Given that Odysseus thought the most beautiful man in the world was Memnon the Ethiopian, casting a black woman as Helen may have been the only defensible choice.

Thucydides did not say that the strong will always win out over the weak.

Check out this blog post and the article; driving slowly around Examilia with Tim, Lita, David and @billcaraher.bsky.social is certainly preferable to this Examilian mini-tragedy: mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2026/01/20/w...

take once a week or so for best results www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtTp...

Peopling the Past is planning Season 5 of our podcast! We are looking for folks who are interested in appearing as episode guests: the theme of Season 5 will be the relevance of the ancient world to our understanding of important but challenging contemporary issues docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... /🧵

On this day in 2019, the splendid @dimitrinakassis.bsky.social posted this photo of Delphic double rainbows 🌈 on Twitter (taken by Ross Nichol and shared by the Archaeological Museum of Delphi). And I think it’s the only thing I want to repost from Twitter anymore.

February 1 is the deadline to nominate books for the AIA's Felicia A. Holton Award. If you know any books published in the past three years that make bring the excitement of archaeology to a general audience, please nominate them here: www.archaeological.org/grant/holton...

A new and open-access book, "Time of Textiles in Ancient Greece" by Marie-Louise Bech Nosch: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Vegetarian Greek food restaurant called Don't Meat Your Gyros

Super interesting article on the archaeology jobs wiki and trends in archaeology job ads

Elsevier's questionnaire about my (a peer reviewer's) ancestry is pretty strange. "Select all geographic areas from which your ancestors first originated"?

"Much like the forlorn skull of the horse left in a ditch without context, these articles offer little more than what they are. And for that, I’ll continue to enjoy them." mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2025/12/23/m... @billcaraher.bsky.social

I've never lived so close to a What Are We Even Doing Here real estate listing, and I am here, gifting you this experience, make sure to open the pictures www.redfin.com/MI/Ann-Arbor...

An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...

The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.

ROM appoints Kate Cooper as first Nick Mirkopoulos Associate Curator of Ancient Greece & Rome | Royal Ontario Museum www.rom.on.ca/news-release...

Check out the 2025 newsletter of my department (Classics at the University of Colorado): www.colorado.edu/classics/med...

I have a Cyber Monday deal for you: a one-click download of 10 books (a so-called "Dakota Dozen"). No email, sign-up, sign-in, or other information required. Click. Download. Unzip. Read. Free. #OpenAccess #CyberMonday #FreeBooks mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/c...

Delouse and Guitar

📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣 "The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct" Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu

The cover of my forthcoming book, out in February/March. #dogs #Roman-Britain #animalturm #archaeology

Or you could, you know, talk to your friends

Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto

"There are only so many selfies, photos of my dog, and funny-shaped carpet stains I can share before I come off as a shallow, boring influencer. So, I decided to post an image in my dump of a book a roommate left behind—The Picture of Dorian Gray."

Happy to see my book reviewed in @antiquity.ac.uk!

The Greek newspaper @kathimerini.gr ran a story about our ongoing XRF study of the Linear B tablets from Pylos: www.kathimerini.gr/culture/5638...

I'm compiling some statistics about the proportion of articles about Aegean prehistory in major American journals (it's about 15-20%) and every so often, you get an issue that's all Aegean all the time (ajaonline.org/toc/1183/):

So often I went from Berlin to #GöbekliTepe in the past 20 years or so - but finally the Tepe is coming to Berlin! 😉 🏺 www.trtworld.com/article/a7e6...

Ralphie! @iotasubscript.bsky.social

Habemus Ralphie (no I'm not going to try to Latinize Ralphie): cubuffs.com/news/2025/9/...

📕 #BookReview How has the rise of commercial ancestry testing affected ancient DNA studies? Can past lives become props in modern-day ethical and cultural debates? Explore all this and more in Matthew David Teasdale's review of 'The trouble with ancient DNA' by Anna Källén 1/2

Magnitude : 5.1 Region: *Aegean Sea* Time: 2025-09-08 21:27:57 UTC Epicenter : 24.09°E 38.20°N Depth: 10 km *First posted at: 21:30 UTC* https://geofon.gfz-potsdam.de/eqexplorer/events/gfz2025rqkg/general ##GEOFON ##GFZ ##earthquake ##magnitude

the 16th colloquium on Mycenaean studies (basically Aegean scripts) begins in two days in Madrid: www.uned.es/universidad/...

Penelope Mountjoy obituary | Archaeology | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

‘Even if the coastline we know is young – its features only relatively stable for the last five or six thousand years – mental traces of earlier configurations survive.’ @josephinequinn.bsky.social on the ancient coast: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I'm excited to announce that the Palace of Nestor IV is officially out, and thanks to a grant from the Packard Humanities Institute, it is being made available from Lockwood Press for only $100 and is being distributed as an eBook for free! www.lockwoodpress.com/product-page...

The hero we need

"...most faculty have given up on 'cop shit' in their classroom a long time ago. My goal is not to 'catch' my students cheating, but to create situations where cheating isn’t seen as a viable recipe for success in the class." mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2025/08/14/t...

Humanities' teaching subsidize STEM at universities is actually a "everybody subsidizes professional schools' and the engineering college's teaching." profession.mla.org/the-humaniti...

Archaeology defined as a hauntology of remains. A theoretical statement grounded on my work on ruins as well as my recent work on the remnants of contemporary migration. Part of a great volume! Grateful to the editors and to many colleagues who helped out! www.academia.edu/143309448/Ha...

Adobe Acrobat suggested that its AI assistant could offer me a summary of an academic article I was reading in Hebrew. I clicked. Here’s what it gave me. Thanks but no thanks.

Current international frameworks for heritage are products of nationalist logic— archaeology is absorbed by nations as part of their validation among their peers. In colonized countries, this perpetuates the violence of dispossession of colonial “conquest”. 1/

I'm doing this in ten days (free, online, registration required): www.getty.edu/calendar/art...

This was a fun little discovery this morning at the Melissa bookstore in Athens:

100% this: '“May your work be less relevant” is what academics should wish for each other, in my opinion' donnazuckerberg.substack.com/p/the-joys-a...

@robertmays.bsky.social where did you eat in San Sebastian? In 2016 I went to Martín Berasategui and Asador Etxebarri in Axpe. Both were unbelievably good

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...