21 April — the traditional foundation of Rome.
Marking it with The First King (Il Primo Re).
It’s marketed in English as “Historical Latin Action” — which is technically accurate… but also funny.
Yes, the film is in Latin (with subtitles), making the story feel raw and immediate.
#Classics
A very good weekend:
paper submitted- research curiosity fed, 🔬
theatre time - mind reset, 🎭
and tennis - for the body, the rhythm and the quite satisfaction of a clean hit 🎾
Somewhere between sea and sky, everything feels possible.
🌊 💙
Christina Koch’s journey around the Moon is an inspiration :
To every woman and girl — be ambitious, be brave, be loud, and be wonderfully you.
The sky was never the limit — and now we know, neither is the Moon.
And I can hear her saying in my voice: just… f&@ off!
🐙🫶
Spring’s back—colours are finally showing up again and the sky’s actually blue. Feels like everything’s just a bit lighter.🌸🫶 #spring #cats
My talk at ICS Archaeology Seminar
Understanding Ancient Craft: Scientific Insights into Greek and Hellenistic Decorated Vases
📅 Wednesday, 25 March 2026
🕔 17:00–18:30
📍 Hybrid (Senate House, Room 264 & online). Please register in the link 👇
ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Island of Galešnjak
It’s a small, naturally occurring heart-shaped island in the Pašman Channel of the Adriatic Sea ❤️
📢 ICS Seminar | 21 January 2026
Dr Amy Styring (University of Oxford)
Isotopic insights into past cultivation and dietary practices
How can plant isotope analysis transform our understanding of ancient agriculture and diet?
🕔 17:00 (UK)
💻 Online | 🏛 In person: Senate House, Room 264
🔗 Register here👇
🍞🍯🍷 Food Experimental Archaeology
Libum (small bread), an energy snack with seeds, nuts & honey, and white wine cooked with dates, bay leaves & pepper.
The Greeks and Romans used lots of honey, and wine was drunk in many different (and tastier!) ways than today #archaeology #food
📣 ICS Seminar & Greek/Roman nibbles. Join us tonight 👇
🍽️ The Integrated Table: Reconstructing Ancient Foodways
From the Adriatic to the Danube — exploring ancient diets through archaeology, science & texts.
🗓️ 14 Jan 2026 | 📍 Senate House / Online
🥂 5 pm
🔗 Register: ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
While the weather in 🏴 is gloomy and cold, I hope these photos from archaeological excavations on the island of Šćedro 🇭🇷bring a smile to your face.
Some very specific excavation skills for working on karstic Dalmatian islands 😄
More about project 👉 prijatelji-otoka-scedro.hr/en/projects
📣 ICS Seminar:
🍽️ The Integrated Table: Reconstructing Ancient Foodways
From the Adriatic to the Danube — exploring ancient diets through archaeology, science & texts.
🗓️ 14 Jan 2026 | 📍 Senate House / Online
🥂 Greek–Roman drinks & nibbles after the event!
🔗 Register: ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
📣 Call for Contributions | #EAA2026
Islands don’t isolate — they connect.
Session #111 invites papers rethinking Mediterranean islands as bridges within wider networks of movement, materiality & exchange.
🎤 Keynote: Cyprian Broodbank
🗓 Deadline: 5 Feb
📤 Submission 👉 www.e-a-a.org/eaa2026
Winter sunset in Split 🇭🇷 🌅
It’s a blue Christmas 🎄 ☀️
Season Greetings from the Adriatic
Christmas Eve by the sea 🌊
#home 🇭🇷
💫New research out now!💫
Hutson and colleagues demonstrate that men get hired as faculty in archaeology PhD programs more often than women, putting strain on women PhD mentors. And they have some suggestions about what to do about it, too.
Read here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Excellent talk on network analysis of archaeometallurgical data (copper) from the Balkans (c.6200-3200 BC) by Miljana Radivojevic @ Senat House
It showed what can be achieved by implementing computer science and archaeological data. 💻⛏️ 📊
🔔 ICS Archaeology Seminar – 10 Dec, 5pm (hybrid)
Dr Miljana Radivojević: “Community Detection in Archaeology: Early Copper Networks in the Balkans.”
See how network science reveals prehistoric copper exchange (6200–3200 BC) & past social dynamics.
📍 Senate House, Room 264 | 💻 Online
🔗 Register 👇
#MosaicMonday from the Archaeological Museum Split 🐚
Stunning 3rd c. AD Triton from the villa of the Roman provincial consul in Salona. Once part of 10m² floor, the preserved panel shows Triton rising from the sea, with seaweed, crab pincers and octopus arms in his hair.
www.armus.hr/en/collectio...
Of course we get England.
Here we go again!
Today Komiža on the island of Vis celebrates St Nicholas (locally called Mikula), the protector of sailors and fishermen. Every 6 Dec an old wooden boat is burned in front of the hilltop church of St Nicholas — a powerful ritual of gratitude, renewal, and respect for the sea. 🔥⛵️🌊
✨ #ThrowbackThursday ✨
Nelly’s brilliant talk on organic residue analysis in Greek decorated pottery @ Institute of Classical Studies last Wednesday 🏺🧪
We leaned what these vessels once held—not only wine and olive oil, and what that tells us about daily life in the ancient world.
Sunny day in Cambridge ☀️😎
I made a mistake by sharing a cat photo, and now my feed is full of cats.
🙀🐾
🪦 #TombTuesday: An Illyrian helmet from Zakotorac, Pelješac 🇭🇷 (good luck with pronunciation 😀). Placed in a drystone mound, not a tomb, it may have been a ritual/votive object.
With Greek pottery, it shows Iron Age Adriatic trade & social organisation.
More here: www.e-a-a.org/EAA/EAA/News...
