Graphic featuring a landscape photograph of the city of Rome skyline, interspersed with trees and greenery. The text around the image reads “Healthy Living in Rome’s Green Spaces with Andrew Fox”.

We continue our Earth Month series with a #PeoplingBlog post from Andrew Fox @acfox.bsky.social. Here, Andrew introduces us to the ways in which Roman writers contemplated the potential health benefits of integrating green spaces into the city of Rome: peoplingthepast.com/2026/04/17/b...

Graphic featuring a collage of screen grabs from gaming platforms and the text "Let's Play Antiquity with Eduardo García-Molina"

Our latest instalment of the #PeoplingBlog, features the exciting pedagogical work of @egarcmol.bsky.social. Here, he takes us through his course “The Ancient World in Video Games” to highlight the value of bringing gaming into the modern university classroom: peoplingthepast.com/2026/03/27/b...

Learn more about Archaeology at the Burnaby Village Museum this Spring Break with SFU Professors Dr. Cara Tremain and Dr. Sabrina Higgins! March 18, 20, 25, 27 from 11am to 3:30pm. Please see the link for details. buff.ly/WnkLrzS
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À l’U d’O, le seul programme d’études anciennes en français vacille encore Le programme d’études en Antiquité grecque et romaine est de nouveau suspendu à l’Université d’Ottawa. Faute d’un nombre d’inscriptions suffisant pour la rentrée 2026, le baccalauréat spécialisé —…

Le Droit donne la parole au département sur la re-suspension.

« On a un rayonnement, une visibilité » - Geoffrey Greatrex sur l'importance du programme pour la communauté

Lisez et partagez.

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Timeline of harm to Franco-Ontarian students:

Oct 2025: French classics program suspended
Jan 2026: "Reinstated" after pressure
Feb 2026: Re-suspended after 10 weeks

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Just a reminder that we are now accepting applications for our Post-Doc in Hellenic Studies at SFU.

We are thrilled to have been recognised by the Archaeological Institute of America with a Public Engagement Award! Congratulations to all of the other fantastic winners 🥳
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Do you want to be on the Peopling the Past Podcast next season? Does your work insect the ancient and the modern? Fill out the Google form below if you’re interested.

We are now accepting applications for our post-doc. This year we are looking specifically for a scholar who can teach a course on Ancient Athenian democracy to fill a gap in our teaching complement. Please consider applying to join our incredible team at SFU.

Marta and a group of volunteers stand together with a banner for the Vindolanda Excavations 2024-2028. You can see Hadrian’s Wall in the background.

In this week’s #PeoplingBlog, Dr. Marta Alberti-Dunn reflects on her research on the history of volunteers on Hadrian’s Wall and the evolution of those tasked with performing skilled labour on the excavation of this site:
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Uzma is seen with a colleague photographing accession cards in a light box.

This week’s #PeoplingBlog features the work of Uzma Z. Rizvi, whose project at MohenjoDaro in Pakistan highlights the ways in which archaeologists can engage in decolonial approaches in their use of legacy data through the framework of an archaeology of care:
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Graphic featuring a central image of a segment of Roman scale armor and the blog title “Pannonians Abroad? New Evidence from a Roman Auxiliary Base in Central Turkey with Andrew L. Goldman”

In today’s new #PeoplingBlog, Andrew L. Goldman takes us through his archaeological project at the ancient Roman auxiliary base at Gordion in central Anatolia, and discusses the possibility that Pannonian soldiers were stationed at this site:
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Blog #112: “What Should You Do When You Encounter One of Our Egyptian Mummified Ancestors?” A 12-Point Manifesto on How to Deal with Egyptian Mummified Ancestral Remains with Egypt’s Dispersed Heritag... In this week’s blog post, we feature the work of our Egyptian colleagues from the Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage project. Here, they offer us a 12-point manifesto which highlights the ways …

Honoured that @peoplingthepast.bsky.social gets to host this absolute 🔥🔥🔥 manifesto on the treatment of Egyptian mummified ancestral remains written by our colleagues at Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage Project. This is a must read!

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Sign the Petition Save Greek and Latin at the University of Ottawa!

More than 1,000 signatures in just 3 days! Plus de 1 000 signatures en seulement 3 jours! Keep signing & sharing the petition to save Greek & Roman Studies at uOttawa. Continuez à signer et à partager! buff.ly/1azgdKV #ottawa #SOSÉtudesAnciennes #SOSClassicsUO #onfr

Please consider signing this very important petition to keep Greek & Roman Studies at uOttawa 👇🏻

Please sign this petition to save the Honours Classics program at the University of Ottawa, the same program from which I graduated in 2003. This is also the only program in Ontario that delivers Greek and Latin training to Franco-Ontarians, and its loss would be immeasurable for that community.

This was the program from which I received my Honours in Classics and now the university is effectively shutting it down by gutting the language program. Join me in writing the university to save the program that offered me so many opportunities and shaped me into the scholar I am today.

Someone Donated These Mysterious Artifacts to a Thrift Shop. Experts Think They Might Date to Medieval Times A shopper who said he was an archaeologist spotted the 11 rings and two medallions and alerted a volunteer

Keep an eye out at your local thrift shop - you never know what you will fine! SNF Centre Director Dr. Sabrina Higgins is in
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with the her amazing new project - found in a Chilliwack thrift store!

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Looking forward to giving this talk at the University of Ottawa next week to the department where my public scholarship journey began.

Two stone tablets inscribed with Greek text.

In today’s #PeoplingBlog we continue our “Unknown Peoples” Series! Read on as Goran Sanev takes us through the historical and archaeological evidence for the Paeonians, one of the oldest proto-historical communities in the Central Balkans: peoplingthepast.com/2025/09/26/b... /1

An image of two small bronze discs with elephants as the decoration.

On today’s new #PeoplingBlog, @lylaahlb.bsky.social takes us through her research on elephants and how they, and their accompanying peoples, served as vehicles for cultural exchange and transmission of knowledge as they traversed land and sea in antiquity:
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@sfu.ca students Diego Barrios-Stewart, Citlalli Gonzalez, and Nick Parker along with alumni Sarah Grenier and Madison Poole visiting the site of Stobi in North Macedonia alongside @sabrinahiggins.bsky.social. They are currently working on the excavations at Golemo Gradiste. @sfufass.bsky.social

We recently teamed up with Pasts Imperfect to discuss all things Peopling the Past! Read our contribution (and subscribe to this fantastic newsletter!) here 👇🏻

The first spotting of Ancient Pasts for Modern Audiences in the wild! We can’t wait for all of you to get your hands on this volume!

I’m so happy that you’ve received your copy. I’m still anxiously waiting by the mailbox for mine! It’s so wonderful to see it out in the world though! Thanks again for a really wonderful contribution to the book.

It’s not often that I’m social media these days, but when I am, it’s to share that Chelsea and I’s co-edited volume has been published with Routledge. The Open Access version is available for immediate download on Routledge’s website! We can’t wait for you to read all of the incredible contributions

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby!: A Conversation with Liv Albert Presenting popular podcast host, Liv Albert

We’re thrilled to have @mythsbaby.bsky.social join us this Friday for the SNF Seminar Series. Register at the link below to join us in person or virtually as we chat all things Greek Myth.
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Blog Post #83: Graduate Student Feature with Dora Gao In this week’s blog post, we interview Dora Gao, a Ph.D. Candidate in the Interdepartmental Program in Ancient History (IPAH) at the University of Michigan, who takes us through their research on re...

Today’s Peopling Blog is another exciting Grad Student Feature! Read on as we interview Dora Gao, who takes us through their research on religious kinship, affect, and belonging in Ptolemaic Egypt with a particular focus on marginalized populations: peoplingthepast.com/2023/09/22/b... /1