I didn’t know her well, but she was very kind to me once at a conference where I felt lost and out of place. A brilliant archaeologist. May her memory be a blessing.

Ooh, moving it up my TBR list immediately

A black sign with a picture of a skeleton reading a book and the text “Just one more chapter”

Feeling some real kinship with this mummy…

Archaeologists Find Iliad “Catalog of Ships” Papyrus Inside Egyptian Mummy - Arkeonews Archaeologists in Egypt’s Oxyrhynchus have discovered a Roman-era tomb containing mummies with golden tongues and a rare papyrus

This is just so cool. A Roman-era mummy recently excavated in Egypt contained a fragment of papyrus with a section of the Iliad.

Canadian woman killed after gunman opens fire at Mexico’s Teotihuacán pyramids At least four more injured at world heritage site in latest violent incident as country prepares to co-host World Cup

“One witness, Laura Torres, told the newspaper La Jornada she heard more than 20 shots coming from the Pyramid of the Moon, the second largest in the ancient complex of constructions.”

Different strokes: changing identities and connectivity between Iron Age Ireland and Northern Britain The rich decoration of Irish and British Iron Age metalwork once conveyed complex symbolic meanings, though its language has long since been lost. Ornamentation remains a vital avenue for interpret...

The wee paper Different Strokes is here, and Open Access!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our essay by @ResObscura on how cannabis travelled from the streets of Machilipatnam to 17th-century London's scientific circles, including the very 1st recorded description in English of a cannabis high... publicdomainreview.org/essay/h... #Happy420 #fourtwenty #420day

Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

BirdCast's Bird Migration Forecast shows predicted nocturnal migration approximately 3 hours after local sunset and is updated every 6 hours. (Map courtesy of University of Illinois, Purdue University, and Cornell Lab of Ornithology.)

BirdCast is forecasting a busy night tonight on the Pacific and Central Flyways.

To protect #birds, turn off non-essential indoor and outdoor lights from dusk to dawn during the full spring migration period: March 1–June 15. More information: birdcast.org/lights-out/.

Anyone have suggestions for where to build a new personal academic website these days, preferably for free or cheap? I had a beautiful web page on weebly but it was costing too much.

Well, I didn't expect to see this on camera. Western fence lizard catches a bee and eats it.

The lizards are insectivores that feed on a variety of invertebrates, including bees, wasps, beetles, flies, caterpillars, and ants.

This is a 1st for the water dish!
❤️🦎❤️

(Call for papers) Global Histories of Hair, c.1500-2026 histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/04/les-... #histbody

In the Northland, Tom Thomson 1916

In the Northland, Tom Thomson 1916

Just accepted a job teaching anthropology for the fall. I am so excited to get back to teaching and back to my own field!

Another piece with a little more info on that ancient Greek coin found in Berlin www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/75848

Amazing find! 🏺

3 Southern California residents sentenced in bear suit insurance fraud scheme Three Southern California residents have been sentenced in a bizarre insurance fraud scheme which prosecutors say involved them staging fake bear attacks on high-end cars.

People tried to scam insurance by dressing up as a bear and wrecking luxury cars.

"Investigators then took the video to biologists with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to also look at the video. The biologists said, 'it was clearly a human in a bear suit.'"

abc7.com/post/3-south...

Really interesting read and gorgeous weaving

15 old shoes found in archaeological excavations around the world, including at Roman forts Shoes can give us an interesting insight into what people used to wear. Here are a dozen of the most extraordinary finds from the archaeological record.

Bring on the old shoes! Here are shoes from ancient times to centuries ago, including from the Roman auxiliary fort, Vindolanda 🏺🧪

Fort Lewis College formally welcomes its first Indigenous president Fort Lewis is a former federal Indian boarding school, making the appointment of President Heather Shotton significant because she is a descendant of boarding school survivors.

They offered free tuition to Indigenous students and made efforts to face their history, and now 40% of their students are Indigenous and they have a new Indigenous president.

Gorgeous color and fascinating confluences of eastern and western art traditions at the Yale Center for British Art special exhibit “Painters, Ports, and Profits: Artists and the East India Company, 1750–1850”

And from elsewhere at the museum… They recently renovated and reopened, and it all felt very fresh and springy today. Another great Yale museum that I hadn’t visited in a long time.

Gorgeous color and fascinating confluences of eastern and western art traditions at the Yale Center for British Art special exhibit “Painters, Ports, and Profits: Artists and the East India Company, 1750–1850”

The American gestapo abducted an 85 year-old widow.

Was she one of the worst of the worst? No, her step-son, a retired Alabama state trooper, got ICE to put her in a detention center to deport her because he wanted all of his father's inheritance.

Sounds like the son is the worst of the worst.

This fresco depicts a riot. Figures can be seen fighting inside and outside the arena. The arena has external stairs to reach the upper seating, archways leading into the arena, and awnings shading the central area. MAN Napoli: inv. 112222. Photo credit: Carole Raddato via World History Encyclopaedia.

✨Riot at the arena!✨

This fresco depicts a riot at the arena in Pompeii. The fresco likely depicts the riot that broke out in 59 CE between Pompeians and the neighbouring Nucerians.

"In other words, Conybeare says, 'the foundations of Western thought came from Africa'.”

Cartoon titled “cognitive assessment test.” It says “Question: Please identify the doctor” over two images- one of a doctor and one of Jesus.

Cognitive assessment

Devastating: Hampshire College is permanently closing following the Fall 2026 Semester. A beautiful institution & community that has done so much for so many. My child is a current Hampshire senior. Hampshire's approach to education is so unique, humane, & exciting—I've seen it first hand. Tragic

Too literal? www.getty.edu/art/collecti...

lol i knew this one would be easy for you