Lucas McMahon

Academic presentation in a modern conference room showing a digital 3D reconstruction of an ancient Egyptian temple (Temple of Isis at Philae) on a large wall-mounted screen. The aerial view shows pink-toned stone temple structures beside the Nile River at sunset. Attendees sit around wooden tables watching the presentation, with a presenter standing at the right side of the room gesturing toward the screen.

Fascinating talk yesterday at UOttawa Dept. of Classics & Religious Studies / Conférence fascinante hier : Prof. Nick Hedley (SFU) on digital humanities research in Egypt / recherche en humanités numériques en Égypte. #ottawa #DigitalHumanities #AncientEgypt #EgypteAncienne #AncientBluesky

Book cover plan, now complete with the blurb on the back! 📕

This will come as a surprise to approximately no one, but Grokipedia's source for this is *me* and my article totally does not say that.

Sign the Petition Save Greek and Latin at the University of Ottawa!

In 2023, I was a Visiting Fellow at @antrelclaottawa.bsky.social. Got to experience the department as a world class center for our discipline (especially Late Antiquity). University management now wants to axe their honours programme.

Please consider signing and sharing this petition for support:

I'm curious about where the bigotry and anger on the internet starts and where it ends. As a Canadian in the UK, every time I walk into a grocery store I am consistently shocked by the rack of newspapers where half of them have "evil foreigners!" as the cover story, every. single. day.

A Physician on the Nile Flora, fauna, and famine in thirteenth-century Egypt A Physician on the Nile begins as a description of everyday life in Egypt at the turn of the seventh/thi...

I don't want to get your hopes up, but the rest of it is just as good.

www.libraryofarabicliterature.org/books/978147...

Back in the late twelfth century Al-Baghdadi saw your post about how ancient aliens built the pyramids and is embarrassed for you.

Shocking news from uOttawa: Greek & Roman Studies closed to new students without consultation. Teaching of ancient languages to end. Open letter coming soon - follow for how you can help. #DefendClassicsUOttawa #Ottawa #AncientHistory #SaveHigherEd #HigherEdCuts #AncientGreek #Latin

I wrote something. Also made some maps for it.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I dunno what you think, internet, but this 19th c. printer in Naples had a very pleasing Greek typeface.

Book launch TOMORROW at @bplmaps.bsky.social!!! 🏠

Always good to hear some positive-ish things about a weird computational spatial analysis paper one wrote for a volume on Nikephoros II.

deremilitari.org/2025/10/geor...

Not a thing, I'm afraid, but I don't really have anything to do with manuscripts.

Just some reckless adventurism in the hemisphere... would sleep a lot better if we had a couple of SSBNs out there.

Anything with annona in the title definitely piques my interest.

Who ever said that nothing is made in America anymore? The wackadoodle industry is going strong, cranking out new models ever other day, it seems.

"... Canada’s billionaires are siphoning off for themselves an ever-larger share of the nation’s wealth, at the expense of the rest of us."

Exciting to see a new @lindamcquaig.bsky.social book on the horizon!

www.dundurn.com/books_/t2211...

Just a quick reminder that we are still eagerly awaiting your paper proposals for the next IMC! ⏰🎓👇 @imc-leeds.bsky.social

An excellent thing to read while I procrastinate actually reading the Byzantine land surveying manuals that I promised I would read.

It's on safe ground when the basic line is "evil gonna' evil".

That those conspiracy theories might be right.

You see, this is why I despise humanity.

The History of Caucasian Albanians: By Movses Dasxuranci : Movses Dasxuranci : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive The History of Movses Dasxurantsi.

Only a thousand years late! archive.org/details/Bind...

Plus the enshittification curve, so in two years the price will double, the AI's quality will drop, and you'll have to watch an ad for cat food every second essay.

YouTube video by Movieclips Rat Race (8/9) Movie CLIP - Hitler's Car (2001) HD

I can never just not associate the car in Ottawa with the stupid movie. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dsg...

This cover has been floating around on this book for years, and I've always wondered if it's on the actual book, but it's just too expensive for a curiosity purchase.

Burg on the Berg in Bergland

#imc2026

Very excited to spread the news that @ryan1992reading.bsky.social and I are organising a session for the Leeds IMC next year on political culture in the High Middle Ages! Please drop us a message if interested and share widely.

It's tough stuff - I'm writing a history of state control of information in Byzantium, and I keep finding that a lot of the late antique and after fundamentals of the sort you covered in 'Mosaics' just aren't understood very well at this point.