Currently reading _War Essays_ by Iraqi archaeologist, Dr. Zainab Bahrani, which I cannot recommend enough, especially given current events.

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Join the snarkiest party on Blue Sky this Sunday during the annual Historians At The Movies Oscars Watch Party. The show starts at 7pm eastern on ABC and right here on BlueSky.

Tell your best supporting actor about #HATM and we’ll see you soon!

How Much Did It Cost to Paint a Pompeii Room Egyptian Blue? The price of covering a room in the prized pigment was equal to between 50% and 90% of a Roman legionary's annual salary, a new study estimates.

My latest for @hyperallergic.com is on Egyptian Blue—& a new study by Mishael Quraishi which prices out the Roman cost & manual labor needed to paint the “Blue Room” at Pompeii. Shout outs & thx: @hilarybeckertxny.bsky.social , @diffendale.bsky.social , @chapps.bsky.social, @valentinadl.bsky.social!

Dude wrote a 173 page footnote on a marginally related topic, prefacing it with “I have omitted much that I would like to have said... [and] I have written much that few will read."

I HAVE FOUND MY PATRON SAINT

Just a reminder that Romans that owls
Ulula ulula instead of hoo hoo. @sentantiq.bsky.social has the best ancient animals sound list: sententiaeantiquae.com/2017/09/24/z...

“Fullones uḷulamque cano non arma virumq(ue)” 🦉

“I sing about fullers and an owl, not about arms and a man"

CIL IV, 9131, Pompeii (IX.13.5), 79 CE, a graffito near a door entrance parodying the fist line of Virgil. ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/gra...

Greatest honour of my career so far. As founding editor I'm proud to announce @edinburghup.bsky.social Studies in Late Roman History. The world's first book series exclusively dedicated to the core domain of Late Antiquity. Like to discuss proposals or manuscripts? Reach out!

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Uncovering the Mysteries of the Roman Provincial Mint (sort of) — Butser Ancient Farm This week’s guest post is by PhD student Francesca Lam-March from King’s College London, who was awarded the Friends of Butser Ancient Farm bursary in 2025. When you look at the humble ...

This week’s guest post is by PhD student Francesca Lam-March from King's College London, who was awarded the Friends of Butser Ancient Farm bursary in 2025.

Francesca has been using her bursary fund to experiment with Roman coin striking!

Read more: www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/blog/2026/3/...

I use Gemini when I'm bored — and it's better than doomscrolling It became my ultimate distraction

WHAT IF YOU JUST READ A FUCKING BOOK

Shocked that @neorsd.org hasn’t dropped by to admire this yet 😁

An archaeological trench showing various gullys and ditches. Some of these contain runs of short orange ceramic water pipes that fit together not unlike lego to create continuous lengths of pipe.

We're sure all you can think about today is that it's World Plumbing Day. 👨‍🔧💦

So here's the Palace plumbing - ceramic pipes that carried water around the formal gardens and fed fountains and ornamental basins and the like.

(1960s excavation photo)

🧵👇

Ashley Lance (@aerl.bsky.social), "Indigenous Thoughts and Ancient Philosophy"

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Jennifer Komorowski, "‘Does Indians Have Feelings?’ A Reverse Chronology of Indigenous Stereotypes"

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Cassandra M. M. Casias, "Punic Silence: Recovering Mestizo Voices in Augustine’s Africa"

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Ashton Rodgers, "Lower Case 'indigenous': Indexing an Archive and Archaeology of Whiteness in Studies of Ancient Greek Colonization"

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Kendall Lovely, "(Re)visiting (New) Mexico’s Ancient Origins: Ancestral Native Kinship Beyond Classical Civitas"

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Evan Shannon, "Of the Earth and Sea: A Study in Minoan and Tlingit Art and an Indigenous Response to Autochthony"

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Ashley Lance (@aerl.bsky.social) and Tara Wells, "Introducing 'Rez Diff': Indigenous Perspectives"

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Res Diff 2.2 (2025) Special Issue: “Rez Diff: Indigenous Perspectives”Guest-edited by Ashley Lance and Tara Wells. Cover Image: Evan Shannon, Αυτοχθων Ashley Lance and Tara Wells, Introducing Rez Diff: Indigenous Pers…

It is my enormous pleasure to share the most recent issue of #ResDiffJournal, Res Diff 2.2 (2025).

"Rez Diff: Indigenous Perspectives," guest-edited by Ashley Lance (@aerl.bsky.social) and Tara Wells.

#OpenAccess

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Ok, Mr. E has seen it first, so here you all go: www.mdhistory.org/wp-content/u...

Humble Book Bundle: Dread & Darkness: A Horror Megabundle by Open Road Media A library of classic and modern horror fiction from some of the best writers of the genre! Grab this collection of over 50 books and support Save the Children!

Humble Bundle has been killing it lately (no pun intended). Their most recent offering is a 52 book horror collection which includes a dozen works by @sgj.bsky.social. Highly recommend. Also, maybe check out the Discworld bundle while you’re there.
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Ancient Egyptians used ‘Tipp-Ex’ to mask papyrus errors Curators at Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum made the discovery when preparing a scroll for an exhibition

“White-out” has been necessary for scribes for a long time, it seems. A page from the Book of the Dead penned by royal scribe, Ramose (1290-1278BCE) had a huntite and calcite mix to correct illustrations, say Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum.

*their

Michael Landon probably deserves a good bit of that credit/blame too. I’d wager more people get there romanticized ideas from half-remembering the show rather than having read the books.

“Trans children are perfect.”

Submission deadline is tonight -- don't forget to get your applications in!

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Cross Circuits with Waubgeshig Rice Join us for a Cross Circuits talk with celebrated Anishinaabe writer and journalist Waubgeshig Rice!

Toronto! I'm coming to visit The Power Plant Gallery this Saturday afternoon to talk about how my recent books and life experiences connect with two current exhibits by artists Jeneen Frei Njootli and Lucy Raven. It's free and open to everyone! www.thepowerplant.org/whats-on/cal...

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Girl, same