Final reminder: closing date is the end of this week - Feb 15th! 👇🏻

In today's #PeoplingBlog, Jesse Obert, Asst. Professor of Ancient Greek History at the University of South Florida, takes us through his research on warriorhood in Crete and the ways in which we can think about war booty through the lens of disability theory: peoplingthepast.com/2026/01/30/b... /1 🧵

🚨 SAVE CLASSICS AND MEDIEVAL STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY! 🚨 University leadership has rejected an innovative new program developed by faculty in good faith, citing budget constraints. This decision would eliminate the Classics major at Calgary! Read more : 👉 www.cac-scec.ca/2026/01/supp...

New issue out with our edited collection, “The Religion of Little Things” ✨

A new translation of an ancient Sumerian tale about a crafty fox 🦊. Clearly has been a long-running trope! news.uchicago.edu/story/uchica...

New Monday, New Article Feature! Today, we're featuring @alexianafry.bsky.social and Eric Trinka's article that helps readers see the relationality that the first four articles of the special issue highlight: (1/3) 🧵 avarjournal.com/avar/article...

Enjoying our latest issue? We'd love to have your work featured in our next one! Our upcoming issue is an open call, submissions due on August 1. avarjournal.com/avar/announc...

Excited to share this article I wrote for the special issue of AVAR journal on migration and mobility in the Ancient Near East: "Archaeology and Migration: The Journey Towards a Relational World". It's open access 🌟

New issue of Avar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Life and Society in the Ancient Near East Vol. 4 No. 1 (2025) #openaccess @avartnp.bsky.social @alexianafry.bsky.social @meganjdaniels.bsky.social @idamhartmann.bsky.social ‬ Mobility and Migration in the ANE avarjournal.com/avar/issue/v...

Posting another incredible picture from Tunisia - the Numidian-Punic-Roman site of Thugga (Dougga), with the Capitoline Temple to Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva at its highest point.

Our article on on child burials at the sanctuary (tophet) at Zitha in southern Tunisia is out! The nature of child burials in Phoenician sanctuaries is a longstanding controversy and this work adds more empirical (osteological ) data to the debate. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Canyons, oases, and desert villages in central western Tunisia

The stunning triple temples to the Capitoline Triad - Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva - at the Roman town of Sufetula (Sbeitla) in central Tunisua

Lots of courses in ancient Greek, Latin, Greek religion, Greek art and architecture, and mythology on this list! Looking for sessional lecturers in the Vancouver area: amne.ubc.ca/about/job-op...

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Fiery-throated Hummingbird, Paraiso Quetzal Lodge #CostaRica #birds #nature #hummingbirds 🌿

It’s #UBCGivingDay! ✨ Support CMS and help drive research that makes a difference! Your gift empowers students, researchers, and practitioners to explore urgent migration challenges, build stronger community partnerships, and shape policies that matter. Donate today: shorturl.at/BKuSg

In The Rain Ruffous Hummingbird hovering in the rain. An interesting fact is that they are a migratory species and the little guy flew to Vancouver Canada all the way from Mexico 🪶📸 by Pete Jankowski from Vancouver , Canada

Ancient Greek and Roman statues were scented, new study says : NPR www.npr.org/2025/03/25/n...

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A new music video just dropped for my single, "Ghost"! It's just under a month until my first album "How Can Illusion Feel So True?" comes out. Excited to share it all with you: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4fh...

Announcing the winners of the 2024-25 CMS International Art Competition! First Prize: Running Home (2022) – Sinenkosi Msomi Second Prize: Burdened (2025) – Moses Ojo Jury Prize: Meskel (2024) – Dani Beyene Congratulations to these outstanding artists! 👏 Read more: migration.ubc.ca/news/discove...

Now available for preorder - The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World by G. E. M. de Ste. Croix

Three-year renewable position in Latin and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at UBC: amne.ubc.ca/job-opportun...

Something lovely for the weekend! 🦛❤️ Acient Egyptian blue faience hippos made by artisans some 4,000 years ago! 📷 by me

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There, there. Don't you fret. Just seven more years and it'll all be over.

“The movement of people, even or especially under duress, is inextricably tied with human progress.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/o...

Petition · Save Cardiff University Ancient History Degree - United Kingdom · Change.org search.app/mhvkW7kfKfNX...

Happy Year of the Snake everyone, here’s hoping we all have a prosperous and rewarding year ahead! 🥰🧡 2025 marks my 4th January theming my monthly ancient myth artwork around the lunar new year🐍 this year is the Python, the great snake Apollo fought for Delphi 🏹 #lunarnewyear #art 🏺AncientBlueSky

Postdoc opportunity in Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University in beautiful Vancouver Canada: www.sfu.ca/hellenic-stu...

Postdoctoral fellowship at the ROM royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/EPYJEU...

I have long had a longstanding fascination with the Greek-Iranian-Indian cultural intersections in Central Asia following Alexander’s campaigns.

My colleague, a scholar of early Christianity, writes pop music!! 🎶👇👇👇 🎵

My draft of a syllabus statement on a.i. for my writing class, for what it is worth:

Principals of Archaeological Stratigraphy (Edward Harris) is available for free download on his website (including Arabic and Japanese): harrismatrix.com/download/ #archaeology The book has also been translated into Chinese.

I love that there is no actual caption to this post. It just is.

An enormous, 2000+ year-old functioning sewer has been discovered in Stratonikeia in Muğla (Türkiye). Plumbing makes the world go round. bsky.app/profile/neor... Stratonikeia was also known as the "City of Gladiators", as many gladiators went there for training. www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...

in 2021 I predicted the Parthenon Marbles would be back in Athens by the end of the 2020s, this “decade of returns” — as we approach the half-way mark of the decade it’s great to see things are on track for that timeline, with sensible leadership and positive thinking in the right places

@ubcmigration.bsky.social is hosting an international art competition on African diasporas!!

That's what I've missed from Twitter - Moo Deng!

Ah yes. I fondly remember living in Australia and finding this motherf—er's killings impaled on the bush in my yard. I thought there was some local mafia sending us a message. Turns out it was just this murder shrike going about his daily business.

Joining in #mosaicmonday today with one of my favourite mosaic shots from Bulla Regia, Tunisia. The shot is at an angle, but the mosaic reads EN ΣΕΑΥΤΩ ΤΑΣ ΕΛΠΙΔΑΣ ΗΧΗ: "Have hope in yourself."

Are you an #archaeologist wanting to learn #QGIS for #archaeology? I have an entire course on YouTube, check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDTY...

Dark, cold Vancouver afternoons call for homemade masala chai!! 🫖