**Lecture** If you are in Portland, OR on **Mon, Mar 16, 7:15pm** come to @reed.edu and hear about the 2026 field season at Amheida. “Making the Desert a City: Recent Discoveries from Ancient Trimithis in the Dakhla Oasis of Egypt.” #amheida2026 @archaeological.org events.reed.edu/event/making...

Well, this may or may not be it for our season. We may get an extension, but this is likely it for B10 this year. We got to the floors in Rms 5, 6, 7, 9, and 10, but ran out of time for Rm 2. So, for now, we backfill to dig another day, insha’allah. #amheida2026 #romanegypt #archaeology

We got some nice coverage about the four lovely students from Matrouh University who visited us this year to gain archaeological experience! English: mau.edu.eg/posts/detail... Arabic: www.almasryalyoum.com/news/details... #amheida2026 #romanegypt #archaeology @isawnyu.bsky.social

This week we are hosting four fantastic Egyptian students from #matrouhuniversity, Arwa, Nadia, Rahma, and Manar, during their holiday break. They are learning about everything from stratigraphy, to to ceramics, to conservation—and clearly having a blast! #amheida2026 #dakhlaoasis

**Dakhla Bird Quiz** Who am I? Answer tomorrow! #dakhlaoasis #ancientbirds #amheida2026

Jigsaw puzzle! Much of the painted ceiling in Rm 2 inverted as it fell; we are recover what we can, incl. pieces w/ geometric patterns and figural imagery. This is a rescue and documentation operation, but we are glad to have conservators Mahmoud Samir and Jen Porter for this collapse. #amheida2026

A meditation on collapses. Yes they’re in your way, but they tell a story of unbuilding. They have a beauty of their own, frozen cascades of bricks, a record of a lonely day when a vault or wall fell without a witness—only now someone sees the moment they finally gave way. #amheida2026 #romanegypt

The Royal Ontario Museum added thousands of objects to their only museum catalogue last year—which now totals almost 90,000 objects. My favorite remains this late antique child’s sock from Roman Egypt. 🧦 collections.rom.on.ca/objects/3736... The ancient world was full of kids and color.

This year in B10 has been v. productive, esp. for ostraca! We have recovered > 120 in 3 weeks, incl. some large and interesting accounts, which may constitute a dossier if not ancient archive in Rm 9. Only study will tell us. In the meantime, they must smile for the camera! #amheida2026 #papyrology

It’s another one for the books! The Third Amheida Invitational Football Cup saw the Trimithis Surveyors take on the undefeated home team, the Amheida Pyramids. It was a fierce game that saw excellent play from both returning veterans like Claire Lyman and up-and-coming rookies. #amheida2026

**NEW BLOG POST** Patrick Liu and Patrick Burns on INTERNING IN THE ISAW LIBRARY: DEVELOPING AN ERROR CORRECTION DATASET FOR LATIN TEXTS #isawnyulib #ancientlatin #digitalclassics #libraries @isawnyu.bsky.social @nyulibraries.bsky.social isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog...

New Blog Post from Gabriel McKee and the ISAW library: FROM PROTECTIVE COLOPHONS TO RFID TAGS: A BRIEF HISTORY OF LIBRARY SECURITY. isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog... #isawnyulib #isawnyu #nyu #libraries #ancientbooks @isawnyu.bsky.social @nyulibraries.bsky.social

Medicina nei Secoli: Journal of History of Medicine and Medical Humanities Vol. 37 No. 3 (2025) rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa01/medic... #openaccess

Welcome to Area 11! This is the site’s w. edge, recently revealed by a dune’s passage. This year we will map it (see old plan) & put in a test trench. The surface pottery suggests that it is earlier than the late antique core. It also seems planned, unusual (so far) for #dakhlaoasis ! #amheida2026

The end of 2nd week of excavation; making good progress at B10 removing the collapsed vaults in Rms 5-6 and getting to the occupational levels in Rms 2, 7, 8, 9. We have our work cut out for us consolidating and conserving the painted plaster walls. #amheida2026 #dakhkaoasis #romanegypt

DAKHLA Bird Quiz #2 (2/2). Herodotus’ account was repeated by ancient and medieval authors (eg, 9th-c al-Jahiz, Bk of Animals) and re-popularized by 19th- and early 20th-c. naturalists and travel-writers (like H. Scherren) But scientists say that H. got it wrong. #ancientbirds #amheida2026

DAKHLA bird Quiz #2 (1/2). It’s the “Spur-winged lapwing,” ubiquitous in the #dakhlaoasis. Sometimes identified with Herodotus’ “trochilus,” or “crocodile bird” (2.68), a bird he says had a symbiotic relationship with crocodiles, tolerated because they clean their teeth. #ancientbirds #amheida2026

Great press release about #WashU Classics! Read more here: classics.wustl.edu/news/washu-g... #amheida2026 #archaeology #romanegypt #egypt @isawnyu.bsky.social

Dakhla Bird Quiz #2. What am I? Answer tomorrow. #amheida2026 #dakhlaoasis #ancientbirds #birding #egypt

The oatraka are starting to accumulate, mostly well tags. In Roman Dakhla tenants paid for water partially in kind. “Well tags” were labels for goods paid as rent, e.g., O.Trim. 3.1013, B10, Rm 1 (333/334 CE) embedded in jar inv. 30188. “28th year, Pmoun Psō, Haryotes, 1st (vintage).” #amheida2026

Come visit ISAW and the NYU Press @nyupress.bsky.social at the #aiascs2026! Table 9. New works on #earlychristianity #romanempire #archaeology #papyrology #ancienteducation #romanegypt and the Arabic Library from NYU.

We would love to be at the #aiascs2026 in SF, but #amheida2026 officially kicked off yesterday! Students from #washu helped to clean and prepare the site Building 10 in Area 8. We plan to open at least 2 trenches this Sat. #dakhlaoasis #romanegypt #archaeology @isawnyu.bsky.social

We took #washu students on a field trip yesterday to W #dalhlaoasis to see the temple of Deir el Hagar, the tombs of El Muzzawaka, the site and pyramid of Amheida, and medieval and Ottoman mudbrick city of el Qasr. #amheida2026 #isawnyu

ISAW and NYU Press are pleased to announce the #openaccess digital publication of ‘Ain el-Gedida: 2006-2008 Excavations of a Late Antique Site in Egypt's Western Desert (Amheida IV) by N. Aravecchia. Read the digitial edition: dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/id... More info here: isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog...

Night and Day at the #NYU excavation house in the #dakhlaoasis. Even the moon shadows here are intense! #amheida2026 #romanegypt #archaeology

Happy New Year from the edge of the Roman world! Here’s recently published note on a sandstone block. Lines 2-4 speak about 13 linens as “kalandari(k)a,” which were gifts or new year’s bonuses, usually for officials. Today this καλανδρικόν is for you! See O.Trim 3.8 for more. #amheida2026

Trimithis goes back to the OK, but we only pick up the site’s main temple with this stele (inv. 16309) of Seti II (Dyn. 19) making offerings to Thoth. Thoth was Lord of Trimithis until the 4th c. CE. For more, see An Oasis City (2016): dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/oa... #amheida2026 #dakhlaoasis

O.Trim 3 was published this fall by @isawlibrary.bsky.social and @nyupress.bsky.social , incl Egyptian, Greek, and pictorial ostraca (see O.Trim 3.1062 and 3.1065.) Of course, we hope to find more ostraca this season …and, dear Thoth, 1-2 papyri? 🙏#amheida2026 #papyrology #ancientegypt #dakhlaoasis

The answer is the Little Owl (Athene noctua)! You might recognize that stare from Athenian coins. Owls in ancient and modern Egypt are ill omens—BUT Athena was sometime assimilated to Neith, who was the mother of Tutu, who had a temple in nearby Kellis … a sign of a local support! #amheida26

Where are we? A good question! Amheida is in the western part of Egypt’s Dakhla oasis, which is deep in the Western Desert. The oasis is a huge depression and most sites are tucked up against the ever-present scarp to the north. And the site is huge! #amheida2026 #dakhlaoasis #romanarchaeology

Saw this little guy this afternoon on a walk in the fields behind the house. Any guesses as to what Dakhla denizen this is? Answer tomorrow. #amheida2026 #dakhlaoasis #birdsoftheworld

We are getting the band back together for #amheida2026

Good morning, Dakhla! I am thrilled to announce that we signed our contract yesterday with the SCA and so will be headed back to Amheida. We hope to start work sometime in the next two weeks. Stayed tuned tuned for updates from #amheida2026.

*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

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