“White-out” has been necessary for scribes for a long time, it seems. A page from the Book of the Dead penned by royal scribe, Ramose (1290-1278BCE) had a huntite and calcite mix to correct illustrations, say Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum.
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Michael Landon probably deserves a good bit of that credit/blame too. I’d wager more people get there romanticized ideas from half-remembering the show rather than having read the books.
“Trans children are perfect.”
Submission deadline is tonight -- don't forget to get your applications in!
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Toronto! I'm coming to visit The Power Plant Gallery this Saturday afternoon to talk about how my recent books and life experiences connect with two current exhibits by artists Jeneen Frei Njootli and Lucy Raven. It's free and open to everyone! www.thepowerplant.org/whats-on/cal...
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Painting of two cloak wearing men with horses approaching a timber gate, with observation tower above, being opened by two shield carrying men whilst two men, a boy and a dog watch from the ramparts above
The late 5th c AD SW gate of Cadbury Castle hillfort #Somerset
Based on Leslie Alcock's 1968 excavation
Splendidly recreated with elevated platform in a painting © Peter Dennis for *British Forts in the Age of Arthur* by Angus Konstam @ospreypublishing.bsky.social 2008 🤩
#HillfortsWednesday
call me a spondee by cause Ich am stressed stressed
Oh dear, the discourse seems to have broken its #HATM confinement @herberthistory.bsky.social
Hi friends. As I previously noted, the U. of Iowa is planning to get rid of African American studies; Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, & the Classical Languages major—along with others. If you wish, please sign the classics petition: www.change.org/p/keep-the-c.... I will add more as I find out.
Yet thou didst kill my children.
A four-panel collage pairs characters from The Golden Girls with names of Greek goddesses. The top left shows Dorothy labeled “Athena.” The top right shows Rose labeled “Demeter.” The bottom left shows Blanche in a red dress labeled “Aphrodite.” The bottom right shows Sophia labeled “Hecate.” Each name appears in large colored text over the corresponding character’s image.
Here's 15 minutes of an extraordinary new opera-in-progress based on (my version of) the Odyssey, composed by Tom Smail, libretto by Isabella Bywater - performed and discussed (with Alicia Stallings) at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. www.ascsa.edu.gr/events/detai...
If you're researching queer history in England, farm records might be one of the last places you'd check.
Yet for #LGBTQHistoryMonth, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares how he's tracing queer histories within our farm archives, and gives tips for future research.
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I feel like @themerl.bsky.social has some experience with this same problem 🤔
Hey skystorians and Native studies 👋
American Philosophical Society has an a fantastic grant funding program through the Phillips Fund for Native American research. This fund has supported me several times for Alaska oral history research
I’m helping to get the word out to apply by March 2! 🗃️
You know, I think I need to lean into my 'brand' - or at least the brand the statue pfp crowd thinks I have.
So, This week on the blog! Ancient Mercenaries were multicultural and woke!
(They were multicultural, but perhaps not woke).
acoup.blog/2026/02/20/c...
A split screen: on the left is a crested Roman helmet in the foreground with a tunic of scale armour (lorica squamata) in the background. On the right is a close up of the tunic and the scales are practically indistinguishable from the scales of a pangolin (but there again we're on our third coffee).
We're marking World Pangolin Day by remembering that Roman soldiers would routinely dress as pangolins before going into battle.
At Getty, art is for all. Including sea lions. 🌊
In honor of #WorldAquariumDay, Aquarium of the Pacific 🐋's Parker shares his thoughts on some of the most popular artwork in Getty's collections.
The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! @curtisdozier.bsky.social discusses the ways that Classics is instrumentalized. Then, the role of Blackness in medieval imagery, a new Edmonia Lewis retrospective, repatriating the Benin Bronzes, new ancient world journals via @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more.
Here’s a lovely 4K video clip from this week’s episode of You’re Dead To Me on the BBC — here I am chatting about the epic of Gilgamesh with comedian @marjoleinrobertson.bsky.social and expert Assyriologist @moudhy.bsky.social. Listen to the full podcast on BBC SOUNDS
This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal
I got to do an interview about my book which focused on the nomadic and pastoralist cultures I wrote about! Give it a listen below.
I'm told that one or two spaces have just become available on the ICS Summer School in 3D Imaging and Modelling for Cultural Heritage: ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
If you're interested in learning photogrammetry, RTI, 3D design, 3D printing, paradata and heritage ethics, join us!
There is a fab new book out about the 2022 polychromy exhibition at the Met. It underscores 38 scholars who are the 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 experts in polychromy today. Coming out of polychromy retirement to review _Chroma: Sculpture in Color from Antiquity to Today_ for @hyperallergic.com (edited by Natalie Haddad).
I don’t know that I could truly claim the title if Trekkie (never been to a con or anything) but my SFF geekdom is longstanding.
