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Wer will schon draußen schwitzen 🥵? Ab ins ALM zu "ROM LEBT - ein Mitmachabenteuer". Archäologie zum Anfassen und das bei angenehmen 20 Grad - da macht sogar das Verkleiden Spaß! 🧊🌡️ 😎 👉 www.alm-konstanz.de/sonderausste...

EpiDoc Office Hour, if you'd like to know more about TEI XML encoding for inscriptions, papyri and seals, if you have concrete questions or just what to see what others are up to. All welcome. Wednesday 17th June, 17:00 BST (online). Register at ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Back after tea with Holly Winch who explores children's social worlds in early Greece @sscipchildhood.bsky.social #SSCIP2026

Here's a sneak peek at our interactive exhibition "Rome Lives! An Interactive Adventure," which starts on June 7th. 😁 My team is seriously the best!

For #FridayFinds a #Roman scalpel handle/blunt dissector with Hercules club decoration. Perhaps designed to imbue strength to the patient (or animal)? Or the surgeon? One of over 50 medical instruments from #Colchester reassessed in our new publication on Roman healthcare in the town t.ly/pg_eD

A Slice of Luck! Carbonised Roman Bread Found in Switzerland 🍞 🏛 Archaeologists working in Windisch, Switzerland, have uncovered the earliest phase of the Roman legionary camp at Vindonissa, finding a 2,000-year-old charred loaf of bread. 📰 Read about it in AWLOH: open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

📣 #JobAlert Research Associate/Fellow in Digital Curation and Analysis (Part-time, Fixed term) @uniofnottingham.bsky.social Join Prof Alex Mullen’s AHRC-funded project on Voices of Britain under and after Rome. 🏺#digitalhumanities 1/2 Deadline 14 April 2026 jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Digital Classicist London 2026 call for papers. Papers on any aspect of the ancient or pre-colonial worlds *and* that address innovative digital approaches. Deadline Monday 16th March 2026. blog.stoa.org/archives/4370

Please support the petition against the planned #closure of #Archaeology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Archaeology has been a part of Humboldt-Universität academic tradition for almost 200 years, so closing it would break a long-standing research tradition weact.campact.de/petitions/sc...

Schließung des Instituts für Archäologie an der HU-Berlin

Die Archäologie gehört seit fast 200 Jahren zur wissenschaftlichen Tradition der Humboldt-Universität. Ihre Schließung bedeutet den Abbruch einer gewachsenen Forschungstradition und eine dauerhafte Sc...

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Have you ever seen a Roman plumbing device that is both genius and gorgeous? Just look at this bronze drain strainer, found in the Roman baths at Weißenburg, Germany, dating2nd/3rd century AD! 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology #findsfriday

Had a wonderful evening at @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social yesterday for the Private View of the final leg of the touring Gladiators exhibition! Not only that, but you can enjoy two Roman exhibitions in one with the fantastic “Uncovering Roman Carlisle” alongside. Highly recommend!

Another entry in my occasional series ‘What does the artefact see?’ Today I’m visiting Vienna’s Natural History Museum, home of the ca. 30,000 year old Willendorf figurine. This is what the Palaeolithic Venus sees day in, day out, in her own special display room. (plus tourists like me) 🏺🧪🎨

Delighted that from January 2026 all research articles published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org will be Open Access view.updates.cambridge.org?qs=85c24bbd7...

Some 1,500 years ago, a child was buried with a set of game pieces made of animal bones. Single game pieces are frequently found in early medieval graves in south-west Germany, but complete sets are rare. Found in Herbolzheim, 500-550 AD. 📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg 🏺 #archaeology

Like a time capsule: a #Roman tile marked with #finger lines, hobnail #shoe prints, #dog's paw prints, and a #stamp of the LEG(io) XIIII G(emina). Tiles with imprints are very common, since tiles were laid out to dry in the open air ahead of firing, where...🧵1/2 #TilesOnTuesday 🏺

This is coming up soon! Free lecture and reception, on Friday 10th October. There are still places left - please come along and/or pass onto your networks

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Free lecture by Prof Jaś Elsner at Senate House on 10th October. Book on the link below. The 28th Denys Haynes Memorial Lecture Monument, movement and the ritual body: ancient Indian, Roman and Greek art | British Museum share.google/glf556KROUQV...

Come work with us!🏺 Together with my brilliant colleague Georgia Barker we are looking for a project curator to research how childhood is represented in the collections of our two departments at the British Museum, Egypt & Sudan and Greece & Rome. 👇👇👇 bmrecruit.ciphr-irecruit.com//templates/C...

Project Curator: Hidden Stories of Childhood Greece and Rome; Egypt and Sudan Full-time: 41 hours per week (including one hour paid lunch break) Fixed term for 12 months £36,396 per annum Application deadline: 12pm (midday) on 17 October 2025

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If you'd like to find out about the Classical Collections Network here is our website. It's free to join and open to anyone who cares for/about classical collections in UK museums classicalcollectionsnetwork.co.uk

Classical Collections Network

A Subject Specialist Network

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Excited to announce that after a lot of editorial work our volume "Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 BCE - 300 CE" is out now. @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social @illdottore.bsky.social academic.oup.com/book/60683

Are you interested in writing and its visual appearance and/or visibility? If so, please consider sending an abstract for our conference! CFP deadline 5th September 2025, dates of conference 26th-29th March 2026. viewsproject.wordpress.com/writing-as-v...

Writing As Visual Engagement

WAVE 2 26th-29th March 2026, Cambridge Following last year’s successful first conference, Writing As Visual Experience (WAVE), we are excited to announce the Call For Papers for our second conferen…

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Last year I ended my project about Roman stylus tablets, which was funded by the @gerda-henkel-stiftung.de, early – for my dream job. But before I did, we filmed a series of short videos about the project, and the first episode is now live. (English Version available) ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #ancientbluesky🏺 1/3

L.I.S.A.@lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de · last yr.

Schreiben wie die alten Römer: Mit Unterstützung der @gerda-henkel-stiftung.de erforscht Dr. Anna Willi die Materialität römischer Wachstäfelchen. Was uns die unscheinbaren Tafeln verraten, erzählt sie in der ersten Episode unserer Videoreihe. lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/tabulae_cera...

Dorset Museum @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social is fundraising to acquire, conserve and display the Bronze Age *Crichel Hoard* www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... which includes a twisted gold ribbon torc Fundraising details here: www.dorsetmuseum.org/the-crichel-...

Crichel Hoard: Dorset Museum to acquire Bronze Age gold

Dorset Museum is raising £9,000 to acquire the 3,000-year-old Crichel Hoard of gold ornaments.

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CfP: The Ancient Mediterranean and the British Museum: Pasts and Futures A conference exploring the past impact and future potential of the Museum’s ancient Mediterranean collections, in-person in Senate House 25 - 27 Feb 2026. Abstracts (300 words max) due Mon 16 Jun 2025. https://bit.ly/4lCkltp

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Ancient Mediterranean and the British Museum: Pasts and Futures

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Apply for our Alexander the Great AHRC PhD opportunity with The British Museum: "Disruption and Diversity: Understanding the Impact of Alexander the Great Through the Material Culture of the Hellenistic World." Application Deadline: 17:00 (UK time) 15 May 2025 phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2239...

Delighted that the volume ‘Empire and Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878–1960’, edited by Thomas Kiely, Lindy Crewe, and me, is now available open access. Huge thanks to all our contributors: www.sidestone.com/books/empire...

Empire and excavation @ Sidestone Press

The modern discipline of archaeology developed in tandem with the expansion of European imperialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. Cyprus, ruled by Britain between 1878 and 1960, is a fascinating exa...

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Monumental three-volume Handbook of Epigraphic Cultures to be published by De Gruyter, early next year hopefully. Open Access eBook! Includes chapters on Khitan and Tangut epigraphy.

Final hours of install before press descend on #GladiatorsOfBritain @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social One of the amazing BM objects is this #Roman lamp with a personalised name written into the wet clay - Gaius Maximus. A rare instance of a named #gladiator, or perhaps a fan of this retiarius? #FindsFriday

Children loved to play with toys in #Roman times too: some 1,800 years ago, a child in Cologne was buried with a terracotta with a rider on wheels. It was certainly a much-loved which the child was also supposed to play with in the afterlife. 📷 Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln 🏺 AncientBluesky