One of the conspirators who helped Gavrilo Princip shoot Archduke Franz Ferdinand survived to see the breakup of Yugoslavia. He could conceivably have watched the Neighbours episode where Scott and Charlene got married
08.10.2025 05:17 β π 210 π 68 π¬ 11 π 9
One in 20 people will have a seizure in their lifetime and over 50 million people have epilepsy worldwide. Over 85% of people with epilepsy live in low- and ...
20th Anniversary Oxford Martin School Impact Story: Professor Arjune Sen, Global Epilepsy Programme
20 Years of Impact: Breaking barriers to epilepsy diagnosis.
For 50 million people with epilepsy, access to care can transform lives.
Our researchers are rethinking diagnosis through affordable tools and training in low-resource settings.
Watch here:
07.10.2025 09:02 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
It's wonderful to see @thebrooking.bsky.social launch its social media content across platforms. If you love historic buildings and architecture please follow and spread the word!
01.10.2025 16:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Samira Ahmed, Twentieth Century woman
The broadcaster and new president of the Twentieth Century Society talks to Arjun Sajip about conserving the built environment and making people feel it matters
The broadcaster Samira Ahmed was recently appointed president of the Twentieth Century Society. She talks to Apollo about conserving the built environment and making people feel that it matters
26.09.2025 13:01 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
A 20 (twenty) horse chariot - presumably emblematic of lots of success-bringing horsepower - on an electrotype replica of a Roman gem @carcoxford.bsky.social (original in Paris @labnf.bsky.social)
19.09.2025 10:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
journal cover
New issue of Journal of Roman Archaeology Vol. 28, No. 1 (2025) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org @dominik-hagmann.bsky.social @lsnasrallah.bsky.social
16.09.2025 17:13 β π 21 π 8 π¬ 0 π 0
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16.09.2025 15:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
If you are not attracted to Gandharan sculptures ('ex Private Collection, Japan, before 1990') in Christie's current Asian art online auction, you could bid for a replica Bimaran Casket! onlineonly.christies.com/s/indian-him...
16.09.2025 15:11 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Nobody who voted to confirm RFK is fit to hold public office
04.09.2025 16:12 β π 15958 π 3033 π¬ 237 π 144
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
30.08.2025 07:33 β π 19 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0
A photograph of a weathered bronze statuette of an animal attacking a centaur with a man riding on his back
A curious sea-battered #Roman copper alloy statuette found on Sidmouth Beach #Devon in 1840
Featuring a man (Achilles?) riding on the back of a centaur (Chiron?) at the moment both are attacked by a wild animal
An enigmatic object now on display @rammuseum.bsky.social
π· May 2025
#FindsFriday
25.07.2025 05:38 β π 153 π 36 π¬ 2 π 1
I am actually a believer in the importance of branding, but it will be fascinating to see whether the reputational damage from the University of Warwickβs risible exercise leads to net harm. Itβs possible that it wonβt.
24.07.2025 20:01 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
This very fine book has its own care instructions on the cover.
22.07.2025 22:13 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
βGandhara Uncoveredβ - at Lahore Museum and online tomorrow 21 July
20.07.2025 13:38 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Spotted this extraordinary comparandum on the Twitter account of @persiaantigua.bsky.social
19.07.2025 20:02 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Full Professor, Greek History, Antiquity and Epigraphy, University of Vienna, Austria (Deadline September 17) - The Classical Association of Canada
www.cac-scec.ca/2025/07/vien...
09.07.2025 19:48 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
YouTube video by Michael A Le Poer Trench
Les MisΓ©rables 85th Academy Awards rehearsal
Annual re-post of the best rehearsal video of all time: youtu.be/PfZgOV4UHBU?.... Cameron Macintosh: 'Good.'
30.06.2025 22:41 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A rare opportunity for a permanent lectureship in German in our fabulous School! Please circulate to your networks. @ucfl-eca.bsky.social @ucflangs.bsky.social
26.06.2025 09:17 β π 17 π 21 π¬ 0 π 1
Beloit, WI revitalized its waterfront and chose this way to celebrate it: by bringing to life Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."
25.06.2025 13:04 β π 28686 π 4262 π¬ 648 π 419
Itβs a good thing Congress isnβt alive to see this
22.06.2025 00:47 β π 62569 π 13974 π¬ 810 π 566
tenture
DΓ©cor : poisson ; eau ; bandes
Fragment of Roman woollen fish tapestry from Antinoopolis #LouvreCollections collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...
19.06.2025 22:31 β π 6 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Molecular virologist, sewage sage and wastewater wizard.
Professor at University of Missouri, School of Medicine
Archaeologist | Director of Programs, Antiquities Coalition | Researcher of antiquities trafficking + cultural heritage protection | Personal account
Postdoc at ArchaeoScience Platform (ASp) of the Research Institute of the University of Bucharest (ICUB)
Interested in stable isotopes, ZooMS, ancient DNA...
Novelist & podcast makerο½Wrote River of Ink (2016), All Our Broken Idols (2020), Fall of Civilizations (2024)ο½Creator of the Fall of Civilizations Podcast @fallofcivilizations.com
Archaeology Manager, British School at Rome @bsrome.bsky.social
Landscape Archaeologist
Co-director, faleriinoviproject.org
Honorary Secretary @archprospection.bsky.social
FSA FRHistS
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5920-3377
Food Historian, Cook, Researcher, Writer. Currently sitting in the ancient world c. 3000 BCE - 476 CE. Dabbles in Neolithic, Chalcolithic, EBA, and Medieval.
insta @meganfoodhistorian
art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture #nelbetancur
Exeter's museum & art gallery, home to Gerald the giraffe. Entry is free. RAMM is an Exeter City Council service π¦πΊπ¦π¦΄πΌοΈ
MA Museum Studies student. Swiftie and Houseplant Lover. Museum enthusiast.
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Linkedin: https://shorturl.at/pua5D
News from the Classical, Ancient Near Eastern & Egyptian Studies department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
Former Mui Wo Pirate & Water Buffalo Wrangler. Music Head. History Buff. Bookworm. Wino. Wannabe Stoic. ι¦ζΈ―δΊΊε ζ²Ή. COYS!
Separating the sheep from the swans.
Host of the podcast Haptic & Hue, and longtime hand weaver. If you canβt hear the voices of the past how can you understand the future?
Archaeologist researching cultural heritage crime, looting, trafficking, il/licit markets, museum ethics and law | 1st Gen PhD Candidate at @uclarchaeology.bsky.social | she/her
Economics writer. Author.
Expect history, economics, finance and other stuff.
Wrote Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through.
Blood and Treasure, on the economics of war, out now.
Anthropologist with interests in cultural evolution, phylogenetics, classical methods, weaving. Interface of archaeology and ethnography. Author of "Stone and Fiber: Daily life in the Baliem valley, Papua".
"A Laid-Back Country Picker with a Laid-Back Country Mind"
McLeod Chair of Classics, Dalhousie University
UC Davis Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies
Ancient Semitic languages and religions, Jewish Studies, Liberation Philology.
Music Making. Portstewart via Belfast, Hull, Gateshead & North Shields. Electronic Music/Archiving/The Sea. www.coneyislandsound.com
or for more https://linktr.ee/coneyislandsound
Husband, and Dad to two wee girls. Live in the Kingdom of Fife π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ Munro bagger β°οΈπͺEmotionally damaged supporting Leeds United. ππ€π