Divine Currency!? Italic and Roman monetary cultures on the Eve of the First Punic War Liv Yarrow, City University of New York

Divine Currency!? Italic and Roman monetary cultures on the Eve of the First Punic War | Department of Classics
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Historians are everywhere, working on more than most people realize.

Historians, what are you researching, teaching, or exploring right now?

Share a sentence and help illustrate the range of the discipline.

#TalkAboutHumanities 🗃️

Women's healthcare in ancient Mesopotamia in the first millennium BCE : an edition of the textual sources | WorldCat.org "Treatments for women from ancient Mesopotamia form the most extensive medical corpus on female health from antiquity beside the Hippocratic gynaecological works. This volume presents a comprehensive

There is a new, open access anthology (=great teaching resource) about _Women's healthcare in ancient Mesopotamia in the first millennium BCE_ edited by Ulrike Steinert. search.worldcat.org/title/Women'... I would then combine this with the ancient medicine sourcebook www.ucpress.edu/books/medici...

Today is National School Librarian Day. THANK YOU, school librarians & school library workers. We celebrate you. For so many library kids, the school library is the only place they have access to books. It is where they learn to believe that stories are for them. Thank you for your library joy 💛📚🥹🤟🏽

You can track Artemis II via this link at NASA.
Earlier today, humans left Earth's orbit for the first time in over 50 years.
We are going to see things that haven't been viewed in half a century with a clarity that was unthinkable before.

Ryan Coogler's 'X-Files' Reboot Has Found Its Star Danielle Deadwyler will star in the Hulu pilot, which will be written and directed by Coogler and showrun by Jennifer Yale.

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A sewn sandal made from grass, palm leaf, and papyrus from King Tut’s tomb. Credit: André J. Veldmeijer

Gold sandals and toe covers discovered in King Tut’s tomb, part of “The Discovery of King Tut” exhibition in New York City. Credit: Mary Harrsch / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

A pair of open shoes made from gold, leather, wood, and linen. Credit: André J. Veldmeijer.

This is a great article about the 80 pairs of sandals 🩴 buried with King Tut (afterlife shoes!), but it’s disappointing that they don’t mention the 4 pairs of socks (from the Greek σύκχος) 🧦 discovered. Note: the socks worn with the sandals are just as interesting!
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SUV marked for Canton (MA) Animal Control parked in a driveway. A large tabby housecat with a collar is hanging on the rear passenger door and peering in suspiciously at the inside of the cabin.

Become ungovernable

Fulbright board resigns citing interference by Trump administration All members of the board that oversees the U.S. State Department's Fulbright Program, which facilitates international educational exchanges, have voted to resign over alleged political interference from President Donald Trump's administration, the board said on Wednesday.

I may currently be on the last of the Fulbright grants as we’ve known them:

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Anti-Trump protests planned in D.C.-area on day of military parade Organizers nationwide and in D.C. are organizing demonstrations.

"No Kings" protest organizers are encouraging everyone to get out of DC for day on June 14. Where are you going? #nokings

Met an active duty member of the military yesterday who filed conscientious objector paperwork in response to deployment of military on U.S. soil.

Was told multiple Army have filed, unknown quantities in other branches.

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New Eos" Africana Receptions of Ancient Greece and Rome Newsletter 06/07/2025 @eosafricana.bsky.social @scsclassics.bsky.social mailchi.mp/dbf8de784262...

Total Persons Disappeared by ICE: 4,535

United States Disappeared Tracker: public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

These are our colleagues, humanities friends. The needless cruelty of it all.

2,800-year-old royal tomb discovered near King Midas' home in Turkey Turkey's minister of culture and tourism announced the discovery of a new tomb in an eighth-century-B.C. city that was the homeland of King Midas.

New tomb excavated at Gordion! 🏺🧪

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

Judge says administration can dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services A federal judge in Washington, D.C. has denied a request to halt the Trump administration’s further dismantling of an agency that funds and promotes libraries across the country.

"Judge says administration can dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services" The destruction of IMLS will have a devastating impact on small regional museums & libraries across America, many of which depend on these grants to operate. Some may not survive. apnews.com/article/inst...

Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts on Steam Run your manuscript workshop, receive orders to illustrate medieval books, decorate them any way you like, send them back to clients to get paid, and unlock new jobs, decorations, and items. Welcome t...

And for my Medieval archaeogaming friends: this is Scriptorium, a game in which you get to illustrate your own manuscripts, with each decorative element based on real medieval manuscript art!
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is it time to bust out my "bigfoot is bears" photo collection again? if your mental image of a bear is a thick-furred, fat glossy male bear in autumn, you're probably not prepared for how weird their proportions can look in spring, or when walking upright, like they frequently do.

So, as you might know, I have been in the process of tracking the activities of DOGE staff across the federal government. And now I've built an auto-updating website to browse the data

It's not done (lots more content to write), but news is moving fast, so here it is dogetrack.info

Enjoy!

My home of Missoula just voted to establish the pride flag as an official government flag of the city, thereby circumventing the state's asinine pride flag ban. 🏳️‍🌈

Missoula is once again showing how to fight back against policies that seek to erase the LGBTQ community.

Know someone who wants to teach Latin in Chapel Hill? The school district has 2 positions open, one at the middle school and one at the high school level.

(Just posting as a parent whose kids really want to keep taking Latin!)

www.applitrack.com/chccs/online...

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$105 Million Reparations Package for Tulsa Race Massacre Unveiled by Mayor

More than a century after the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, one of the most horrific episodes of racial violence in U.S. history, the city’s mayor announced a $105 million reparations package on Sunday. It is the first large-scale plan committing funds to address the impact of the atrocity.

Deep cuts erode the foundations of US public health system, end progress, threaten worse to come Americans are losing an array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy.

This is the kind of sweeping, truth-telling journalism we need more of. Good job, AP.

Led by Senator Warren, Mass. lawmakers demand answers about Trump’s ongoing attack on international students - The Boston Globe Since early March, more than 4,700 international students at 160 colleges across 48 states have had their legal status in the United States terminated, often without notice or obvious cause.

MAJOR UPDATE: The Trump administration has been BLOCKED in court from kicking out Harvard’s international students.

This fight is about defending students and protecting America's economic advantage to attract the best and brightest from around the world.