Tom Elliott
@paregorios.bsky.social
Roman Historian and Human Digitalist. Works for NYU's https://isaw.nyu.edu, but lives near Huntsville, Alabama. Editor/PI of the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places (https://pleiades.stoa.org).
Primary social account: https://hcommons.social/@paregorios/
Primary social account: https://hcommons.social/@paregorios/
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I was wondering why Machine-Created Culture had only sold ca. 4 copies in its first year of release & it turns out it was only available in HB for $120 ($1/pg). The ebook’s $20, though. But if you are on a shoestring budget, message me here and I’ll hook you up. www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Reinha...
Machine-Created Culture: Essays on the Archaeology of Digital Things and Places | Berghahn Books
Independent Publishing since 1994
www.berghahnbooks.com
January 2, 2026 at 10:29 PM
I was wondering why Machine-Created Culture had only sold ca. 4 copies in its first year of release & it turns out it was only available in HB for $120 ($1/pg). The ebook’s $20, though. But if you are on a shoestring budget, message me here and I’ll hook you up. www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Reinha...
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So ... anyone know what's happening with the archaeology wiki blog? They seem to have been hijacked by a casino
December 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
So ... anyone know what's happening with the archaeology wiki blog? They seem to have been hijacked by a casino
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A major moment in PKD + Religion scholarship: "The Esoteric Theology of Philip K. Dick," edited by George Sieg and Michael Barros, comes out Jan. 8 from @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social and @popandtheology.bsky.social !
December 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM
A major moment in PKD + Religion scholarship: "The Esoteric Theology of Philip K. Dick," edited by George Sieg and Michael Barros, comes out Jan. 8 from @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social and @popandtheology.bsky.social !
A small bronze figurine holding a sign in Greek, now on display in Leicester Museum's Egypt galleries. Unfortunately not much information known and I can't read the Greek through the glass but I am intrigued! Has anyone come across anything similar or know anything of this piece?
December 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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A small bronze figurine holding a sign in Greek, now on display in Leicester Museum's Egypt galleries. Unfortunately not much information known and I can't read the Greek through the glass but I am intrigued! Has anyone come across anything similar or know anything of this piece?
December 29, 2025 at 3:12 PM
A small bronze figurine holding a sign in Greek, now on display in Leicester Museum's Egypt galleries. Unfortunately not much information known and I can't read the Greek through the glass but I am intrigued! Has anyone come across anything similar or know anything of this piece?
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Where are we? A good question! Amheida is in the western part of Egypt’s Dakhla oasis, which is deep in the Western Desert. The oasis is a huge depression and most sites are tucked up against the ever-present scarp to the north. And the site is huge! #amheida2026 #dakhlaoasis #romanarchaeology
December 30, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Where are we? A good question! Amheida is in the western part of Egypt’s Dakhla oasis, which is deep in the Western Desert. The oasis is a huge depression and most sites are tucked up against the ever-present scarp to the north. And the site is huge! #amheida2026 #dakhlaoasis #romanarchaeology
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A Christmas surprise: if you want to download the open access copy of Stealing from the Gods, you now can... The official birthday is in a couple of weeks, but time is an arbitrary construct. (Oh, and we'll be PA6029.T46 K67 2026 at the library. An actual real call number!)
Stealing from the Gods
Stealing from the Gods investigates how authors writing between the first century BCE and second century CE addressed the issue of temple robbery or sacrilegium. As a self-proclaimed empire of pious p...
press.umich.edu
December 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
A Christmas surprise: if you want to download the open access copy of Stealing from the Gods, you now can... The official birthday is in a couple of weeks, but time is an arbitrary construct. (Oh, and we'll be PA6029.T46 K67 2026 at the library. An actual real call number!)
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This day 57 years ago.
Earthrise.
A remarkable view of Earth hoving into view as the Apollo 8 command module flew over the lunar surface.
That's us. That's home.
Earthrise.
A remarkable view of Earth hoving into view as the Apollo 8 command module flew over the lunar surface.
That's us. That's home.
December 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
This day 57 years ago.
Earthrise.
A remarkable view of Earth hoving into view as the Apollo 8 command module flew over the lunar surface.
That's us. That's home.
Earthrise.
A remarkable view of Earth hoving into view as the Apollo 8 command module flew over the lunar surface.
That's us. That's home.
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This is NASA image AS08-14-2383, taken by astronaut Bill Anders. It was the first time in history that humans witnessed Earth rise above the lunar surface (a phenomenon only possible if moving over the Moon).
In this view, the lunar horizon is about 175 km across.
Credit: NASA/Apollo 8/Bill Anders
In this view, the lunar horizon is about 175 km across.
Credit: NASA/Apollo 8/Bill Anders
December 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
This is NASA image AS08-14-2383, taken by astronaut Bill Anders. It was the first time in history that humans witnessed Earth rise above the lunar surface (a phenomenon only possible if moving over the Moon).
In this view, the lunar horizon is about 175 km across.
Credit: NASA/Apollo 8/Bill Anders
In this view, the lunar horizon is about 175 km across.
Credit: NASA/Apollo 8/Bill Anders
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Happy 2027th birthday to Emperor Galba, first of the Year of Four Emperors; unpopular with both contemporaries and historians, he was deposed and assassinated after only seven months. Born #onthisday in 3 BCE.
December 24, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Happy 2027th birthday to Emperor Galba, first of the Year of Four Emperors; unpopular with both contemporaries and historians, he was deposed and assassinated after only seven months. Born #onthisday in 3 BCE.
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also in less tyrannical news…
Happy 100th birthday to Winnie-the-Pooh, who first appeared in print #onthisday in 1925. 🧸
Happy 100th birthday to Winnie-the-Pooh, who first appeared in print #onthisday in 1925. 🧸
December 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
also in less tyrannical news…
Happy 100th birthday to Winnie-the-Pooh, who first appeared in print #onthisday in 1925. 🧸
Happy 100th birthday to Winnie-the-Pooh, who first appeared in print #onthisday in 1925. 🧸
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323. Walls, counter-walls, counter-counter-walls… It’s like a very bad early video game - Lemmings, without the fun explosions.
December 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
323. Walls, counter-walls, counter-counter-walls… It’s like a very bad early video game - Lemmings, without the fun explosions.
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📢 New SCS Blog Post
Jordan Rogers on the affordances and challenges of teaching ancient Mediterranean history in a department of History (instead of Classics).
Jordan Rogers on the affordances and challenges of teaching ancient Mediterranean history in a department of History (instead of Classics).
Blog: Re-Packaging the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean | Society for Classical Studies
classicalstudies.org
December 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
📢 New SCS Blog Post
Jordan Rogers on the affordances and challenges of teaching ancient Mediterranean history in a department of History (instead of Classics).
Jordan Rogers on the affordances and challenges of teaching ancient Mediterranean history in a department of History (instead of Classics).
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A new open access vol _
Serving the Gods: Artists, Craftsmen, Ritual Specialists in the Ancient World_ is out now. www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/titel_9143.a... Excited to read this but also remembering Alison Burford’s work on the craftsmen at Epidauros. wellcomecollection.org/works/t5b8zjma
Serving the Gods: Artists, Craftsmen, Ritual Specialists in the Ancient World_ is out now. www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/titel_9143.a... Excited to read this but also remembering Alison Burford’s work on the craftsmen at Epidauros. wellcomecollection.org/works/t5b8zjma
Serving the Gods: Artists, Craftsmen, Ritual Specialists in the Ancient World
Buch | Harrassowitz Verlag
www.harrassowitz-verlag.de
December 19, 2025 at 1:10 PM
A new open access vol _
Serving the Gods: Artists, Craftsmen, Ritual Specialists in the Ancient World_ is out now. www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/titel_9143.a... Excited to read this but also remembering Alison Burford’s work on the craftsmen at Epidauros. wellcomecollection.org/works/t5b8zjma
Serving the Gods: Artists, Craftsmen, Ritual Specialists in the Ancient World_ is out now. www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/titel_9143.a... Excited to read this but also remembering Alison Burford’s work on the craftsmen at Epidauros. wellcomecollection.org/works/t5b8zjma
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For too long, presidents of both parties have claimed the authority to carry about extrajudicial killings under the guise of "national security" without any meaningful oversight from Congress or the courts.
Our leaders must chart a different course and stop President Trump's illegal boat strikes.
Our leaders must chart a different course and stop President Trump's illegal boat strikes.
Opinion | Trump’s Drone Strikes Are Wrong. Obama’s Were, Too
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:21 PM
For too long, presidents of both parties have claimed the authority to carry about extrajudicial killings under the guise of "national security" without any meaningful oversight from Congress or the courts.
Our leaders must chart a different course and stop President Trump's illegal boat strikes.
Our leaders must chart a different course and stop President Trump's illegal boat strikes.
So one way this goes in the out years is the most massive undertaking of damnatio memoriae since, I dunno, Nero?
December 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
So one way this goes in the out years is the most massive undertaking of damnatio memoriae since, I dunno, Nero?
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Look a lot of people were at the Lucifer Foundation's annual Billionaire Vision Brunch in 2011. I didn't talk to all of them. Some of us just find the work the Lucifer Foundation does to be interesting.
December 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Look a lot of people were at the Lucifer Foundation's annual Billionaire Vision Brunch in 2011. I didn't talk to all of them. Some of us just find the work the Lucifer Foundation does to be interesting.
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if you're a DH person (or humanities and data science person), our history dept participates in the DH and Data Sci specializations at the MA level, we're a leading dept of public history, I'm starting up a wee digital archaeology lab, and maybe you might find this interesting? […]
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scholar.social
December 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
if you're a DH person (or humanities and data science person), our history dept participates in the DH and Data Sci specializations at the MA level, we're a leading dept of public history, I'm starting up a wee digital archaeology lab, and maybe you might find this interesting? […]
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UNC-Chapel Hill is closing all six of its area studies centers to save $7 million dollars.
UNC's football coach, Bill Belichick, makes $10 million a year.
In total, the football team now has a $40 million budget.
Make this make sense.
UNC's football coach, Bill Belichick, makes $10 million a year.
In total, the football team now has a $40 million budget.
Make this make sense.
UNC cuts all six area studies research centers, effective 2026
As part of the University's plan to make $70 million in budget cuts across the institution, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Operations Nate Knuffman projected that cutting 14 centers and institutes in...
dailytarheel.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
UNC-Chapel Hill is closing all six of its area studies centers to save $7 million dollars.
UNC's football coach, Bill Belichick, makes $10 million a year.
In total, the football team now has a $40 million budget.
Make this make sense.
UNC's football coach, Bill Belichick, makes $10 million a year.
In total, the football team now has a $40 million budget.
Make this make sense.
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ICE is refusing to provide emergency medical care to people in their custody.
We're demanding a federal judge intervene so our clients can get the lifesaving care they need.
We're demanding a federal judge intervene so our clients can get the lifesaving care they need.
'I am afraid that I might die here': ICE detainee fears 'imminent death' without lifesaving care, lawyers say
In an emergency motion, attorneys asked a federal judge to order ICE to immediately provide lifesaving medical care to two detainees held at the California City Detention Facility.
www.latimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
ICE is refusing to provide emergency medical care to people in their custody.
We're demanding a federal judge intervene so our clients can get the lifesaving care they need.
We're demanding a federal judge intervene so our clients can get the lifesaving care they need.
Academic friends, please remember that although it's only now you could turn your attention to getting that hardware, software, data, or changes you need, the folks who have to provision it for you are working other issues, not just sitting around with nothing to do waiting for your last minute req.
December 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Academic friends, please remember that although it's only now you could turn your attention to getting that hardware, software, data, or changes you need, the folks who have to provision it for you are working other issues, not just sitting around with nothing to do waiting for your last minute req.
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Area Studies Centers at UNC shuttered due to insufficient "return on investment," unclear "metrics of success," and non-alignment with the chancellor's "priorities."
One day (soon), we will look back on the miracle of the public research university and will scarcely believe that it ever existed.
One day (soon), we will look back on the miracle of the public research university and will scarcely believe that it ever existed.
December 18, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Area Studies Centers at UNC shuttered due to insufficient "return on investment," unclear "metrics of success," and non-alignment with the chancellor's "priorities."
One day (soon), we will look back on the miracle of the public research university and will scarcely believe that it ever existed.
One day (soon), we will look back on the miracle of the public research university and will scarcely believe that it ever existed.
New on the @isawnyu.bsky.social news blog: Sara E. Cole Appointed as Next Bernard and Lisa Selz Director of Exhibitions & Gallery Curator at ISAW
isaw.nyu.edu/news/sara-e-...
isaw.nyu.edu/news/sara-e-...
Sara E. Cole Appointed as Next Bernard and Lisa Selz Director of Exhibitions & Gallery Curator at ISAW
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Sara E. Cole as Bernard and Lisa Selz Director of Exhibitions and Gallery Curator. She will join us at the end of March 2026 to lead ISAW’s exhibiti...
isaw.nyu.edu
December 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
New on the @isawnyu.bsky.social news blog: Sara E. Cole Appointed as Next Bernard and Lisa Selz Director of Exhibitions & Gallery Curator at ISAW
isaw.nyu.edu/news/sara-e-...
isaw.nyu.edu/news/sara-e-...
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Today would have been the lovely Joyce Reynolds’ birthday. She was born in 1918 and was one of the earliest female epigraphers and supporters of digital epigraphy. Remember her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_R... Then enjoy the database of inscriptions from Roman Cyrenaica.
Introducing Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica | Libyan Epigraphy Research Network
libyanepigraphy.org
December 18, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Today would have been the lovely Joyce Reynolds’ birthday. She was born in 1918 and was one of the earliest female epigraphers and supporters of digital epigraphy. Remember her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_R... Then enjoy the database of inscriptions from Roman Cyrenaica.