Une cité stratégique fondée par Alexandre le Grand refait surface dans les sables de Mésopotamie Après avoir disparu pendant des siècles sous les sédiments, les conflits et les transformations des fleuves, une ville antique longtemps recherchée refait surface. Des archéologues affirment avoir ...

Des archéologues affirment avoir identifié Alexandrie sur le Tigre buff.ly/YAAmbLa #Antiquité #AlexandreLeGrand #archéologie #HistoireAnciennet

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New Tusculan Disputations OCT edition by Robert Kaster. Out May 2026.

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Eurasian Studies Vol. 23 Nos. 1-2 (2025) brill.com/view/journal... @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

SAS's Dean and Pro Vice-Chancellor, Professor Claire Gorrara, speaks about the incredible connections with non-governmental organisations you'll access through studying the School of Advanced Study. Find out more: sas.ac.uk/postgraduate-study

Medieval Manuscripts and the Computational Humanities - Arc Humanities Press This book examines the transformations in medieval studies—and the humanities more broadly—enabled by decades of digitization and advances in computation...

Medieval Manuscripts and the Computational Humanities: Big Data, Scribes, and the “Paris Bible” / David Joseph Wrisley & @estellegvl.bsky.social www.arc-humanities.org/978180270243... #openaccesss @archumanities.bsky.social

Classics #seminars hosted by the University of Turin
📆 27 March at 3 to 5pm CET
📍 11 Palazzo Nuovo
💻️ Online: bit.ly/4sUtmR6

Thomas Biggs (University of St Andrews)
"Camilla and Chloreus in Vergil’s Aeneid"

Elena Giusti (Cambridge University)
"La voce di Didone"

"The five articles included in this collection concentrate on politics, education, and performance as three interconnected areas of the text's reception"

The latest BICS, ed. Maria Fragoulaki & Neville Morley, explores "Doing things with Thucydides"
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Our latest article is titled "A Feminist Rereading of Desire in the Odyssey’s Calypso Episode", by Alexandra Meghji. Now available to read on our website. Link in the bio!

#classics#Odysseyr#ancientliterature#ancientstudies

The bars and chords of Clio - ἁρμονία, σύνθησις and Ancient Historiography Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

Register now for the final PGWiP Seminar of Spring Term
Fri 27 March, 5pm

Sebastian Zellner (Freie Universität Berlin) will present The bars and chords of Clio - ἁρμονία, σύνθησις and Ancient Historiography

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Pasts Imperfect (3.19.26) This week, scholar of late antique Judaism and Angelologist Mika Ahuvia discusses the shared vocabulary of angels in antiquity. Then, ancient graffiti written in South Asian languages are discovered i...

The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! This week, ancient Judaism expert Mika Ahuvia discusses angels in Late Antiquity. Then, South Asian graffiti in the Valley of the Kings, religion in Sinners, cultural heritage damage in Iran & Lebanon, new ancient journals from @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more 😇

"Manumission in the Roman world and the Americas"
Myles Lavan (St Andrews)

Online #Lecture
📆 26 March at 18.00 Athens time (16.00 UK time)
🔗 To watch and participate in discussion, register: bit.ly/3PM4pZR

Greetings one and all! Bursary applications are now open for 2026, find out more here:

www.trac.org.uk/bursary-appl...

The ancient Goths were an ethnically diverse group Ancient DNA reveals that the Goths of eastern Europe, some of whom would ultimately sack the city of Rome, may have been a mix of peoples from three continents

Glad to see media is finally catching on to something our field has been arguing for like... over half a century?

At least my esteemed colleague @jmharland.bsky.social is getting the recognition he deserves!

The cippus, which seems to have been a border stone, appears to display a text dedicating a legal contract between the Etruscan families of Velthina (from Perugia) and Afuna (from Chiusi), regarding the sharing or use, including water rights, of a property upon which there was a tomb belonging to the noble Velthinas.

#EpigraphyTuesday

The Cippus Perusinus is a stone tablet (cippus) discovered on the hill of San Marco, near Perugia, #Italy, in 1822. The tablet bears 46 lines of incised #Etruscan text, about 130 words - 3rd or 2nd century BC.
(See Alt. For more)

#Archaeology #History #writing

Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic Cambridge Core - Ancient History - Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic

Thrilled that Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic is now published: www.cambridge.org/core/books/w... @awaws.org @lewismarkwebb.bsky.social @resaustrales.bsky.social @acrsn.bsky.social @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @womensclasscaucus.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org

We have published our first review article of 2026, "Homer Iliad I-XII: A text and translation for students
& Homer Iliad XIII-XXIV: A text and translation for students. Coventry: Machaira." by Wayne Rimmer.
Link: www.newclassicists.com/individual-a...

#classics#ancientliterature#ancientstudies

#EFAevents #SemMod
📅 04/03 - 11h30 EET
📜 Comment peut-on être Syrien ? Espaces de référence, appartenances et mobilités dans le Bilal al-Sham au temps des premières révolutions arabes (1920-1936)
🗣️ Leyla DAKHLI | CNRS / CHS
📌 @efathenes.bsky.social | sur inscription
👉 www.efa.gr/events/semmo...

Seeing Old Age in Pre-Modern Cultures Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

Seeing Old Age in Pre-Modern Cultures
Fri 13 Mar, 12pm shorturl.at/jzAg8

Understandings of old age & the role of the old in society vary widely across time & cultures. This event launches a new initiative to enable comparisons & discussions between scholars of pre-modern cultures in Europe & China.

Rare Roman lead ingots found by metal detectorists in Ceredigion The objects, which were used to produce tools and weapons, were found on grazing land in west Wales.

''Exceptionally rare' Roman lead blocks found on farmland'

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Check out the SASA Intro Guides project to get basic overviews of general and complex topics
available Intro Guides:
Greek Sculptures
Greek Vases
Greek Funerary Sculpture
Athenian White-ground Lekythoi
Mesopotamian Religion
Check out our Intro Guides, here: saveancientstudies.org/intro-guides

Save the date! Join us for five inaugural lectures by our colleagues who were recently made professor: Prof Emma Buckley, Prof Alice König, Prof Myles Lavan, Prof Alex Long, and Prof Carlos Machado.

⏰️ 1 April 2026 at 4pm.
📍 Buchanan lecture theatre, St Andrews.

#AllWelcome #InauguralLecture

STUDYING CLASSICS AT UNIVERSITY - OF GODS AND WOMEN IN THE ANCIENT WORLD A University Taster Day of mini lectures and interactive experiences for school students.

We have the next RHUL Studying Classics at University on 2nd July (not June, sorry!) and it's titled 'Of Gods and Women in the Ancient World'! Do pass on to any sixth formers of your acquaintance who might be interested.

Photogrammetric image of a quarry, in which a humanoid sculpture lies on its back, overlaid with the text 'Methods Papers, Antiquity'.

Have you developed a new methodological technique for doing #archaeology? Or maybe you're applying a method for the first time? 🏺

Submit a methods paper to Antiquity and get your research in front of a global audience

🔗 antiquity.ac.uk/submit

“Matrilineality, Materialism, and Minoans...”
Christopher Anaforian (St Andrews), Emily Strba (Edinburgh)

STARR #Seminar, 📆 26 February,⏰6pm
In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate
Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email starrgroup@st-andrews.ac.uk for link)
🔗 View abstract: bit.ly/4aNAYOc

#AllWelcome

Women’s Day Roundtable | Femicide and gender violence in ancient Rome: evidence from epigraphy and Roman art - bsr.ac.uk Although historical and literary sources from the Roman age report several cases of femicide, i.e. husbands or lovers killing or having their partners killed, and although we know how restrictive and ...

You're invited: Women’s Day Roundtable
Femicide and Gender Violence in Ancient Rome: Evidence from Epigraphy and Roman Art

Marina Lo Blundo in conversation with Kelsey Madden

🗓 11 March 2026 | ⏰ 18:00 – 19:30 | 📍 Hybrid | Free in person
💻 Register to watch online: bsr.ac.uk/womens-day-r...

The Journal of Roman Studies Vol. 115 (2025) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @theromansoc.bsky.social @darcytuttle.bsky.social @profyarrow.bsky.social

Starts tomorrow! Still time to sign up...

#RAC/TRAC2026 in Aarhus is coming up!

Registration is open with an early bird discount until March 15: www.romansocietyrac.ac.uk/ractrac-2026...

@theromansoc.bsky.social is also offering bursaries, check them out here: www.romansocietyrac.ac.uk/ractrac-2026... (Deadline 23 Feb)

#AncientBlueSky

Classical Association Conference, Manchester, April 2026 The University of Manchester, with the Manchester Metropolitan University, will jointly host the Classical Association Conference from 10th-12th April, 2026.  The Classical Association's Annual…

Classical Association Conference, Manchester, April 2026 buff.ly/P7hrWby #Classics #AncientHistory #Archaeology