In February 2025, #WCCWiki created or edited 19 #Wikipedia pages for classicists who self-identify as women or non-binary! That's a significant leap forward in the gendered representation of classicists and open-access knowledge. Thread ...

Love all of this. “We are engaging in the most humanistic act we can imagine- refusing the prompt.”

considering using this account to showcase my dogs since I’ve had zero inspiration or motivation to post about anything more cerebral this year. Here’s Layla

Towards a New Museology Gala Porras-Kim works to heal institutional spaces shaped by the lasting impacts of colonial extractivism

"Perhaps the most trenchant critique of the imbrication of art, property and racialization today can be found in scholar Eunsong Kim’s 2024 book The Politics of Collecting...in which she traces how the mid-19th-century consolidation of wealth+

www.frieze.com/article/gala...

Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.”

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a drawing of a cat and a blue butterfly by debbie olicone Alt: a drawing of a cat and a blue butterfly by debbie olicone

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

Mothering and Archaeology: Past and Present Perspectives Mothering and Archaeology brings to light new insights connecting mothering in the past and present by exploring all aspects of this important but frequently under-valued and thus neglected subject an...

Check it out! New volume alert! 🚨📖 “Mothering and Archaeology: Past and Present Perspectives” brings together research on #motherhood and mothering in the past with women’s contemporary experiences of the relationships of mothering to #archaeology…

www.routledge.com/Mothering-an...

Close-up of a dark stone monument showing a detailed engraving of a scorpion from above. The scorpion faces to the right. The main body has lines on it to show sections of the carapace, and 5 legs coming out of each side. The tail is thick. Two pincers protrude from its head.

When my dad was little in Saudi, his mother noticed a scorpion crawl up his coat sleeve.

She got him to shuffle the coat off the way toddlers do, and in one swift movement, swept it into the air in a wide arc and smashed it to the ground.

Thread on scorpions and motherhood in ancient Mesopotamia.

🏺 Archaeological #ASMR

A divided city revisited Nicosia, Europe’s last divided capital, has long been a city of contrasts, its bustling streets juxtaposed with the silent, guarded buffer zone. Now, the Leventis Municipal Museum of Nicosia invites v...

A divided city revisited

The Peopling the Past podcast logo with the additional title "Season 4: Cultural heritage and legacies of colonialism"

This season, we will be turning our focus to cultural heritage and the dangers threatening it today, the ethics of museums and collecting practices, and the legacies of colonialism in the study of antiquity. We are so excited to share this with you all! peoplingthepast.com/2025/01/14/p... /end

Enjoying this whole museum-off: nerdy, affectionate yet brutal heritage slam.
If only the Ulu Burun & Akrotiri were on bluesky to join the fray...