Bond between dogs and humans dates back more than 15,000 years, study finds Research suggests hunter-gatherers were feeding dogs and giving them ritual burials as early as the last ice age

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Our best friends for a long, long time.

'Bond between dogs and humans dates back more than 15,000 years, study finds'
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Proving, pleasing and persuading: why ancient rhetoric still matters Challenge the standard picture of the ancient orator with Professor Henriette van der Blom and the role of rhetoric in contemporary society, in this lecture whe

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Feb 6-8 & 13-15 Buninyong Botanic Gardens (near Ballarat, Victoria) - The #Birds by #Aristophanes - book www.trybooking.com/events/landi... Info: timesnewsgroup.com.au/ballarat/liv...

All first equal?

Wonderful!

When I arrived at Oxford in July 1986 the first things Fergus got me to read was "Rostovtzeff’s two great works". The vols. are sitting here to my right as I write 39 years later.

At this Greek aged care home in Melbourne, everything old is new again Residents of a Greek aged care home in Melbourne's north-east once made bus trips to visit the Hellenic Museum, but now the museum has come to them.

‘These aged care residents in Melbourne were given a rare glimpse of ancient Greece’

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Homer himself (also known as Tigranes) says he wrote the Iliad before the Odyssey, despite what many others say, according to Lucian in his True History...

Pompeii’s Ancient Garden of Hercules Reopens With Thousands of Flowers Planted - GreekReporter.com The ancient Garden of Hercules in Pompeii has reopened after major restoration, reviving plants, trade history, and the irrigation system.

Pompeii’s Ancient Garden of Hercules Reopens With Thousands of Flowers Planted.

🏺 #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics #AncientBluesky 🏛️

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Wearing Antiquity: modern fashion and the past 2000 BCE - 1000 AD 9th International Conference IMAGINES

Program/Registration - 9th International Conference IMAGINES - Wearing Antiquity: modern fashion and the past 2000 BCE-1000 AD - hybrid/London (ICS) - March 19-21 (UK time) ics.sas.ac.uk/events/weari...

Rotherham man fined for keeping pet alligator called Cliff in garden - BBC News The reptile was living in a tank in the back garden of an address in Rotherham, a court hears.

If only he’d called the alligator something other than Cliff… www.bbc.com/news/article...

something less edgy, perhaps?

a man in a suit and tie making a face ALT: a man in a suit and tie making a face

Jaws

2025

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New Zealand's Mount Taranaki gets same legal rights as a person The aim is to address injustices of colonisation, including confiscating land from local tribes.

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This is brilliant - the red tie of Damocles, Jan. 2025.

Trump’s initial orders reverse Biden on health care costs, protections from discrimination Trump's executive orders took aim at Biden's priorities, from drug pricing to gender discrimination.

Trump has rescinded Biden’s Executive Order 14087, “Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for Americans,” which included things like lowering state Medicaid costs for the most expensive therapeutics, reducing Medicare payments for proven drugs, and creating a flat, $2 Medicare copay for generic drugs

Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...

Latin Word of the Year 2024 With the Vox Anni contest now in its third season, the Thesaurus linguae Latinae community is excited to share with you the contestants for Latin Word of the Year 2024. (Learn more about the previous ...

Vote for #TLL Thesaurus Linguae Latinae #Latin Word of the Year 2024: parerga.hypotheses.org/3516

* #reteiaclor “to net, fish out”
* #retotatototato (onomatopoeic imitation of a wind instrument)
* #retroactim “retroactively”
* #revaleo “to be well again”
* #revolumen “churning”

Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire I have to admit that having two children since April of 2020 has put me behind on blogging. But I was also working on a book that I am quite proud of ...

Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire – Sarah E. Bond - sarahemilybond.com/2024/08/05/s...

The Torlonia Marbles Are Coming to Museums in Chicago, Texas and Montreal For the first time, the ancient marbles are traveling out of Europe to the United States and Canada, for a prolonged stint.

The Torlonia Marbles Are Coming to Museums in Chicago, Texas and Montreal - The New York Times
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Singing Christmas Hedgehogs - Full Version YouTube video by Birdbox Studio

I do not normally post Xmassy things but... www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_Ac...

Talks over return of Parthenon marbles to Athens are ‘well advanced’ Exclusive: Keir Starmer reiterates support for British Museum reaching deal with Greek PM, who visits UK on Tuesday

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And now a largely unrelated collection of pieces from the MFA (gotta figure out how to link to relevant parties), camels that I saw and loved. This camel, 1-2C CE, from the Han Dynasty.

Humanities Academy announces 41 new Academy Fellows – Australian Academy of the Humanities The Australian Academy of the Humanities has elected 41 new humanities scholars elected to Fellowship today.

Humanities Academy announces 41 new Academy Fellows humanities.org.au/power-of-the... - including Prof Tim Parkin @senex64.bsky.social (Melbourne):

New Zealand: Maori protest as hikoi reaches Wellington The country is seen as a world leader for supporting indigenous rights, but many fear that's now at risk.

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