Great discussion with @gevemac.bsky.social about Shapur I and the Sasanians on The Ancients Podcast. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Shapur I: Rome's Greatest Enemy?
Podcast Episode · The Ancients · August 9 · 58m · Video
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Eve MacDonald
@gevemac.bsky.social
Archaeology, history, Sasanians, Carthaginians and some of the bits in between https://www.evemacdonald.net
Just finished Carthage ⬇️ by @gevemac.bsky.social. This is everything I love in a history book. Non-stuffy language & packed with little stories. 5 stars. No notes. #teamCarthage (fucking dickhead Romans) 🙃
Well, that was a masterclass in "How Not To Defend A 1-0 Lead With 20 Minutes Left" by Mr Tuchel there #ENGARG
roundtable.org/live-courses... Excited to be teaching a new course in the autumn at Roundtable 92stY — all about resistance and the way the Roman Empire created and crafted those who fought against them.. join me for a look at the stories and art and legacy of these rebellions against Rome
Resistance in Ancient Rome: From Spartacus to Masada
All great powers face rebellion, and we often learn more from resistance than from conquest. This course tells the story of the Roman Empire through the eyes of those who defied it—Spartacus, Boudicca...
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‘I ask no more than my democratically elected representative upholds the law in my name.’... www.amnesty.org.uk/get-involved...
Ask your MP to attend the upcoming debate on ending trade with Israeli settlements
Take action with Amnesty International and email your MP to ask them to speak in support of ending trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
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Gut wrenching to see four young people jailed for direct action against an arms supplier to Israel. Years in prison for protesting to save lives in Gaza, with 'terrorism' used despite no jury convicting them of it. A truly dangerous attack on the right to protest.
Just finished reading Carthage: A New History of an Ancient Empire by @gevemac.bsky.social. Was lovely spending some time in the Punic Wars again. Great read, anyone who follows me here will enjoy it!
Who said Benjamin Franklin invented the lighting rod? “… there is this mount so high that no one can climb it. On top of it they built a high tower, 30 feet high, & on it is a lance, & at the end of the lance hung two large beads, one to deflect lightning & cold, & the other to deflect winds.”!!
Yes indeed — what if?
All About History@allabouthistory.bsky.social · 4mo agoWhat if Rome had lost the Punic Wars against Carthage? How would a power shift in the ancient Mediterranean have changed history? Find out with @gevemac.bsky.social in Ep.3 of Almost History, available from your preferred podcast platform now! bit.ly/AlmostHistor...
Proto-Elamite - linear Elamite steps backwards into writing advance each day www.newscientist.com/article/2524...
A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began
A long-overlooked writing system from 5000 years ago is still largely undeciphered, but could mark the moment humans first represented their speech with written words
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Wondering if anyone in the current American administration has any clue? Some suggested reading struck me as I was looking through this excellent volume edited by @sasanianshah.bsky.social and John Hyland
We shouldn't dismiss flowers as merely ornamental – these blooms are world-changers, argues a vivid new book by David George Haskell. Michael Marshall is mostly convinced
What to read this week: the persuasive How Flowers Made Our World
We shouldn't dismiss flowers as merely ornamental – these blooms are world-changers, argues a vivid new book by David George Haskell. Michael Marshall is mostly convinced
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What if, instead, foreign tourists from the countries whose heritage the British Museum stole were paid upon entry?
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 5mo agoEngland set to charge foreign tourists for entry to major museums ft.trib.al/S6xEBl2
Ruins of a Roman outpost seemed constructed through ‘the works of giants’ — great listen here on the making of medieval #London
London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 5mo ago‘For quite a lot of this period, of course, London is quite vulnerable because there are Viking raids going on all up and down the coast.’ Rosemary Hill on medieval London, on our Close Readings subscription podcast. Listen to an extract: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...
‘Hours before the bombing started, Oman’s foreign minister, who had hosted a round of negotiations on 26 February, said Iran had agreed to essentially all the US terms. It didn’t matter.’ @tomstevenson.bsky.social on the US attacks on Iran. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tom Stevenson · Iran, Week One
It may well be true that Israeli officials told the White House they planned to attack Iran with or without American...
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The USraeli terrorists (I am increasingly convinced this is what they are) have started bombing the beautiful Caspian province of Gilan, both Rasht & Anzali, one of the prettiest cities in the country and its only large port on the Caspian coast. This is criminal & has no purpose but destruction.
“The sky over Tehran is black. Like the night sky…” a friend “i cannot breath, I am breathing through a wet towel”. My mum 10.000.000 people are being choked to death. Tehran is surrounded by mountains. There is very little wind.
Since many seem keen to explain to me the finer points of a moral war & bring historical examples of just wars, let me pitch the book I edited on history of war in ancient Iran.
First physical evidence of Hannibal’s ‘war machine’ elephants? buff.ly/0avdhq6 #archaeology #ancientRome #ancienthistory #carthage
Ancient bone may be first physical evidence of Hannibal’s ‘war machine’ elephants in Western Europe | CNN
Archaeologists in Spain have uncovered an elephant bone from 2,200 years ago, and they believe it belonged to an animal that served as a “war machine” in an army sent to invade the Roman Republic.
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Elephant Bone in Spain May Be Proof of Hannibal’s Tanks With Trunks www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/s...
Elephant Bone in Spain May Be Proof of Hannibal’s Tanks With Trunks
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Want to know more about the real story of ancient Carthage — doing a 4 session deep dive into Carthaginian history starting Feb 27th - come and explore
Myth vs. Reality: Carthage, A New History
Carthage, Rome's most famous rival, was home to legendary figures like Queen Dido and Hannibal. These dramatic tales capture our imagination, but the true story of Carthaginian civilization runs far d...
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Why did the Sasanian empire fall? The brilliant @sasanianshah.bsky.social answers all m.youtube.com/watch?v=xTuk...
How the Sasanian Empire REALLY Fell | A Conversation with Dr. Khodadad Rezakhani
YouTube video by Sképsislamica
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Want to know more about the real story of ancient Carthage — doing a 4 session deep dive into Carthaginian history starting Feb 27th - come and explore
Myth vs. Reality: Carthage, A New History
Carthage, Rome's most famous rival, was home to legendary figures like Queen Dido and Hannibal. These dramatic tales capture our imagination, but the true story of Carthaginian civilization runs far d...
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And this - a rare elephant carpal bone from Punic period contexts - elephant in the oppidum (great title too 🐘) but what kind of elephant…. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The elephant in the oppidum. Preliminary analysis of a carpal bone from a Punic context at the archaeological site of Colina de los Quemados (Córdoba, Spain)
Prior to the construction and enlargement of the medical consulting room of the Cordoba Provincial Hospital (Spain) an archaeological excavation was r…
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Buckland wrote this despite understanding that women of his time, whether his wife Mary, or #MaryAnning whose work he benefitted from, were serious, skilled palaeontological fieldworkers & thinkers... Here's the @trowelblazers.bsky.social article on Mary Buckland trowelblazers.com/2014/05/09/m...
Natalia (娜塔莉)@wrycritic.bsky.social · 7mo agoWilliam Buckland, responsible for naming Megalosaurus. Below communicating the need for women to not attend academic lectures in Oxford, where he was a lecturer (and relied on his wife to transcribe, illustrate his own papers, and curate geological collections)
