@gevemac.bsky.social
Archaeology, history, Sasanians, Carthaginians and some of the bits in between https://www.evemacdonald.net
Shoes, shoes, shoes — a fine pair of flats I’d say
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I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...
10.10.2025 13:16 — 👍 282 🔁 123 💬 7 📌 28Absolutely true — teachers are so important, creating futures, opening up views on the world
05.10.2025 16:37 — 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🙏🏼🙏🏼🐘🐘 thank you
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Thanks to @drmaimusie.bsky.social for doing such an excellent job hosting our chat about #carthage
03.10.2025 07:05 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Agreed — so good to see this, I’ve always wanted to know more
25.09.2025 11:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Excited for this and hope to see you there too! #carthage
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Waterstones Gower Street event
@drmaimusie.bsky.social and me talking about #Carthage on Oct 2nd. Join us!
20.09.2025 15:59 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Oooh
19.09.2025 16:00 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Agreed!
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A display of numerous stone arrowheads, neatly arranged in rows on a flat surface, showing a variety of triangular shapes and sizes with notched bases. Their shape resembles a Star Trek combadge.
The definitive evidence of Captain Janeway's extensive temporal interference 😉
Happy Star Trek Day! 🖖
Neolithic arrowheads on display at Archäologische Staatssammlung München
📷 me
#StarTrekDay #Archaeology 🏺
"Not only history reclaimed, this is #history at its best!"
Today's book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @gevemac.bsky.social!
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Happy Friday Folks!The sun ☀️ is finally shining and I’m super excited to be interviewing @gevemac.bsky.social on her latest book 📕’Carthage: A New History of an Ancient Empire’! A topic close to my heart 💜- reclaiming and re-centring African history.
Book here: www.waterstones.com/events/carth...
Upcoming #Carthage book events:
Sept. 5th @londonpodfest live with @ancientstristan (tickets shop.kingsplace.co.uk/31650/31654)
Sept. 10th @nomad_books 781 Fulham Road, London 6.30-8.30pm
Oct 2nd in conversation @maimusie at @waterstones Gower St at 6.30pm
(www.waterstones.com/events/searc...)
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Nothing like a little time in #PEI to restore 🇨🇦🌊
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Coming up on 5 September!
I’ll be at @LondonPodFest at King's Place, 7pm!
talking all things ancient CARTHAGE, with History Hit: The Ancients, Tristan Hughes
Really hope to see you there!
Get tickets 👉 kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/words…
A woman wearing cream and yellow garments holds a silver ladle aloft. Behind her couches of women seasoned a wooden table look on or play flutes. In the background two slaves pull back the curtain to gaze at the merriment
Buon #Ferragosto!
Fresco from #Pompeii (possibly from Fullonica of Sestius Venustus) and a unique example of a group of just women celebrating in what looks to be a rather wonderfully rowdy dining scene with upturned glassware, music being played and a woman holding aloft a ladle.
Yes, in Archaeometry and Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry. This was done by microbiologist Chris Allen at Queen’s Belfast, the microbial dna found was horses - in large numbers - but don’t think they found any elephants — sadly
www.qub.ac.uk/sites/Hannib...
Delighted to find that Dr Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social has a new book out on Carthage which uses the latest archaeological research. Her 2015 book Hannibal A Hellenistic Life is still the best biography of Hannibal for me because it placed him in a wider context than the military exploits.
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Why should we care about #archaeology, #monuments, traditions, art, and architecture when survival itself is threatened? Read Morag M. Kersel's blog for the SAA's @saa-aap.bsky.social: ▶️ cup.org/46Ryg9X
#culturalheritage
#culturalproperty
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13.08.2025 21:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I was told the bishop used to be an elephant 🐘 in the original game brought from India to the Persian court of the Sasanian king of kings, Khosrow I
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New episode — a dive in life in ancient #Carthage
open.spotify.com/episode/3nbl...
Since Messrs #Netenyahu & #Putin have both drawn from me Carthaginian peace analogies—& the prophetic warning of Bertold Brecht—it is fitting & humbling to commend this outstanding new history of Carthage from @gevemac.bsky.social—who 10yrs ago reframed the way we see Hannibal
09.08.2025 08:14 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0The literal truth of this is painful :(
07.08.2025 20:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0While back here in Lunenburg county, Nova Scotia 🇨🇦 for summer I always take a moment to drop into the Laurie Swim gallery where this amazing quilt artist creates beautiful landscapes — stunning
07.08.2025 17:26 — 👍 20 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Love him ❤️
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