Happy birthday to the City of Rome #onthisday A.U.C. 2778. (Rome was founded on 21st April 753 BCE, according to the traditional chronology of Varro and the Fasti Capitolinus.)

2026 Michael Ventris Award in Mycenaean Studies 2026 Michael Ventris Award in Mycenaean Studies

The ICS is delighted to announce the winner of the 2026 Michael Ventris Award in Mycenaean Studies: Ester Salgarella for her project on ‘Developing a Digital Edition of the Linear A inscriptions of the Bronze Age Aegean for Comparative and Interdisciplinary Research’ ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Digital Lunches at the University of York

Join us for our last Digital Lunch of the Spring semester, 24 April, 1pm BST:

Dr Loes Opgenhaffen

"The automated archaeologist. An app to record archaeological visualization practice"

To get the zoom link, sign up below:

forms.gle/4BsKkUiVLHKJ...

Last call for the keynote lecture on Social Virtual Reality this afternoon. Please join us!

Ah, I didn't know that! (Yes, the sacking of the city started tomorrow; only the walls were breached on the 12th.)

822 years ago today Constantinople fell to Barbarians for the first time, leading to nearly 60 years of "Frankish" (Latin crusader) rule over most of the Roman Empire, and internal divisions that lasted until the final fall of Byzantium. The Fourth Crusade breached the city #onthisday in 1204 CE.

Happy 206th (re)birthday to the Venus de Milo, the fragmentary marble statue of the goddess Aphrodite, unearthed by workers on the island of Melos #onthisday in 1820.

Exploring Human Values through Social Virtual Reality for Cultural Heritage

We're very excited for Sara Perry (UCL)'s public, keynote lecture next week:

Exploring Human Values through Social Virtual Reality for Cultural Heritage.

Thursday 16th April at 17:00 BST, free for all to attend in person or online, book at ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

#onthisday in 1453 the siege of Constantinople begins with the arrival of the Ottoman army under the command of a young Mehmed II. In less than two months the city will fall, marking the final end of the Roman Empire.

Just in case you haven’t heard, we’re organising #CAAUK in #Glasgow this November! Hope to see familiar and new faces there!

@glasgow.ac.uk
@caaint.bsky.social

Digital Classicist Wiki linguistics editing event

Digital Classicist Wiki Language and Linguistics editing event. Friday 15th May 2026, 14:00 BST. Register for zoom link (and don't forget to request a wiki account if you don't already have one!): ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

EpiDoc: Train the Trainers

An online workshop on teaching and training in digital epigraphy, models and approaches that have worked, audiences and assessment.

EpiDoc: Train the Trainers.
Friday 24th April 14:00–16:00 BST
ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Happy 52nd (re)birthday to the Terracotta Army, nearly ten thousand individually crafted, life-size figurines buried with the emperor Qin Shi Huang in 210 BCE. Rediscovered by farmers in Shaanxi Province #onthisday in 1974.

RIP Publius Helvius Pertinax 1833 years ago today. This Roman Emperor of modest family origins who rose to power through a military career, was assassinated by his Praetorian Guard, who then sold the title to the highest bidder, #onthisday in 193 CE.

Exploring Human Values through Social Virtual Reality for Cultural Heritage

Public keynote lecture for next month's 3D imaging and modelling workshop: Sara Perry (UCL), Exploring Human Values through Social Virtual Reality for Cultural Heritage. Thursday 16th April, 17:00 BST.

Booking (in-person or Zoom): ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Photograph of a fragmentary Bronze Age fresco of a bull and three athletes from Knossos, Crete.

Are you - or is someone you know - a PhD student or ECR working on Late Bronze Age/ Early Iron Age/Archaic Greece? And within striking distance of London to tell us about your research in May (we have some money to help with travel costs)? Please share! forms.gle/PijTVxb7a8Nh...

The Backbone of the Library: A History of Women in the Hellenic Society When the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies was founded in 1879, it aimed that its members both male and female would have the same rights. Equality not only applied to its members but…

New Blog Post: The Backbone of the Library: A History of Women in the Hellenic Society

Dr Rosario Rovira Guardiola profiles Librarians of the Hellenic Society (and later Combined Classics Library) and the influence and contributions of women in these roles:
library.ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Happy 2068th birthday to Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid to you) author of reams of elegy as well as the epic compendium Metamorphoses, in which Greco-Roman mythology is characterised as capricious gods turning things into people and people into things. Born #onthisday in 43 BCE.

Starting now!

You can find readings, resources and exercise on the session page at: github.com/SunoikisisDC...

SunoikisisDC VR and Virtual Environments YouTube video by Sunoikisis DC

#SunoikisisDC session today: Thursday 19th March, 16:00 GMT

VR and Virtual Environments, with Juliette Quatre (London) and Lynn Verschuren (Glasgow).

Stream live (or watch later) at youtu.be/KrH7Qs5ZntI

Happy 150th birthday to Felix Jacoby, German classical philologist and author of the Fragmente der griechischen Historiker (FGH) and the 1913 Pauly entry on Herodotus. Born #onthisday in 1876.

RIP Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus 1846 years ago today; last of the Five "Good" Emperors, writer and philosopher, his reign marked by massive wars and plague (nonetheless called "Pax Romana"). Died #onthisday in 180 CE.

Happy 165th birthday to modern Italy 🎂 🇮🇹 unified #onthisday in 1861.

RIP Valentinian III, late Roman Emperor and hereditary autocrat from childhood (he became sole monarch at age 6), assassinated in the Campus Martius by vengeful soldiers #onthisday 1571 years ago.

The last #SunoikisisDC session in the Digital Approaches to Cultural Heritage programme will be next week.

VR and Virtual Environments, with Juliette Quatre (University of London), Lynn Verschuren (University of Glasgow). Live on Youtube Thursday 19th March, 16:00 GMT.

github.com/SunoikisisDC...

In addition to the video, there are slides, readings, resources and a suggested practical exercise on the #SunoikisisDC session page at github.com/SunoikisisDC...

Ethics, Sustainability and Paradata in 3D Heritage YouTube video by Sunoikisis DC

Starting in half an hour…

Ethics, Sustainability & Paradata in 3D Heritage, with Thomas Flynn @nebulousflynn.bsky.social (Digital Heritage Consulting) and Alicia Walsh (Leiden University). Stream live on youtu.be/NHHwjXxp_qQ (or join us any time later)

#SunoikisisDC

Digital Classicist London 2026 call for papers. Papers on any aspect of the ancient or pre-colonial worlds *and* that address innovative digital approaches. Deadline Monday 16th March 2026. blog.stoa.org/archives/4370

Digital Classicist London 2026 call for papers. Papers on any aspect of the ancient or pre-colonial worlds *and* that address innovative digital approaches. Deadline Monday 16th March 2026. blog.stoa.org/archives/4370

On this #iwd I'm slightly obsessed with the first successful woman DJ in the US (radio show from 1929) who was born on 31st October 1900, and whose parents named her Halloween. 💀