press release: www.rtl.lu/kultur/news/...

Wow, they found medieval painted planks under a house in Toledo! Look, MORE COLOUR ;) www.eldebate.com/espana/casti...

Precisely. The subject of one of my favorite pieces by Lynn Hunt, which I love teaching

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 489 hodie breviter ningit, itaque Silvius foris festinat et traheam novam experitur. (Today it's snowing for a little while, so Silvius hurries outside and tries out his new sledge). carpe nivem! (Seize the snow!)

[old news]Roman mosaic in Britain reveals a 2,000 year old Trojan War secret | ScienceDaily www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

!!! a new manuscript was recently discovered written in the Syrian Monothelite community in the early 700s that describes the end of the Roman / Sassanian war *and the rise of Islam in the Levant!* www.medievalists.net/2026/02/prev...

New discovery: During excavations in Cologne, archaeologists have unearthed a lararium, a household shrine, dating back to the 2nd century. This discovery is considered unique north of the Alps. Similar examples were found in Pompeii and Herculaneum. www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft... 🏺

February 9, 71 CE: A Roman military diploma notes: Liccaius, veteran of the Classis Misenensis (“Fleet of Misenum“) received citizenship, along w/ land, right to marriage, & citizenship for his children & wife. 5% of American troops are foreign born. They’re not guaranteed citizenship (RMD IV 204)

Xenophanes adds: “But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to write with their hands and do the works that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.” [fr. 15]

After reindexing the Roman Republican coins in the ANS database, there are 350 (up from 123) objects featuring architecture, after NLP-derived concepts in descriptions like 'temple' link to Wikidata. The 123 previous objects contained the word 'architecture' explicitly in the textual description.

Coptic spell to Acquire a Beautiful Voice, 6th–7th century CE, Egypt, ink on papyrus, 37.3 x 25.4 cm (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven) archives.yale.edu/repositories...

Nearly finished reading all 59 (!) essays in the Centenary issue of Speculum. And I have to say that this paragraph (to me, someone utterly clueless about music history) has been one of my great delights. Camprudi, "Unwriting the History of Medieval Music," www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.....

I haven't felt this seen in a while. Highly recommended! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...

Fascinating glimpse into everyday Roman life: This samian ware bowl was repaired with lead rivets, clear evidence that it was valued enough to mend rather than discard. The repair reflects either the practical mindset and economic realities of a Roman household, or it may have been a...🧵1/3 📷 me 🏺

A blast from my past - the Medieval Soldier database takes nearly 300,000 military service records from 1369-1453 and makes them available as a searchable database. An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️

Delighted that from January 2026 all research articles published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org will be Open Access view.updates.cambridge.org?qs=85c24bbd7...

Omg this is great. The initial reading is so bananas www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/ifa...

There is and was only one Curtis Lemay and one Thomas power Jr. So why is every Hollywood portrayal of the SAC/STRATCOM commander the same: a man deep in Nebraska who is ready to initiate Armageddon at a moments notice without deliberation or hesitation? I explore in my latest⬇️

I’m delighted to hear that the translation has been useful! You can find it and many others by myself and @ralphtorta.bsky.social here: salutemmundo.wordpress.com/primary-sour...

Pourquoi lire (ou relire) Marc Bloch aujourd’hui ? C’est la question que pose ce petit livre qui vient de paraître aux Presses Universitaires de Lyon, à l’occasion du centenaire de la première publication des Rois thaumaturges. Petit thread ⬇️

Kind of crazy that the last papal dispensation for assisting crusades in Iberia wasn't abolished until Vatican II in 1965. Next they'll tell me the knightly orders are still around.

Unexpectedly, the OA version of "Mediterranean Connections. The Frankish Kingdoms and the Roman Empire (476–756)", The Medieval Mediterranean 145 (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2025), is already out! (first they told me 27.11, then 30.10) ...Download: brill.com/display/titl...

God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is out in the real world with @universitypress.cambridge.org! I have some extra, so retweet this by the end of Oct. 19 if you’re interested in receiving a copy! Book info here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

I am very much looking forward to this workshop at which I am speaking in Bonn in November, organised among others by @akjp89.bsky.social, and funded partly by @dependencybonn.de

Usually, to show an author love, the first rule is: buy the book. And, you can totally buy this book---but, it's also available OA, which means you can in a few weeks' time get it for free. luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1... So, the updated rule: to show an author love, get her book and read it!

Forthcoming: "Women in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Studies from Western Europe and North Africa", eds. Éric Fournier and Maijastina Kahlos, www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

This final post from Kaleb Horton is very beautiful and hits hard. This is just so sad. RIP.

New pod! Mike interviews Tina Shepardson about A Memory of Violence: Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious Difference in Late Antiquity. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0HyD...

if you know anyone who might be interested, please circulate this Call for Papers: "Rethinking Popular Religion from Late Antiquity to the Early Medieval Period" 📍Venezia / Università Ca' Foscari / 12-13th March 2026 💣 deadline: 30th September 2025 #medievalsky #cfp #Venice @rmblf.bsky.social

New book: Christine Shepardson. A Memory of Violence: Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious Difference in Late Antiquity (University of California Press, 2025) maryjahariscenter.org/blog/a-memor...

A marvellous scene of daily life for #ReliefWednesday: A #Roman funerary relief depicting the transport of two (wine?) barrels on a four wheeled cart pulled by two oxen. A #dog, probably the driver's beloved companion, is sitting on the barrels. 🧵1/2 🏺 #archaeology

New discovery: Archaeologists have uncovered a rare, intact Etruscan chamber tomb – a discovery hailed as one of the most significant finds in recent decades for understanding the ancient pre-Roman civilization.  news.web.baylor.edu/news/story/2... 🏺

During the early Iron Age, the Pomeranian culture in Poland developed distinctive clay vessels for cremated remains, influenced by southern European cultures such as the Etruscans. These urns are characterized by human faces and hat-shaped lids, and are.. 🧵1/2 📷 me 🏺

I have a joke about Tlaloc, but I'm not skinny enough to tell it.

"And so the the riches of the greedy Pharaoh were carried off and, seeing [the Hebrews], you might well have come to the conclusion that he was paying the price that had been assessed for their slavery's long toil." - Avitus of Vienne, De spiritalis historiae gestis, circa 500

Post a banger that is not in English youtu.be/Y4A2pMn5iuA?...