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I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
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My favourite part of this ancient Assyrian letter to an ancient Assyrian goldsmith, is the last bit where the writer basically declares that the “house where they purify silver” absolutely does not pass the vibe check.
“They are drunk and silver is stolen”
“They are drunk and silver is stolen”
November 21, 2025 at 9:16 AM
My favourite part of this ancient Assyrian letter to an ancient Assyrian goldsmith, is the last bit where the writer basically declares that the “house where they purify silver” absolutely does not pass the vibe check.
“They are drunk and silver is stolen”
“They are drunk and silver is stolen”
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Also, we had the terrific Reid Byers come up and talk to us yesterday about his imaginary books as a form of reading what you can't actually read. Maine is really a very good place for to be doing bookish things www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Best Fake Books—Made Real
At the Grolier Club, in midtown, a collection of imaginary volumes—the play within “Hamlet,” Hemingway’s lost first novel—are bound, scuffed, and shelved.
www.newyorker.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Also, we had the terrific Reid Byers come up and talk to us yesterday about his imaginary books as a form of reading what you can't actually read. Maine is really a very good place for to be doing bookish things www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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My #SuperlativeCannedGoo tweet from the old place is making rounds again. Support co-op cranberry growers!
November 17, 2025 at 1:52 AM
My #SuperlativeCannedGoo tweet from the old place is making rounds again. Support co-op cranberry growers!
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At 0300 our patrol made hard contact with the historians
November 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
At 0300 our patrol made hard contact with the historians
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Our Music of Midwinter tour starts next week! Find tix and info on all shows at WindborneSingers.com/concerts
Will we see you there?
Will we see you there?
November 7, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Our Music of Midwinter tour starts next week! Find tix and info on all shows at WindborneSingers.com/concerts
Will we see you there?
Will we see you there?
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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
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This is Nabia Abbott. She was a groundbreaking scholar of Arabic manuscripts, the first woman professor at UChicago's Oriental Institute, and once sent me on a wild goose chase spanning 3 continents. Someday I'll finish my article about her, but until then, see:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/15809...
threadreaderapp.com/thread/15809...
October 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This is Nabia Abbott. She was a groundbreaking scholar of Arabic manuscripts, the first woman professor at UChicago's Oriental Institute, and once sent me on a wild goose chase spanning 3 continents. Someday I'll finish my article about her, but until then, see:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/15809...
threadreaderapp.com/thread/15809...
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Autumnal read: Rhyne King's House of the Satrap.
Fascinating dive into the basic building block of the Achaemenid empire, the satraps house, and argues that the imperial system should be viewed as a set of hierarchically structured overlapping houses: the king, his satraps and their subordinates.
Fascinating dive into the basic building block of the Achaemenid empire, the satraps house, and argues that the imperial system should be viewed as a set of hierarchically structured overlapping houses: the king, his satraps and their subordinates.
October 25, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Autumnal read: Rhyne King's House of the Satrap.
Fascinating dive into the basic building block of the Achaemenid empire, the satraps house, and argues that the imperial system should be viewed as a set of hierarchically structured overlapping houses: the king, his satraps and their subordinates.
Fascinating dive into the basic building block of the Achaemenid empire, the satraps house, and argues that the imperial system should be viewed as a set of hierarchically structured overlapping houses: the king, his satraps and their subordinates.
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Christopher Lee with his cat, Renfield.
October 21, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Christopher Lee with his cat, Renfield.
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about three years ago a group of almost 100 book collectors started an absurd project: to publish a handmade book, with every decision made democratically. somehow it actually worked?
it is *very* on brand that picked an ancient egyptian travelogue poem as the text
it is *very* on brand that picked an ancient egyptian travelogue poem as the text
August 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
about three years ago a group of almost 100 book collectors started an absurd project: to publish a handmade book, with every decision made democratically. somehow it actually worked?
it is *very* on brand that picked an ancient egyptian travelogue poem as the text
it is *very* on brand that picked an ancient egyptian travelogue poem as the text
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In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:
October 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:
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This Thursday, online public lecture Manchester Egyptology Seminar Series - Dr Kathleen Sheppard @k8shep.bsky.social Prof. of History at Missouri University of Science & Technology: ‘“How Winning a Woman of Study Can Be” in Early American Egyptology’
Oct 2nd, 5pm UK: zoom.us/j/91521871294
Oct 2nd, 5pm UK: zoom.us/j/91521871294
September 30, 2025 at 10:11 PM
This Thursday, online public lecture Manchester Egyptology Seminar Series - Dr Kathleen Sheppard @k8shep.bsky.social Prof. of History at Missouri University of Science & Technology: ‘“How Winning a Woman of Study Can Be” in Early American Egyptology’
Oct 2nd, 5pm UK: zoom.us/j/91521871294
Oct 2nd, 5pm UK: zoom.us/j/91521871294
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Anyone interested in medieval fakes should plan a trip to Paris. The Musée Cluny has a show from 7 Oct. to 11 Jan.,
www.musee-moyenage.fr/activites/pr...
and the Archives nationales has one from 15 Oct. to 2 Feb.:
www.musee-moyenage.fr/activites/pr...
and the Archives nationales has one from 15 Oct. to 2 Feb.:
September 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Anyone interested in medieval fakes should plan a trip to Paris. The Musée Cluny has a show from 7 Oct. to 11 Jan.,
www.musee-moyenage.fr/activites/pr...
and the Archives nationales has one from 15 Oct. to 2 Feb.:
www.musee-moyenage.fr/activites/pr...
and the Archives nationales has one from 15 Oct. to 2 Feb.:
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By which I mean that Knut Eriksson, Erik Knutsson and Erik Eriksson were fighting Sverker the Elder, Karl Sverkersson and Sverker the Younger (aka Sverker Karlsson).
because why come up with new names when the names you've got can take at least another few generations of wear and tear.
because why come up with new names when the names you've got can take at least another few generations of wear and tear.
September 19, 2025 at 8:49 PM
By which I mean that Knut Eriksson, Erik Knutsson and Erik Eriksson were fighting Sverker the Elder, Karl Sverkersson and Sverker the Younger (aka Sverker Karlsson).
because why come up with new names when the names you've got can take at least another few generations of wear and tear.
because why come up with new names when the names you've got can take at least another few generations of wear and tear.
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Siegfried’s Long Call from Twilight of the Garage (Gäragerdämmerung)
July 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Siegfried’s Long Call from Twilight of the Garage (Gäragerdämmerung)
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Prepping a lecture on the difference between looting and archeology and have just made this cursed image
September 13, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Prepping a lecture on the difference between looting and archeology and have just made this cursed image
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Live footage of historians these days
a man is playing a game of frog dog at a carnival
Alt: a man playing Whac-A-Mole
media.tenor.com
September 6, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Live footage of historians these days
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[ancient egyptian standup comic] see guys from the upper kingdom, they observe funerary rites like THIS. but us guys from the lower kingdom, we observe funerary rites like THIS. See this guy knows what I’m talking about [pointing at man with the head of a bird]
September 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
[ancient egyptian standup comic] see guys from the upper kingdom, they observe funerary rites like THIS. but us guys from the lower kingdom, we observe funerary rites like THIS. See this guy knows what I’m talking about [pointing at man with the head of a bird]
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Telling my kids that this is just the god Nanna:
#doodle while watching the calves in the field
September 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Telling my kids that this is just the god Nanna:
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It was a huge pleasure to chat with the wonderful Arkady Martine @byzantienne.bsky.social for our latest Writing Worlds conversation about world building.
This time we talk about language as an element in world building and the development of imagined cultures.
🎧👉 www.pod.link/1812994751
This time we talk about language as an element in world building and the development of imagined cultures.
🎧👉 www.pod.link/1812994751
September 3, 2025 at 9:06 AM
It was a huge pleasure to chat with the wonderful Arkady Martine @byzantienne.bsky.social for our latest Writing Worlds conversation about world building.
This time we talk about language as an element in world building and the development of imagined cultures.
🎧👉 www.pod.link/1812994751
This time we talk about language as an element in world building and the development of imagined cultures.
🎧👉 www.pod.link/1812994751
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Further thought: Charles V's empire also the last gasp of Lotharingia. Not just Charles himself and his sisters and aunt, but many of his closest advisors were all from bits of what had been the Middle Kingdom. Chièvres (Netherlands), Gattinara (Piedmont), the Granvelles (Franche Comté).
September 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Further thought: Charles V's empire also the last gasp of Lotharingia. Not just Charles himself and his sisters and aunt, but many of his closest advisors were all from bits of what had been the Middle Kingdom. Chièvres (Netherlands), Gattinara (Piedmont), the Granvelles (Franche Comté).
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so my PERSONAL favourite way to fuck with Americans is to be like “this building is from 1520!” Or whatever and they’ll go “wow we don’t have anything that old!” And I’ll go “yes you do” and just stare at them
August 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
so my PERSONAL favourite way to fuck with Americans is to be like “this building is from 1520!” Or whatever and they’ll go “wow we don’t have anything that old!” And I’ll go “yes you do” and just stare at them
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I'm torn about this, as someone who learned cuneiform well at Not Chicago, but since my own program and many others have since been eviscerated, the alarm call is warranted.
Academia is necessary to the preservation of knowledge and we need to rebuild more durable distributed knowledge networks.
Academia is necessary to the preservation of knowledge and we need to rebuild more durable distributed knowledge networks.
There will be many casualties from UChicago ending ('pausing') PhD admissions in Humantities, but one which I am keenly aware of: this is close to a death sentence for teaching cuneiform in the United States (esp. Sumerian, Hittite, Elamite, Eblaite, Luwian) and it will affect the whole world.
“Chicago has long helped to keep alive tiny fields & esoteric areas of humanistic study... Without the univ’s support, & the continued training of grad students who can keep these bodies of kn going, entire spheres of human learning might eventually blink out.” www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
August 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I'm torn about this, as someone who learned cuneiform well at Not Chicago, but since my own program and many others have since been eviscerated, the alarm call is warranted.
Academia is necessary to the preservation of knowledge and we need to rebuild more durable distributed knowledge networks.
Academia is necessary to the preservation of knowledge and we need to rebuild more durable distributed knowledge networks.