At the Roman site of Olbia (pleiades.stoa.org/places/471987) near Arles (France), archaeologists have found hundreds of burials where funeral pyres facilitated cremated remains of persons and then were turned into tombs on the site of the pyre 🔥 . www.inrap.fr/pratiques-fu...

I wrote about Roman curse tablets in Ancient History Magazine - available now! www.karwansaraypublishers.com/en-gb/produc...

Check out this latest research blog from the very excellent Seeing The Dead project in York. It's an account of what we found when removing the upper part of a Roman gypsum cast which hadnt been moved in 150years. seeingthedead.ac.uk/blog/excavat...

📯🏺🏛️ Our @universitypress.cambridge.org book "Senses, Cognition and Ritual Experience in the Roman World" is #OPENACCESS ! 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/books/s... #archaeology #sensoryarchaeology #senses #cognition #cognitivescienceofreligion #ritual #religion #classics #ancienthistory #romanhistory

Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️

Starting next Thursday at 5:30pm BST (9:30am PST), the Badè Museum will kick off it's new Lecture Series. Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Research Facility @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, the Series will explore Disability in the Ancient Middle East and Mediterranean. (1/4)

Are you working on relations between bodies (living/dead/human/animal/other!) & ritual in the #ancient #Roman world? If so, maybe you'd like to submit a 300-word abstract for the session 'Bodies in Ritual Practices' at RAC/TRAC Aarhus, 21-23 May 2026?! See www.romansocietyrac.ac.uk/ractrac-2026...

Saw this and thought of you @tony-potter.bsky.social!

Probably a long shot, but does anyone have an electronic copy that they’d be willing to share with me of Friedhelm Prayon (1975) … “Frühetruskische Grab- und Hausarchitektur” I had copies saved on a flash drive, but it’s now corrupted & I can’t access it 😑

Just discovered that @drblankam.bsky.social and Abigail Graham's *Senses, Cognition, and Ritual Experience in the Roman World* with @universitypress.cambridge.org is OPEN ACCESS! Be sure to download. It's outstanding. www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

Here's your annual reminder: whether you received A-level results today, years ago, or never, there's space for you at the @openuniversity.bsky.social!

Publication day! Just in time for essential summer reading (preferably by a pool with a cool drink). @bloomsburyclass.bsky.social @openthanatology.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/roman-mou...

Repost of today’s astonishing artifact since the image didn’t come through earlier. 🧪🏺

Glad to see Debby Sneed's, Cecily Bateman's and I's co-authored Subject Profile on Disability in Antiquity for The Classical Review being published online and #OpenAccess today by Cambridge University Press. You can read the full article via the following link: doi.org/10.1017/S000...

This whole thread is full of truth. ECRs are the single-use plastic of the UKHE sector and no-one is doing a damn thing about it.

For those in need of a smile, a reminder that one 19th-century name for a penguin was ‘arsefoot’.

The BBC series ‘Pompeii: The New Dig’ just won a Gold Tower at the New York Festivals TV & Films Awards!🏆 Well deserved honour for all who brought the wonder of an excavation to life through those who worked on site & the incredible stories they unravelled tvfilm.newyorkfestivals.com/Winners/Winn...

Not long til publication (10/07/25) @bloomsburyclass.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social. Appendices are already available online. So if you're desperate to know (and who wouldn't be!) how often Roman mourners pulled their hair, groaned and so forth, see www.bloomsbury.com/uk/roman-mou...

Reminder that the call for these scholarships is open! Deadline 4pm on 3rd June!

Great to see this out. Thanks due to the editors. And its Open Access, with a full PDF on the publisher's website: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Elated that our book “Senses, Cognition, and Ritual Experience in the Roman World” is featured among new publications at the Uncommon Senses V conference at @concordiau.bsky.social If you are here stop by Molson building 9th floor lobby to check it out! www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

what a fantastic thing!! Grants for state school teachers to do an Open University Classics MA! I am doing my MA in Classical Studies at the OU right now, it is wonderful, please PM me if you know someone who might be interested in doing this and would like to talk to a student on the course

Applications are open for MA studentships in Classical Studies at the Open University! Open to: - teachers in state schools/sixth-form colleges looking to develop provision of classical subjects - students from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic background More info: www.open.ac.uk/blogs/classi...

I'm excited to announce my co-editor & I are hosting a virtual author panel for "Disability in Ancient Egypt and Egyptology: All Our Yesterdays," on May 21st. Come listen and join our brilliant authors for a detailed discussion. More information & registration: www.eventbrite.com/e/qa-panel-w...

Spring is a great time to read about the 'planty’ agency of trees, plants, flowers, and fruits in the creation of the Roman funeral landscape 🌷 Check out 'There Buds the Laurel’: Nature, Temporality & the Making of Place in the Cemeteries of Roman Italy' from #TRAJ Vol. 1 doi.org/10.16995/tra...

More than #TinyJoys - massive joy today seeing my brilliant PhD student @lizwebb.bsky.social cross the stage for @openuniversity.bsky.social graduation - so lovely to be part of the ceremony. Huge congrats to all OU students graduating. You are fabulous and have so much to be proud of! 🎉🎓 #OUFamily

It's been so great to finally talk about the Melsonby Hoard. The important message missing from some of the press is the #YorkshireMuseum needs support to secure and conserve it! 1/ www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-the-m...

Friends! At the OU we are going to be running a series of online open days in the Arts and Humanities for Black and Asian students. Come along and find out how the Open University differs from other unis, and whether its accessible distance learning might suit you!👇🏻

Also, because there's a couple of broken links which are waiting to be updated in there, you can find our 'Introducing Ancient Greek' resource - for reviewing letters, sounds, words and word order - here: students.open.ac.uk/arts/openlea...

And we have more resources coming soon, including more OpenLearn courses to take you or your students much further with your Greek learning. And we'd love to hear from you if you find these resources useful! Please message or email me! #AncientBluesky 🏺

We also have a whole host of resources collected on our Learning Ancient Greek page, including supplemental resources for working with the Reading Greek textbook: quizzes, a vocab tester, study guide and language reference book #AncientBluesky 🏺 fass.open.ac.uk/classical-st...

Because I'm updating them today, I'd like to remind #AncientBluesky that we have *FREELY ACCESSIBLE* Ancient Greek resources at the Open University! 🏺 First, we have a 16 hour free OpenLearn course, which takes you from learning the alphabet to reading simple sentences: www.open.edu/openlearn/hi...

Please read and circulate this letter from CUCD and various learned societies in defence of Ancient History and Religion and Theology at Cardiff University cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/03/11/o...

CFP alert: Continuing on from the success of our 2024 in-person event, we are thrilled to announce that we are running a virtual event for 2025! This will be taking place on the 25th June 2025, on Zoom. Deadline to submit your ideas is: 11th April 2025! #DisHist #CFP

Team Open University is back on BBC tonight for the University Challenge quarter-finals. If you watch, remember the importance of widening access to education for all. We are playing for the carers, the prisoners, the disabled, the kids who had to work to support their family and everyone else ♥️

I think this is halfway decent, if I do say so myself

Publication day! If you've ever asked yourself 'hey, I've got all this urine and saliva sloshing around inside me, I wonder if there's anything useful I can do with it?" then this is the article for you!

Not sure I mentioned this before but please join us today for our #AncientBluesky #Material #Religion hybrid seminar 1pm (UK): Patricia Kret (Leiden) on 'Reuse in the creation & use of Greco-Roman amulets'. Drop us an email for the link if you need it. www.openmaterialreligion.org/events-1/amu...

We're thrilled to announce the OA publication of Issue 14 of New Voices in Classical Reception Studies! With three exciting new research articles, plus an editorial reflecting on 20 years of New Voices and remembering our much-missed editor and colleague, Trevor Fear. fass.open.ac.uk/research/new...

We launched the Society for the Study of the Past yesterday at our Palestine event - a response to the fact that our disciplinary associations have failed us. It’s already looking like the only club I want to be in… More coming soon, but for now check it out here: societyforthestudyofthepast.com

Very excited to be involved in this! 🌊

Friends, don’t forget we’re doing this very soon 🇵🇸👇🏻

The Arts and Humanities Alliance have written an open letter to Bridget Philippson, Secretary of State for Education, on the recently announced cuts across the sector. We are concerned that these measures disproportionately affect our disciplines and call for an urgent government review.

Wales deserves a strong capital university, one that trains its nurses; embraces the study of Religion and Theology and of Ancient History; teaches numerous languages, including music; one that does not reduce the Arts and Humanities to an irrelevance.

Please sign and share this student-led petition to save Ancient History here at Cardiff University www.change.org/p/save-cardi...

I will not post much on this topic, but I'm the Head of Ancient History and Religion at Cardiff University. Our staff and students are nothing short of amazing. Those who know me will know that I'm doing all I can.

The DESTRUCTION OF THE HUMANITIES at Cardiff University Management seems to think that Humanities scholars don't know how to read statistics Diving into their proposals shows how they are trying to hide the true extent of damage to Humanities disciplines here /1

The humanities are gutted in Cardiff. These cuts are brutal & will do irreparable harm to education in Wales and UK The goal is to eliminate half or more of all Humanities academic posts across various schools and smush them together into one school On a side note, I might need a new affiliation

Delighted to see our @openuniversity.bsky.social Classical Studies MA feature as one of @naomialderman.bsky.social’s cultural highlights!