“The Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Budget proposes to eliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and provides $38 million to conduct an orderly shutdown of the Agency.” — NEH.gov
The NEH has $207 million for FY2026. War in Iran? 1 billion per day. We go through 4.83 NEHs a day for what?
Dame Judi Dench! 🤣☠️
I'll be presenting virtually on AI & the Study of Antiquity, hosted by Rutgers, sometime around 4:30pm. I'll be presenting on natural language processing for improved searchability and some other projects on using computer vision for die studies. classics.rutgers.edu/ai-the-study...
Exquisite work in this thread
The Call for Papers for the 13th annual Nomisma/ECFN meeting in Bari is now open. 15-18 Sept 2026. Come and join us! www.13ecfn-nomisma.org/call-for-pap...
The amphitheater at Cyzicus
Tenedos, from Alexandria Troas
Samothrace, seen from Aenus
Selymbria for New Year’s Eve.
The CHANGE project is in Istanbul next month, courtesy of the wonderful Pera Museum. Do join us: www.peramuseum.org/event/moneta...
More Egyptian goodness in the OSAD series. Just in time for Christmas….
The search results for the keyword 'architecture' in Coinage of the Roman Republic Online (http://numismatics.org/crro). The page depicts numerous example types that depict architecture, including temples, columns, towns, etc.
Interested in architecture on Roman Republican coins? All you have to do is keyword search. Using python natural language processing to reconcile descriptive concepts to Wikidata. These are results of temples, columns, altars, gates, etc. Expect more NLP results throughout our projects soon.
I’m old enough to remember when radio dials looked like this in the UK…
Hot off the press: CPI volume2
Some 50,000 Roman Republican coins have been migrated into CollectiveAccess for Roman Republican Die Project, with some updates to bibliographic references, provenance, and integrating coin hoard URIs to improve various functionality: numishare.blogspot.com/2025/11/upda...
Minority representation on TV causes outrage
Brilliant from @privateeyenews.bsky.social
I have a very bad feeling about this...
Scandanavian/Icelandic GAERHF thread.
My photo shows a pile of shiny Roman gold coins below five fragments from a grey pot
Pot of gold!
Rare Roman gold coin hoard uncovered near Didcot, Oxfordshire, by a metal detectorist in 1995. The pot contained 126 gold aurei, struck between AD 54-160. It would have taken a legionary soldier over ten years to earn this large sum!
Ashmolean Museum 📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
A week today! - Our first research seminar of the year with Dr Simon Glenn on ‘The Bactrian Mirage: coins and history in Hellenistic Central Asia’ on 16 October, 17:15-18:30 UK time. More details in the thread below. Please note the change of on campus venue to Michael Sadler 1.01. All welcome!
Thanks to the fantastic work of the Warsaw team, Proceedings of Int Numismatic Congress are free to download here: Vol. I www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB...
Vol. II www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB...
vol. III www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB...
vol. IV www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB...
Demetrias (small promontory in the centre) at sunset
Evening in the Agora at Thasos
Thasos
Kavalla
