NEW #isawnyulib BLOG POSTS! Read all about our interns’ work expanding the digital Latin corpus of women authors. #digitalhumanities #latinliterature #classics @isawnyu.bsky.social @nyulibraries.bsky.social
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**Lecture** If you are in Portland, OR on **Mon, Mar 16, 7:15pm** come to @reed.edu and
hear about the 2026 field season at Amheida. “Making the Desert a City: Recent Discoveries from Ancient Trimithis in the Dakhla Oasis of Egypt.” #amheida2026 @archaeological.org events.reed.edu/event/making...
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Zoom Lecture: Fri. Feb. 13, 12:00pm Ivan Drpić "Authorship and Viewership at the Church of the Virgin Peribleptos in Ohrid" @yale.edu Institute of Sacred Music ism.yale.edu/events/2026-...
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Journal of Ancient Philosophy Vol. 19 No. 2 (2025) revistas.usp.br/filosofiaant... #openaccess
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Mouseion: Journal of the @cacscec.bsky.social Vol. 21, No. 1 (2024) muse.jhu.edu/issue/56328 @projectmuse.bsky.social @utpressjournals.bsky.social @apistone.bsky.social @brekekekexkovax.bsky.social Breaking New Ground with Comics and the Ancient Mediterranean World
Quick example of local processing of 2 million + triples related to Pompeii. As noted, needs more documentation!! But @epoehler.bsky.social and I intend this as sustainable infrastructure encouraging re-use of our data. #Pompeii #ReproducibleReserch #OA #AncientSky
Photo stand on a wooden desk with mounted camera and lights over a sole ostracon, with more ostraca to the left waiting for photography. Banners in purple overlaid say “Ostraca getting ready to meet the paparazzi #amheida2026”
Ostraca in plastic bags on a wooden desk, with a papers and books to the left. Banners overlayed say “It’s like being a kid on Halloween … But they are handing out ostraca!”
Large ostraca in plastic bags in a wooden desk. Banners in orange overlaid say “ May I take two BIG ones, please? #amheida2026”
Ostraca in situ on the floor of an ancient room being excavated next to a wall on the right. A person in a straw hat, red scarf and galabeya works at the top of the photo.
This year in B10 has been v. productive, esp. for ostraca! We have recovered > 120 in 3 weeks, incl. some large and interesting accounts, which may constitute a dossier if not ancient archive in Rm 9. Only study will tell us. In the meantime, they must smile for the camera! #amheida2026 #papyrology
**NEW BLOG POST** Patrick Liu and Patrick Burns on INTERNING IN THE ISAW LIBRARY: DEVELOPING AN ERROR CORRECTION DATASET FOR LATIN TEXTS #isawnyulib #ancientlatin #digitalclassics #libraries @isawnyu.bsky.social @nyulibraries.bsky.social isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog...
Cuneiform clay tablet against a black background with a banner saying “How did librarians in the past make sure that you returned your books? We can tell you …
New Blog Post from Gabriel McKee and the ISAW library: FROM PROTECTIVE COLOPHONS TO RFID TAGS: A BRIEF HISTORY OF LIBRARY SECURITY. isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog... #isawnyulib #isawnyu #nyu #libraries #ancientbooks @isawnyu.bsky.social @nyulibraries.bsky.social
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Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions Vol. 25, No. 2 (2025) brill.com/view/journal... @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social
Check out our FREE Archaeogaming Education Module. Urbanism in Egypt and Mesopotamia
This AEM examines the rise of the world’s first cities in the River Valley Civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt.
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Frontières Vol. 11 (2025) journals.openedition.org/frontieres/4... @openedition.bsky.social @frontiere-s.bsky.social #openaccess Les frontières du sacré
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A room of a mud brick house full of sand with a painted wall peeking through
Mudbrick vault block on the sand showing white plaster ceiling on one side
One mudbrick vault block with white plaster ceiling showing finger grooves on the side to improve adherence
And architectural plan of a building
The end of 2nd week of excavation; making good progress at B10 removing the collapsed vaults in Rms 5-6 and getting to the occupational levels in Rms 2, 7, 8, 9. We have our work cut out for us consolidating and conserving the painted plaster walls. #amheida2026 #dakhkaoasis #romanegypt
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Journal of Music Archaeology Vol. 3 (2025) jma.vlg.oeaw.ac.at/index.php/jm... #openaccess @oeaw.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social
Archaeologia Austriaca Vol. 109 (2025) #openaccess verlag.oeaw.ac.at/en/product/a... @oeai.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @drmibin.bsky.social @mfauvelle.bsky.social @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social
Great press release about #WashU Classics! Read more here: classics.wustl.edu/news/washu-g... #amheida2026 #archaeology #romanegypt #egypt @isawnyu.bsky.social
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Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft Vol. 28 No. 1 (2025): journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/gf... #openaccess
The arch in snow
The Arch of Hadrian, most commonly known as Hadrian's Gate, is a monumental gateway in Athens, here after the heavy snowfall in 2021. It has been proposed that the arch was built to celebrate the arrival of the Roman emperor Hadrian and to honor him in 131 or 132 AD. #RomanSiteSaturday
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Nova Tellus Vol. 44 No.. 1 (2026) revistas-filologicas.unam.mx/nouatellus/i... #openaccess
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Madrider Mitteilungen Vol. 66 (2025) publications.dainst.org/journals/mm/... @dai-weltweit.bsky.social #openaccess
Black, white, and gray bird in a green field
Dakhla Bird Quiz #2. What am I? Answer tomorrow. #amheida2026 #dakhlaoasis #ancientbirds #birding #egypt
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Illinois Classical Studies Vol. 50, No. 2 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/56235 @illinoispress.bsky.social @projectmuse.bsky.social
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Page from a book with a chapter about measuring dialogism in Latin Epic
Like Latin Epic? Interested in Bakhtin and dialogism? Always wondered if a computer could help you measure it but never knew how? @diyclassics.bsky.social is your guide to computational literary criticism in Latin. Come talk to us at @isawnyu.bsky.social #digitalhumanities #classicalstudies
Group photo of students standing in a hotel exhibition hall, one has a dog at their feet.
A multicolored book display with a tablet at far left on a table with a black cloth and a sign advertising the institute for the study of the ancient world and nyu press
A close up of a tablet displaying a digital book with a blue cover next to a book with an orange cover showing an ancient pot.
A book display focus on a blue book with English and Arabic writing on it.
We had a great #aiascs2026 in SF! Congrats to all the presenters and winners. If you have any questions about any form of publication or scholarly comms, print or digital, @isawnyu.bsky.social or @isawlibrary.bsky.social just drop us a line! Travel safe and have a great 2026!
Hosting the first LatinCy Developers/Users Meeting, a hybrid event at @isawlibrary.bsky.social on Feb. 27, 2026.
CFP for presentations on LatinCy applications/projects available here: diyclassics.github.io/latincy2026/ #digiclass #nlproc
Title slide from SCS 2026 talk called “Recovering 34 Billion Latin Words from AI Training Data”
Headed to SF for #AIASCS — presenting Saturday morning (10 Jan. @ 8am, DCA panel) on the Latin content of LLM training data repos, massive-scale philology, and classics-comp sci collaboration w. D. Bamman, C. Brooks, M. Hudspeth & B. O’Connor #digiclass #nlproc
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My #AIASCS talk is "Roman Art within Afroeurasia" as part of the panel "Still Defining Roman Art" org'd by P. de Staebler and Anne Hrychuk Kontokosta. It's a series of five minute talks then discussion. Here are my very few slides in miniature form. Friday at 2PM. Come if you can. #AIASCS2026
Table with a black and purple banner with books on it in a conference hall
Come visit ISAW and the NYU Press @nyupress.bsky.social at the #aiascs2026! Table 9. New works on #earlychristianity #romanempire #archaeology #papyrology #ancienteducation #romanegypt and the Arabic Library from NYU.
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Studia graeco-arabica Vol. 15 (2025) learningroads.cfs.unipi.it/sga-15-2025/ #openaccess