In February 2025, #WCCWiki created or edited 19 #Wikipedia pages for classicists who self-identify as women or non-binary! That's a significant leap forward in the gendered representation of classicists and open-access knowledge. Thread ...
25.03.2025 14:00 — 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0Love all of this. “We are engaging in the most humanistic act we can imagine- refusing the prompt.”
22.03.2025 15:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
considering using this account to showcase my dogs since I’ve had zero inspiration or motivation to post about anything more cerebral this year. Here’s Layla
06.03.2025 02:01 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Perhaps the most trenchant critique of the imbrication of art, property and racialization today can be found in scholar Eunsong Kim’s 2024 book The Politics of Collecting...in which she traces how the mid-19th-century consolidation of wealth+
www.frieze.com/article/gala...
Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.”
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We are officially coming off of X and focusing our efforts on fostering our archaeology community here!
Please share our account around so that we can find our people! We look forward to meeting you all!🏺
#ancientbluesky #archaeology #classicsbluesky
Check it out! New volume alert! 🚨📖 “Mothering and Archaeology: Past and Present Perspectives” brings together research on #motherhood and mothering in the past with women’s contemporary experiences of the relationships of mothering to #archaeology…
www.routledge.com/Mothering-an...
Close-up of a dark stone monument showing a detailed engraving of a scorpion from above. The scorpion faces to the right. The main body has lines on it to show sections of the carapace, and 5 legs coming out of each side. The tail is thick. Two pincers protrude from its head.
When my dad was little in Saudi, his mother noticed a scorpion crawl up his coat sleeve.
She got him to shuffle the coat off the way toddlers do, and in one swift movement, swept it into the air in a wide arc and smashed it to the ground.
Thread on scorpions and motherhood in ancient Mesopotamia.
🏺 Archaeological #ASMR
24.01.2025 23:01 — 👍 48 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0
The Peopling the Past podcast logo with the additional title "Season 4: Cultural heritage and legacies of colonialism"
This season, we will be turning our focus to cultural heritage and the dangers threatening it today, the ethics of museums and collecting practices, and the legacies of colonialism in the study of antiquity. We are so excited to share this with you all! peoplingthepast.com/2025/01/14/p... /end
14.01.2025 15:51 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Enjoying this whole museum-off: nerdy, affectionate yet brutal heritage slam.
If only the Ulu Burun & Akrotiri were on bluesky to join the fray...
