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🚨 NEW INTERVIEW! About a month ago, I was interviewed by Elizabeth Howell for Refractor on the Athribis astral ostraca, the earliest, largest, and most complex corpus of horoscopes from in antiquity: refractor.io/history/anci... #horoscope #egyptology #astrology #astronomy #ancientscience

🪐 NEW LECTURE! If you happen to be in Berlin on the 17th of June, come over to the lecture Kim Ryholt and I will be delivering for the ZODIAC Project research colloquium! Papyri, stars, and Egyptian tombs! 📜🔍 #zodiacproject #papyrology #ancientastronomy #egyptology #berlin

"The beginnings of hieroglyphic writing date back to the birth of ancient Egypt. It was in this period that a series of figurative signs first appeared, mostly depicting animals." 🏜️⚒️🏺🏛️ #Hyeroglyphs #AncientEgypt #Languages #Culture #History #Archaeology By @hypatiaheuresis.bsky.social 👏🏽

This episode epitomizes our approach to discussing films. We're not about nitpicking what a movie gets "right" from source material, but rather we unpack how such differences reflect our current culture & selves. Thanks @hypatiaheuresis.bsky.social for the talk and @realgdt.bsky.social for the film!

We talk the horrors of science, the sins of the father(s) and the benefits of a classical education for developing Creatures, along with all the changes, big and small, between del Toro's adaptation and Mary Shelley's 1818 novel. Listen now at movieswedig.com or wherever you like to listen!

Chug your milk, don your ruffled shirts and get ready to shoot lightning bolts through your lymphatic system as we re-animate Guillermo del Toro' latest creature-feature: Frankenstein! Returning to play god with us is Dr. Marina Escolano-Poveda (@hypatiaheuresis.bsky.social)!

We love talking to @hypatiaheuresis.bsky.social! So much so that we have another convo with her dropping in December:)

In this season's attempt to highlight films that might have fallen under the radar, the Movies We Dig Crew revisits Agora along with special guest, Dr. Marina Escolano-Poveda @hypatiaheuresis.bsky.social. Listen now at shows.acast.com/movies-we-di....

Recordando la ilustración que le hice a la irrepetible @hypatiaheuresis.bsky.social Que tuvo a bien contar conmigo para actualizar su antiguo avatar. Fue un gran honor retratar a una Egiptóloga de su trayectoria y reconocimiento 🩵. #illustratorlife

Calla, que no os he puesto el enlace del Multiverso: ¿Y si Cleopatra hubiera sido supersticiosa? open.spotify.com/episode/7x4f... Con @mdelvado.bsky.social y @hypatiaheuresis.bsky.social En @laventanacadenaser.bsky.social.

Egypt Unearths Its ‘New Rosetta Stone’ Complete Canopus Decree Stela Discovered in Sharqiya by Egyptian Archaeologists. More details shorturl.at/W5SEJ @flintdibble.bsky.social @ticiaverveer.bsky.social @debborahdonnelly.bsky.social @egypto-lou-gist.bsky.social @hypatiaheuresis.bsky.social

The Mayor of Thebes Revealed: Identity of Kampp 23 Tomb Owner Uncovered in El-Asasif. For Details shorturl.at/buVGx #Egypt #Egyptology #Archaeology #Luxor #Asasif #LuxorTimes @hypatiaheuresis.bsky.social @egypto-lou-gist.bsky.social @egyptologylessons.bsky.social @ausegyptology.bsky.social

‼️ NEW LECTURE! 🪐 “Heavenly Bodies: Astrological Physiognomies in Egypt and Qumran”, Marina Escolano-Poveda (Liverpool) and Kim Ryholt (Copenhagen) 📅 Wednesday, 21 May 2025 🕒 18:00 - 20:00 c.t. 📍 Institute for the History of Knowledge, Room 010, Arnimallee 10, 14195 Berlin

This funerary cone belonged to a royal scribe called Ramose, who lived during the reign of Taharqa (25th Dynasty). The name of the king appears in a cartouche in the fourth column, followed by that of Ramose. Both are identified as mAa-xrw “justified”, indicating that they were deceased. (1/2)

¡UN AÑO MÁS, FELIZ DÍA DE STAR WARS! 😄 Un año más, es 4 de mayo, el día de Star Wars (“May the 4th be with you”), así que si queréis decir “que la fuerza os acompañe” en egipcio a vuestros amigos, aquí tenéis cómo 😉 #StarWars #maythe4th

@hypatiaheuresis.bsky.social Hey look your book showed up on Justin Sledge’s latest video about Petosiris!

A few days ago, I found a #manicule on the margin of my copy of Giambattista della Porta’s De Furtivis Literarum Notis (1563), and I asked for bibliography that would allow me to learn more about manicule typologies. Several people recommended Sherman’s Used Books. Thanks a lot! 📚 #bibliophile

No one: Me: What if I used my @effinbirds.com postcards like Oracle cards Cards: lol no

digi.vatlib.it/about free access to the Vatican Library’s digitized collections, including the illuminated Vergilius Vaticanus: digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat... Pictured below, folium XIIr, containing Aeneid 1.248ff.

Huge congratulations, Dr Louise O’Brien!!! 🎓🎓🎓

📢¡NOVEDAD EN PREVENTA!📢 Ya tenéis disponible, en preventa en nuestra web, un volumen al que le hemos puesto todo nuestro cariño y afecto. Todos los beneficios obtenidos de la venta de este libro irán destinados íntegramente a la Fundació Horta Sud. rhemata.es/producto/lib...

Jeffrey Goldberg: “March 15, 2025: …”

The Nine Muses: may they inspire us in these troubled times. British Library Royal MS 6 E IX; Convenevole da Prato, Carmina regia; c1335 CE; Italy (Tuscany); f.29v-30v

Fellow authors! The @societyofauthors.bsky.social has issued a statement about Meta’s theft of copyrighted books to train its AI. societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...

Next week at @livancworlds.bsky.social!!! #egyptology #academia #liverpoolegyptology

☞ I have a special thing for manicules. What was my surprise yesterday, as I was exploring my new book, when I found this little manicule! I’m in love! By the way, are there any typological studies of manicules that could allow me to date it? #bibliophile #manicules

Today, in Marina’s cabinet of curiosities and library, two new additions: a first edition (1563) of Giambattista della Porta’s ‘De furtivis literarum notis’, an early modern treatise on cryptography complete with three working volvelles and many diagrams; and a wax cylinder for a phonograph.

Ozymandias

New medieval manuscript tapestry blanket! 📖 #bibliophile #bookishdecor

@livancworlds.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social Liverpool Classics and Archaeology continue to rank within the top 100 in the 2025 QS World University Rankings. That’s top 100 of 1,747 Universities across the globe. V proud of this! www.topuniversities.com/subject-rank...

Beautiful tribute to Prof. Ken Kitchen (1932–2025), Professor Emeritus of Egyptology at @livancworlds.bsky.social. news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/03/06/o...

I had the most wonderful time this evening presenting about Egyptian astronomy at Norton Priory! Certainly one of the most beautiful venues I’ve ever lectured at. Thanks to everyone who attended (the room was full!) for their enthusiasm and wonderful questions!

Ready for today’s lecture! 🌟

🚨 It’s today! 🎟️ Tickets: norton-priory-museum-and-gardens.arttickets.org.uk/norton-prior... #egyptology

If you, like me, are a book collector and happen to be in Liverpool, do check this place out: reidofliverpool.co.uk Plenty of second-hand bargains, and pretty interesting Classics stuff too. I got myself this recent 800-page Loeb (incl. Parmenides & Empedocles) today for v reasonable price.

💫 Thoroughly enjoying the longer sunny afternoons at the scriptorium, and getting to use some of my astral instruments to map the data I’m working on, like my replica of the 15th c. astrological volvelle at @hsmoxford.bsky.social, made by the incredibly talented Ukrainian engineer Master Terebrus.

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🌙 Rather apt view from the scriptorium window, as I labour over astronomical topics. The lunar crescent and Venus towards the western horizon.

On Tuesday at the NYPL I could see their Gutenberg Bible. I own a facsimile of the Göttingen copy. While the printed text is the same in both, illumination and rubrics where still handwritten, and notable differences can be seen in the same pages of the New York copy and mine. #bibliophile

This Thursday!

📖💫 I was thrilled last Tuesday to see a copy of Peter Apian’s Astronomicum Caesareum at the New York Public Library, only to find at my return to the UK that my very own copy of a facsimile of the book had arrived! #bibliophile #historyofastronomy

Because every proper bibliophile should own a Gutenberg Bible in some form. 🤓📖

🚨 In less than a month I will be giving this lecture at Norton Priory! "Horus the Red": Perceptions of the Planet Mars in Ancient Egypt 📅 6th March 2025, 7:30pm 🎟️ Tickets: norton-priory-museum-and-gardens.arttickets.org.uk/norton-prior... A repost would be greatly appreciated! 🙏 #egyptology

BlueSkies #Speirgorm above Abercromby Square after a frosty night. The crocuses are only just thawing out but the first daffodil is in full bloom. And we can hear bird's tweeting, even from our offices!

🚨 TOMORROW! Liverpool Egyptology Seminar @livancworlds.bsky.social! The ostraca from Hut-Repit/Athribis in Upper Egypt – glimpses into everyday life in the Graeco-Roman Period Sandra Lippert (CNRS) ⌛️ 6th Feb, 5pm (UK) 📍 Rendall SR10 and online ✍️ REGISTER HERE! forms.office.com/e/mJBHg4JrzR

The Swan Lake 🦢🦢

This article underestimates the number of job losses (already reported elsewhere to have exceeded 10,000) and employs the misleading adjective 'leading' universities (meaning what, to whom?), but if you've been living under a rock and need a quick introduction to the topic, you could start here.

🌞 🌚 Such a beautiful scene! Joseph dreaming with the sun and the moon in the Vienna Genesis, a 6th century manuscript written in Greek that contains the earliest surviving illustrated biblical cycle in codex form. #bibliophile #manuscripts

¿Conoces el Vaso de la Diosa y el Príncipe Ibero de @libisosa.bsky.social? 👉La pieza, objeto ritual y mito aristocrático, constituye uno de los hallazgos más relevantes en iconografía ibérica de los últimos años. Te lo cuento 🧵👇