🍿🎬 Curious about archaeology? Join us for fun animated films that dig into the secrets of the past: from excavation to discovery. 🧠 A lively quiz in Greek at the end will put your new knowledge to the test! 📽️ Films in French 🇫🇷 with Greek 🇬🇷 subtitles | Perfect for ages 7+ #aaf2025 #ancientbluesky

Follow @athensarchfest.bsky.social to find out what we have on offer at the Athens Archaeology Festival in just over two weeks’ time! #ancientbluesky #classicsbluesky #outreach #festival

A moment for the venue…🤩 #aaf2025 #athens #archaeology #archaeologybluesky #ancientbluesky

#heraklionmuseum on Crete is full to the brim with incredible things! Here are some beautiful stone vases from the Neolithic period made by local craftspeople using colourful stone 😍 #archaeologybluesky #crete #greece #museums 🏺🪨

Our website is live! Go check it out for all the info you need about the first ever Athens Archaeology Festival! 🏺🥳

The Parthenon today, in front of a beautiful sunrise! 🌅 🏛️ But did you know that this Classical temple for Athena was later converted into a church and then mosque? Join us on Sat 18th October to learn more about its fascinating history! #athensarchaeologyfestival #aaf2025 #archaeologybluesky #greece

What you may NOT know about this labour is that the Hydra had a crustacean sidekick 🦀 Karkinos was the name of the giant crab that nibbled the ankles of Herakles as he fought the multi-headed monster. Join us at the inaugural Athens Archaeology Festival in October to learn more about Herakles 🦁

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A lovely day around the Attic coast. Here I am teaching our summer school undergraduate students at Sounion. Guess what I’m pointing at 😅 #archaeologybluesky #greekarchaeology

Two months to go until we bring you the inaugural Athens Archaeology Festival! Give us a follow to stay up to date! 🏺🏛️ #aaf2025

Researchers in Spain Discover the Oldest Greek Marble Altar in the Western Mediterranean. 🏺 #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics #AncientBluesky 🏛️ greekreporter.com/2025/07/05/s...

Thank you to Gordon for asking me to participate on this fun project bringing together industrial archaeology, film, classical archaeology and reception!

Sad to see this unique Minoan monument and important site under threat… www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2025/07... #ancientbluesky #archaeologybluesky 🏺

Protecting humanities isn’t a luxury, we don’t need to choose between STEM and SHAPE - we need both #ancientbluesky #savethehumanities humanities.org.au/power-of-the...

What the Sanctuary of Odysseus Reveals About Ancient Greek Beliefs | TheCollector 🏺 #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics #AncientBluesky 🏛️

#mosaicmonday I saw so many beautiful mosaics during my recent trip to Ravenna! Here is John the Baptist baptising Jesus in the river Jordan personified as Zeus! Ceiling of the Neonian Baptistery, one of the oldest early-Christian monuments in Ravenna (5th century CE). #ancientbluesky #UNESCO

Please go give our account a follow to stay up to date on the new Athens Archaeology Festival, coming to the British School at Athens this October! We have a fantastic line-up of family-friendly activities and will be sharing more details soon #ancientbluesky #archaeologybluesky #thisisathens

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: a glass mosaic face bead. 1st century AD. 📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg

Yeech! In case we need reminding us that it could be grim for gladiators in Roman Britain. KCL's Dr John Pearce is co-author on this grisly and gruesome finding that bite marks on skeletons at York are the first physical evidence of gladiators vs lions. 🏺 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Arlene and Edith are two powerhouses of classics, especially bringing it to people who haven’t previously had access to it. This is an incredible project of theirs - I’m thrilled it’s going so well! www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Anonymous Grant Restores Cancelled NEH Fellowship Funding www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2025/04...

Looking forward to being back in #Athens to give the Australian Archaeological Institute’s annual lecture 🏛️🏺 I’ll be talking about this stunning place among others in ‘Island towers and agricultural landscapes: #ancient #wine & olive oil production in the #Cyclades’ 🍇🍷 7pm, 29 April

Open House Athens is running its free architecture tours of buildings in Athens this weekend and the BSA is one of the top 5 places to visit! 🏺🏛️ www.kathimerini.gr/k/k-magazine...

Free museum guides! For anyone interested, the Latsis Foundation provides free pdf guides to several museums and sites in Greece! #archeologybluesky #greekmuseums 🏺 www.latsis-foundation.org/eng/e-library

4 days until deadline! 🏺🏛️ #ancientbluesky

Spring has sprung at Sounion! #archaeologybluesky #greece 🏺🏛️

Deadline for applications is 28th March! #archaeologybluesky #ancientbluesky #athens

⭐️ Call for applications! ⭐️ Are you passionate about making archaeology exciting/accessible? We’re looking for interactive workshops for this year's Athens Archaeology Festival, themed Myths & Mysteries, at the British School at Athens!⚡️🏺 More info: tinyurl.com/3a3wdmdr Please share! #ancientbluesky

‘…archaeology offers unique perspectives on humanity’s deep history…How can this perspective be mobilized to affect how we handle the contemporary and future challenges of climate emergency, social inequality, political polarization, and human suffering…?’ Sounds v interesting! #archaeologybluesky 🏺

🌟Brand New Episode - The Far Edges of the Known World with Owen Rees🌟 This interview is a cracker! We’re joined by historian Owen Rees, founder of @badancient.bsky.social to discuss his fabulous book which interrogates the idea of centres and peripheries when in comes to the ancient world.

When I was 29 and studying abroad in Athens, I saw "The Libation Bearers" at Epidaurus in the original Greek. It was a seminal experience of my life. When I think back upon it, which I often do, I'm so thankful: all of the sensory and perceptive experiences of that night are etched in my synapses 😍

Incredible views at the theatre of Epidaurus, famed for its amazing acoustics - thanks to clever design, you can even hear a coin drop on stage from the top row #archaeologybluesky #ancientbluesky #greece 🏺🎭

Heads up: @moudhy.bsky.social’s Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History is THE must read ancient history book at the moment. It’s *brilliant*. 🏺

🚨1 in 3 children living in deep poverty are migrant children. This is not a coincidence. Hostile immigration policies drive migrant families into poverty. Tell this Government to protect EVERY child from poverty. Take action: act.praxis.org.uk/email-minist...

📣 Repatriation news: bronze griffin head returned to Olympia from @metmuseum.org #ancientbluesky #archaeologybluesky 🏺 www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1262...

'All the better to see you with, my dear!' 🐺 Originally part of an over-lifesize statue, these eyes demonstrate the lengths ancient artists went to impart realism to sculpture. Made of marble, frit, quartz, obsidian, and bronze (lashes). 🏺 #ancientbluesky Greek, 5th c. BCE. #MetMuseum 📸 me

Love this idea! #ancientDEI!

I went to Plato’s Academy for the first time today, where Plato founded his school in the 4th century BCE. Lovely, green space with a fun little interactive museum! What would you do? ⬇️ #ancientbluesky #archaeologybluesky 🏺

really great chapter by Lylaah L. Bhalerao on the Parthenon as a UNESCO site, "Away from 'Civilisational' Heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean: Embracing Classical and Islamic Cultural Co-presences and Simultaneous Histories at the Parthenon and Ayasofya" www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

This #mosaicmonday, check out the work of Southbank Mosaics (now London School of Mosaic) a non for profit that combined working with vulnerable young people with transforming public space through art. I used to volunteer with them (10 years ago now!) and they’re amazing! www.lsomosaic.com/history

A highlight at the Benaki is the new exhibition: ‘Africa amongst us*’, which presents objects mainly from Nigeria, Cameroon and Kenya through the experiences of the Afro Greek community in Athens. Important questions about Greekness, blackness and racism #archaeologybluesky #blackhistorymonth 🏺

The Benaki Museum in Athens has some great exhibitions on currently! ‘Ghika: a journey from west to east’ follows the artist’s travels through his artwork. There are also lots of references to his muse, travel partner and future wife, Barbara Warner!

Highlighting some of our wonderful female authors for International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 👩‍🔬🏺 #archaeology #ancientsky

What’s the point in refusing citizenship to refugees who have ‘made a dangerous journey’? What’s the point in publishing footage of people being deported? I’m sorry to say that this is simply a continuation of the performative cruelty we saw from the Conservatives.

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

For #BlackHistoryMonth this year, I’m going to be posting daily about: representations of blackness in Greco-Roman antiquity, the history of scholarship by Black classicists, and the history of Africana receptions using the hashtag #AncientBlackness. Join me.

Petition: Save Cardiff University Ancient History Degree 🏺 #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics #AncientBluesky 🏛️ ✍️ www.change.org/p/save-cardi...

Teaching on the Acropolis on an early winter morning - no crowds and gorgeous skies! #archaeologybluesky 🏺 🏛️

To kick off Black History Month, a 🧵 on early African architecture: 1/The first African buildings we know about are from Egypt: small stone tombs known as mastabas, built about 3000 BC. Egypt built in stone earliest, because Egypt was the richest part of Africa, closest to West Asian traders.