Amanda Pavlick

congratulations!!!

all. the. time.

Prices are brutal these days, especially at the Garden, no one would argue otherwise!

You could have and you didn’t!?!?

You made Wedgewood sad. That last goal is yours!

I'm so sorry.

I'm not, really. But I am. But also

Elon Musk donates $1 million for archaeological sites in Rome Through the Musk Foundation, the foundation established in 2021 to support international humanitarian and scientific projects, Elon Musk, has chosen to fund a program dedicated to Rome's archaeologica...

I am once again telling you that taking money from Musk makes you complicit in his instrumentalization of cultural heritage to support his beliefs. Taking funding from amoral entities is, in my opinion, not ethical and it is in fact harmful. www.finestresullarte.info/en/news/elon...

But it's *so* fascinating!

(I am not helping...)

Just absolutely gutting, watching Marchy react to his welcome back to the Garden.

I miss him more than most people I've actually met.

The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies logo

Deciphering the Herculaneum papyri (An SPHS Lecture)

www.theclassicslibrary.com/deciphering-...

a snake with legs in the middle of the body, from the Papyrus of Ani, a Book of the Dead from the 13th century BC.

An egyptian hieroglyph: a bowl with legs and feet, which means 'to bring'.

A red, burnished bowl with two human feet from the Egyptian predynastic period.

I'm thoroughly enjoying teaching Ancient Egypt for the first time in something like 13 years, and I won't lie - a huge part of that enjoyment is finding all of the things they put legs and feet on

Oh that is absolute a-grade marketing, if intentional!

I have yeeted
the LMS
my uni
has paid for
and which
you were probably
thinking
helps you teach
Forgive me
it was surveillant
so mid
and so broke

Now if only we could get students to do reading in these again instead of requiring/incentivizing annotations on an LMS....

'People made it out of the cities alive': Tracing the survivors of Pompeii and Herculaneum, 2,000 years after Vesuvius erupted Several lines of evidence, from chiseled inscriptions to missing horses, suggest that thousands of people survived the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in A.D. 79.

Historian Steve Tuck has a new book out today. Read an excerpt from “Escape from Pompeii” at this link at Live Science! 🏺🧪

Huge congratulations, Curtis!!

(Also, what a promo code for YUP to have chosen...!!)

Book cover showing classical column with title and author's name above it

My book "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" is now available for pre-order. Use promo code WIN26 to get 30% off. Coming January 6th 2026! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Ooh ooh is this a time when we go to one web service to talk about another web service being down?

My archaeological field training means I can dig a mean trench. I wield a pickaxe with confidence and, dare I say it, aplomb.

I am also trained to say where the bodies are buried but I am willing to learn new skills for the right reasons.

I also make cocktails.

I feel like the corner of this image should have Patsy just standing by, labeled "academic who just wants to talk about citation formats"

Sitting in the window of a cafe and I just saw a woman walk by with a shirt that read "I am not responsible for what my face does when you talk" and I am so here for that energy

Don’t jinx it, Vicky!!!

Amazing dinner at Luciano with @akpavlick.bsky.social tonight! Carbonara by a Michelin star chef in Rome just hits different 🤌🏻

A dish of rice-sized pasta in a saffron-colored sauce. Alt text struggles to explain how delicious it was!

Well now I have to share my risoli, don’t I?

Amazing to see you, especially in such a wonderful place. Let’s do it again some year!!

A rock-cut shrine-shaped tomb in brown volcanic tufo, with one badly eroded but standing column and burial chamber with a long, deep entrance below.

Genuinely astonished at the Etruscan necropoleis I’ve been able to explore in northern Lazio the past few days - their scale, their extent - unbelievable. Pictures here is the Tomba Pola, Sovana, 3rd c. BC.

Literally begging you to post about Just Some Stuff. We will see the news I absolutely promise. Twenty people will repost the same exact thing about the news. Only you can post about a turtle you saw

Same. Kind of wish I could go home to him each night

Leaving them behind is the hardest part!! I'm told mine is missing me something fierce, and the guilt is killing me

An excerpt from a signboard. The critical feature is an illustration showing two Neolithic farmers, which is clearly a take-off of American Gothic by Grant Wood.

Whoever was responsible for designing the Historic Scotland information board at Wideford Hill Cairn deserves a medal for it.

Bea Arthur, US Marine | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans Bernice Frankel's Official Military Personnel File reveals a Golden Girl's WWII service history.

For those interested in Bea Arthur: www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles...

Today's SCS Blog post on DEI in the Roman army by @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social is a tour de force, and made all the stronger by being absolutely direct in its modern parallels and message. Impressive and powerful stuff.

(Also, the Bea Arthur cameo is fantastic - I'm off to learn more!)