Prices and provenance of papyri recently sold or for sale Collectors, who keep buying despite my many warnings, alerted me on the appearance of few papyri for sale. A Coptic fragment, mislabeled as “Greek”, was auctioned in France last Sunday …

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Stolen Fragments | Stanford University Press In 2012, Steve Green, billionaire and president of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores, announced a recent purchase of a Biblical artefact—a fragment of papyrus, just discovered, carrying lines from...

Last was "Stolen Fragments" by @robertamazza.bsky.social. This is a riveting academic mystery, going on a mind-boggling tour of the tangled world of trade in ancient artifacts and the development of a massive scandal at its center. Highly recommend

Full review: bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/... (8/8)

Thank you so much for reading!🙏🌼

The Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race Cambridge Core - Classical Studies (General) - The Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race

Now available for preorder, with promo code TCCCR2026, "The Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race," a major intervention against the decades-old orthodoxy of the alleged anachronism of "race" and "racism" for the study of the ancient past. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.

The lost, found and lost again Sappho Brothers Poem papyrus Screenshot of the Brothers Poem papyrus in the box made for the Christie’s London sale: A couple of weeks ago I gave an online talk for the Paideia Institute and realized that many are unawar…

Where is the Sappho Brothers Poem papyrus? We only know that it is LOST. Again. #Sappho #classics #papyrology
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My review of @robertamazza.bsky.social’s “Stolen Fragments”—an excellent piece of detective work and a thoughtful commentary on our responsibilities as stewards of cultural heritage—is available OA in Manuscript Studies. I loved this book and I think you will too :)

Thank you!

The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care? The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
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Alberto Sordi il dentone - scena con le gemelle Kessler - "I Complessi" (1965) YouTube video by Memorie Cinematografiche

Indimenticabili ❤️
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A small square mosaic glass inlay displayed against a dark background, showing an ibis, a long-legged bird with a curved beak walking on a thin red ground line. The inlay is light green with a slightly porous, pitted surface and slightly chipped edges.

Fascinating world of ancient #glass ! A small-scale but colourful mosaic glass inlay depicting an Ibis. This inlay, originating from a workshop in Roman-era Egypt, was discovered in Tawern, near Trier, Germany.
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We’re thrilled that @robertamazza.bsky.social is at the CSMC today! Tonight, she will give a talk on ‘Papyrology and Reparations’, addressing the regimes of violence, injustice, and inequality that papyrology has been enmeshed in since colonial times.
Hybrid event, all welcome!
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Stefan Tarnowski | Plausible Deniability From the sieges within the siege, Palestinian journalists are smeared as terrorists and assassinated by airstrike. Even...

‘Thanks to journalists such as Anas al-Sharif and his colleagues who risked their lives, for over six hundred days the genocide has been live-streamed for the world to see. And yet we are told we must wait for the experts.’

Stefan Tarnowski on Gaza and the media: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...

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They are dispersed in many different collections including Manchester Rylands only few still in Ravenna, long and interesting story. I'd be delighted to do something about them now that I am based in Ravenna!❤️

Okay I'm going to join in.

One like, one fact/opinion about portrait panels/Roman Egypt.

When students are better than those who teach them...

Intrigue Ben Lewis unravels the tangled story of a Christian billionaire family, stolen relics, fake treasures and the scholar turned sleuth who exposed the scandal of biblical proportions. Intrigue: 'Jaw-drop...

By the way, it's a very interesting podcast, thank you for working on that with the BBC! For those who haven't listened to it yet: pca.st/6qsrnxx4

Thank you for engaging with the podcast! I think each case of repatriation must be handled with care. In conflict areas you can wait until the situation escalate. My approach is reparations are needed as explained in book and articles!

Second Rare Inscription Honoring Justinian and Theodora Unearthed in Kosovo’s Ancient City of Ulpiana - Arkeonews A second rare inscription dedicated to Emperor Justinian and Empress Theodora has been unearthed at the ancient city of Ulpiana, offering new

Second Rare Inscription Honoring Justinian and Theodora Unearthed in Kosovo’s Ancient City of Ulpiana - Arkeonews
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This was an incredible season to record. I would like to thank our season 4 guests for sharing their wisdom and making our fields better through their scholarship and advocacy. They demonstrate everyday that things do not need to go on as they always have.

Explosive Rockefeller Letters Expose Met Museum's Looted Harihara At Whale Hunting, we illuminate hidden worlds and expose closely-held secrets. Today, we’re pulling back the velvet curtain on one of the world’s most prestigious museums: the Met. Our latest investi...

Project Brazen, producer of the “Dynamite Doug” podcast, has published 3 letters illustrating some of the historic collaboration between London dealer Spink & Son and indicted trafficker Douglas Latchford. There are many interesting details. Here are a few. (Thread)
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This seems to have resonated on here too (I cannot tell you how happy this makes me) so I'll add some of the reasoning:

I asked a lot of friends & family who are not academics (often not readers of non-fiction what they would do if they wanted to know more about a topic they were interested in).

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See also Nadia Abu El-Haj's _Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society_ (2002)

The needs of our communities cannot be subject to the whims of the wealthy.

Charity is no substitute for taxation.

Medieval gold ring found in castle in Slovakia has rare purple sapphire imported from Sri Lanka An analysis of a 700-year-old ring found in a Hungarian castle reveals a unique reddish-purple sapphire set in 18-karat gold with a lion decoration.

Check out this gorgeous Sri Lankan purple sapphire ring found in a medieval castle in Slovakia. It might have belonged to a bishop. 🏺🧪