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Dr Marina Escolano-Poveda 🌊🪔
@hypatiaheuresis.bsky.social
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👩🏻‍🏫 Senior Lecturer in Classics/AncHist & Egyptology, University of Liverpool
📚 PhD Egyptology, Johns Hopkins University
🏛️ Fellowships: Fulbright, FAvH, FRHistS, FHEA, HRF Rylands Library
📜🔍 Graeco-Roman Egypt, Papyrology, Ancient Science
💙 Books, Astrolabes
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Dr Marina Escolano-Poveda 🌊🪔 @hypatiaheuresis.bsky.social · Nov 10
Hello, new followers! 📜🔍

I am an Egyptologist and Papyrologist at Liverpool who spends her time deciphering papyri, teaching ancient languages, travelling, and collecting books and astrolabes.

Find out more:

👩🏻‍🏫: www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/marin...

📖: liverpool.academia.edu/MarinaEscola...
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We love talking to @hypatiaheuresis.bsky.social! So much so that we have another convo with her dropping in December:)
November 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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In this season's attempt to highlight films that might have fallen under the radar, the Movies We Dig Crew revisits Agora along with special guest, Dr. Marina Escolano-Poveda @hypatiaheuresis.bsky.social.

Listen now at shows.acast.com/movies-we-di....
November 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Recordando la ilustración que le hice a la irrepetible @hypatiaheuresis.bsky.social
Que tuvo a bien contar conmigo para actualizar su antiguo avatar. Fue un gran honor retratar a una Egiptóloga de su trayectoria y reconocimiento 🩵.
#illustratorlife
September 23, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Calla, que no os he puesto el enlace del Multiverso: ¿Y si Cleopatra hubiera sido supersticiosa? open.spotify.com/episode/7x4f...
Con @mdelvado.bsky.social y @hypatiaheuresis.bsky.social En @laventanacadenaser.bsky.social.
Multiverso | ¿Y si Cleopatra hubiera sido supersticiosa?
La Ventana · Episode
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August 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Egypt Unearths Its ‘New Rosetta Stone’
Complete Canopus Decree Stela Discovered in Sharqiya by Egyptian Archaeologists. More details shorturl.at/W5SEJ @flintdibble.bsky.social @ticiaverveer.bsky.social @debborahdonnelly.bsky.social @egypto-lou-gist.bsky.social @hypatiaheuresis.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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The Mayor of Thebes Revealed: Identity of Kampp 23 Tomb Owner Uncovered in El-Asasif. For Details shorturl.at/buVGx #Egypt #Egyptology #Archaeology #Luxor #Asasif #LuxorTimes @hypatiaheuresis.bsky.social @egypto-lou-gist.bsky.social @egyptologylessons.bsky.social @ausegyptology.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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‼️ NEW LECTURE!

🪐 “Heavenly Bodies: Astrological Physiognomies in Egypt and Qumran”, Marina Escolano-Poveda (Liverpool) and Kim Ryholt (Copenhagen)

📅 Wednesday, 21 May 2025
🕒 18:00 - 20:00 c.t.
📍 Institute for the History of Knowledge, Room 010, Arnimallee 10, 14195 Berlin
May 19, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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This funerary cone belonged to a royal scribe called Ramose, who lived during the reign of Taharqa (25th Dynasty). The name of the king appears in a cartouche in the fourth column, followed by that of Ramose. Both are identified as mAa-xrw “justified”, indicating that they were deceased. (1/2)
May 15, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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¡UN AÑO MÁS, FELIZ DÍA DE STAR WARS! 😄

Un año más, es 4 de mayo, el día de Star Wars (“May the 4th be with you”), así que si queréis decir “que la fuerza os acompañe” en egipcio a vuestros amigos, aquí tenéis cómo 😉

#StarWars #maythe4th
May 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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@hypatiaheuresis.bsky.social Hey look your book showed up on Justin Sledge’s latest video about Petosiris!
April 14, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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A few days ago, I found a #manicule on the margin of my copy of Giambattista della Porta’s De Furtivis Literarum Notis (1563), and I asked for bibliography that would allow me to learn more about manicule typologies. Several people recommended Sherman’s Used Books. Thanks a lot! 📚

#bibliophile
March 31, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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No one:
Me: What if I used my @effinbirds.com postcards like Oracle cards
Cards: lol no
March 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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free access to the Vatican Library’s digitized collections, including the illuminated Vergilius Vaticanus: digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat...

Pictured below, folium XIIr, containing Aeneid 1.248ff.
March 27, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Huge congratulations, Dr Louise O’Brien!!! 🎓🎓🎓
egypto-lou-gist.bsky.social Dr Louise O'Brien @egypto-lou-gist.bsky.social · Mar 26
Yesterday I successfully defended my PhD thesis with minor corrections! My research has evolved so much over the past 4 years and I'm so grateful to my examiners for taking the time to read it and engage with it. And thank you of course to my wonderful supervisor @hypatiaheuresis.bsky.social !
A white woman with dark hair, standing in an office, wearing a grey jumper, white shirt, and black trousers, attempts (key word) to open a bottle of champagne.
March 26, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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📢¡NOVEDAD EN PREVENTA!📢
Ya tenéis disponible, en preventa en nuestra web, un volumen al que le hemos puesto todo nuestro cariño y afecto.
Todos los beneficios obtenidos de la venta de este libro irán destinados íntegramente a la Fundació Horta Sud.
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March 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Jeffrey Goldberg: “March 15, 2025: …”
Far Side cartoon scientist down a hole studying gophers: “March 5, 1984: after several months, I now feel that these strange little rodents have finally accepted me as one of their own.”
March 25, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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The Nine Muses: may they inspire us in these troubled times.

British Library Royal MS 6 E IX; Convenevole da Prato, Carmina regia; c1335 CE; Italy (Tuscany); f.29v-30v
March 20, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Fellow authors! The @societyofauthors.bsky.social has issued a statement about Meta’s theft of copyrighted books to train its AI. societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...
The LibGen data set – what authors can do – The Society of AuthorsXFacebookInstagramVimeoApple PodcastsSearchShopping CartSearchToggle MenuToggle Menu CloseScroll to topScroll to topToggle Menu CloseS...
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March 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Next week at @livancworlds.bsky.social!!!

#egyptology #academia #liverpoolegyptology
March 21, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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☞ I have a special thing for manicules. What was my surprise yesterday, as I was exploring my new book, when I found this little manicule! I’m in love!

By the way, are there any typological studies of manicules that could allow me to date it?

#bibliophile #manicules
March 20, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Today, in Marina’s cabinet of curiosities and library, two new additions: a first edition (1563) of Giambattista della Porta’s ‘De furtivis literarum notis’, an early modern treatise on cryptography complete with three working volvelles and many diagrams; and a wax cylinder for a phonograph.
March 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Ozymandias
Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: ‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
March 18, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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New medieval manuscript tapestry blanket! 📖

#bibliophile #bookishdecor
March 16, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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@livancworlds.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social Liverpool Classics and Archaeology continue to rank within the top 100 in the 2025 QS World University Rankings. That’s top 100 of 1,747 Universities across the globe. V proud of this! www.topuniversities.com/subject-rank...
QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025
QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025
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March 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Beautiful tribute to Prof. Ken Kitchen (1932–2025), Professor Emeritus of Egyptology at @livancworlds.bsky.social.

news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/03/06/o...
Obituary: Kenneth Kitchen, Professor Emeritus of Egyptology - University of Liverpool News
Obituary: Kenneth Kitchen, Professor Emeritus of Egyptology
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March 7, 2025 at 12:40 PM