*NEW* ISAW Library Blog Post: ISAW Library hosts 2025 NY Metro Papyrology Workshop. Thanks to all who attended! We are looking forward to new collaborations next year and hopefully our third meeting in 2026! @isawnyu.bsky.social #papyrology isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog...

ISAW library announces the beta of the Digital South Caucasus Collection, an open access digital library of historical and archaeological scholarship related to the ancient South Caucasus (dscc.its.nyu.edu). Read more here: isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog... @isawnyu.bsky.social #archaeology #libraries

The passing of Prof Bezalel Porten (1931-2025) | H-Net

ISAW Library Book Talk: Sarah Bond (Univ. of Iowa) discusses her new book *Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire* March 12 @5:30, ISAW lecture Hall. See link for registration and more information. isaw.nyu.edu/events/isawl...

We are officially coming off of X and focusing our efforts on fostering our archaeology community here! Please share our account around so that we can find our people! We look forward to meeting you all!🏺 #ancientbluesky #archaeology #classicsbluesky

*NEW blog post* The ISAW library announces the deposit of the papers of the NY Society of the Archaeological Institute of America with NYU Libraries. #AIA #NYU @isawnyu.bsky.social isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog...

A bit of news from Pompeii, entirely appropriate for #FrescoFriday 😊 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

*NEW* post from the ISAW Library: Research round-up 2024. Come see what your friendly neighborhood ancient studies librarians have been up to over the past year. And yeah, that’s the right graphic @diyclassics.bsky.social @secret-terror.bsky.social isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog...

*NEW* ISAWLib Blog: Federico Di Pasqua describes his experiments with #generativeAI looking to make @isawnyu.bsky.social data and collections more accessible and useful. He also publishes his draft code for the “ISAW AI Librarian.” #librarydata #nextgenreference isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog...

One of the highlights of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum/Nürnberg: the eagle-shaped fibula from Domagnano, part of a set of jewellery that would have belonged to an Ostrogothic princess or high ranking noble lady around 500 AD. #Archaeology

Headrest https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/17371

Ancient Egyptian Skull Reveals Evidence of Tumor Surgery #Egypt #Egyptology #science #technology greekreporter.com/2024/12/07/a...

El Alamein's ruins offer a glimpse into Greco-Roman civilization and a significant WWII battle #Egypt #Egyptology phys.org/news/2024-12...

NYU museum studies interns Mina Turunc and Madeline Baird worked with ISAW staff to create 2 vitrines of NYU collections materials exploring the myth and history of Madinat al-Zahra. See them on the 2nd fl during public lectures and events at ISAW @isawnyu.bsky.social isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog...

Something fishy A detail of a very fragmentary Coptic plate, probably of the 5th century, the team has found at the Paphos theatre site in Cyprus from post-theatre contexts. It was quite smashed up before amazing conservation work by the team. #archaeology 🏺 #classicalbluesky

Happy Thanksgiving from the Amheida team! Here’s a shot of us excavating rooms 3 and 4 of the church (B7). Now you can give it a whirl thanks to the ingenious Bruno Bazzani! momento360.com/e/u/cdeaa5a6... #amheida #dakhla #egypt #archaeology

Auch diese frühmittelalterliche hölzerne Flasche ist derzeit in "THE hidden LÄND " zu sehen. Sie war einst mit Starkbier gefüllt, das mit Honig angereichert wurde. Die Zugabe von Honig erhöhte den Alkoholgehalt des Bieres und half auch dabei, die alkoholische Gärung...1/2

While the Pergamon Museum continues to be closed for renovations, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Studio Blank, and Pixelcloud have published ‘Babylon Reloaded’ a 3D tour of the permanent Museum of the Ancient Near East exhibition. babylon-reloaded.smb.museum?utm_source=s...

Some of the Paphos Theatre Archaeological Project team slowly revealing a late 4th-early 5th cent mosaic to the west of the theatre. Paphos, Cyprus #MosaicMonday #AncientBluesky 🏺

To everything turn, turn, turn. There is a time to be featured, and a time to end a news cycle with a blog post. Looking forward to the next discovery at #amheida. But if you missed the news: isaw.nyu.edu/news/amheida... @nyupress.bsky.social #egypt #dakhla #archaeology

Interview with Director David Ratzan (ISAW/NYU) on where the NYU Amheida excavations have been and where they are headed in their 3rd decade after their 7th book (Early Christianity at Amheida (Egypt's Dakhla Oasis), A Fourth-Century Church: Volume 1, The Excavations): www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...

Ancient Egyptian blue faience bead in the form of a curled-up hedgehog! 🦔💙 Middle Kingdom, c. 1985 -1650 BC. National Museum of Scotland 📷 by me www.nms.ac.uk/search-our-c... #Archaeology

The program for the Postgraduate Cypriot Archaeology conference (POCA2024) which kicks off later today. I believe zoom registration is still possible. Always inspiring to see the work of the next generation of Cypriot archaeologists 🏺 #archaeology pocadublin24.wordpress.com

Belt buckles with Christian symbols and motifs are frequently discovered in men's graves from the 6th and 7th centuries AD, a time when Christianity was spreading in southern Germany. This particular example, skillfully carved from a whale rib, presents a depiction the...🧵1/2 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

Congrats to Nicola Aravecchia on the publication of Early Christianity at Amheida (Egypt’s Dakhla Oasis), A Fourth-Century Church, Volume 1 (Amheida VII) from ISAW and the @nyupress.bsky.social. Press release here: isaw.nyu.edu/news/amheida...

The NYU Amheida Excavations are pleased to join the Bluesky community! We will be pushing out some updates over the next few days. Looking forward to joining the conversation!