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In honor of the gathering season, November's #ImageOfTheMonth is dedicated to a prominent element of Greek gatherings: a red-figure kylix (a drinking cup) that played a starring role in ancient festivals and symposia 🧵 /1
Image depicting a red figure kylix. In this scene, Demeter appears as the veiled figure positioned at the far left, with one hand raised to her head suggesting a gesture of mourning. In front of her, five women and a boy perform a dance leading toward an altar, attended by a priestess with a sacred winnowing fan
November 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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In this week’s #PeoplingBlog post, our Egyptian colleagues from the Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage project offer us a 12-point manifesto which highlights the ways in which the public can treat Egyptian mummified ancestral remains with dignity and respect
peoplingthepast.com/2025/10/31/b... 🧵 /1
Peopling the Past blog logo and logo for "Egypt's Dispersed Heritage" with text that reads: "What should you do when you encounter one of our Egyptian mummified ancestors? A 12-point Manifesto on How to Dal with Egyptian Mummified Ancestral Remains with Egypt's Dispersed Heritage Project."
October 31, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Honoured that @peoplingthepast.bsky.social gets to host this absolute 🔥🔥🔥 manifesto on the treatment of Egyptian mummified ancestral remains written by our colleagues at Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage Project. This is a must read!

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Blog #112: “What Should You Do When You Encounter One of Our Egyptian Mummified Ancestors?” A 12-Point Manifesto on How to Deal with Egyptian Mummified Ancestral Remains with Egypt’s Dispersed Heritag...
In this week’s blog post, we feature the work of our Egyptian colleagues from the Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage project. Here, they offer us a 12-point manifesto which highlights the ways …
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October 31, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Our friends from Egypt's Dispersed Heritage, along with Millennial 3al A5er and and the Horniman Museum and Gardens have written a 🔥 post on the treatment of mummified remains for @peoplingthepast.bsky.social . Find it here (including the Arabic version): peoplingthepast.com/2025/10/31/b...
Blog #112: “What Should You Do When You Encounter One of Our Egyptian Mummified Ancestors?” A 12-Point Manifesto on How to Deal with Egyptian Mummified Ancestral Remains with Egypt’s Dispersed Heritag...
In this week’s blog post, we feature the work of our Egyptian colleagues from the Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage project. Here, they offer us a 12-point manifesto which highlights the ways …
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October 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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In this week’s #PeoplingBlog post, our Egyptian colleagues from the Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage project offer us a 12-point manifesto which highlights the ways in which the public can treat Egyptian mummified ancestral remains with dignity and respect
peoplingthepast.com/2025/10/31/b... 🧵 /1
Peopling the Past blog logo and logo for "Egypt's Dispersed Heritage" with text that reads: "What should you do when you encounter one of our Egyptian mummified ancestors? A 12-point Manifesto on How to Dal with Egyptian Mummified Ancestral Remains with Egypt's Dispersed Heritage Project."
October 31, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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For the final throwback on our countdown to Halloween we return to our series on the presence of the Undead. Melissa Cradic guides us through the complexities of excavating ancient graves and relationships between the living & the disembodied dead in the Near East peoplingthepast.com/2022/10/21/b...
Graphic featuring the Peopling the Past blog logo, the full title of blog post 67 “Beyond the Grave with Melissa S. Cradic, and an image of an Apulian red-figure volute krater depicting Hades and Persephone in the Palace of the Underworld
October 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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For the final throwback on our countdown to Halloween we return to our series on the presence of the Undead. Melissa Cradic guides us through the complexities of excavating ancient graves and relationships between the living & the disembodied dead in the Near East peoplingthepast.com/2022/10/21/b...
Graphic featuring the Peopling the Past blog logo, the full title of blog post 67 “Beyond the Grave with Melissa S. Cradic, and an image of an Apulian red-figure volute krater depicting Hades and Persephone in the Palace of the Underworld
October 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Please consider signing this very important petition to keep Greek & Roman Studies at uOttawa 👇🏻
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The petition is LIVE! uOttawa suspended Greek & Roman Studies without consultation ending advanced ancient languages teaching and Ontario's only ancient languages programme in French. Please sign, share widely and follow for updates. buff.ly/hjj4J7u #SOSClassicsUO #SaveHigherEd #ONfr #Ottawa
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October 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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The petition is LIVE! uOttawa suspended Greek & Roman Studies without consultation ending advanced ancient languages teaching and Ontario's only ancient languages programme in French. Please sign, share widely and follow for updates. buff.ly/hjj4J7u #SOSClassicsUO #SaveHigherEd #ONfr #Ottawa
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October 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Our countdown to Halloween continues with today’s look back to our series on monsters and demons in the ancient world!
Check out #PeoplingBlog #35 Researching Monstrosity in Greek Literature with Fiona Mitchell here:
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Graphic featuring the Peopling the Past blog logo, the full title of blog post 35, and an image from a Greek vase painting showing a winged monster diving towards a ship filled with sailors.
October 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Our countdown to Halloween continues with today’s look back to our series on monsters and demons in the ancient world!
Check out #PeoplingBlog #35 Researching Monstrosity in Greek Literature with Fiona Mitchell here:
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October 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Day 2 of our countdown to Halloween! 🎃 👻
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Our countdown to Halloween continues today as we look back to our series exploring the presence of the Undead and highlight #PeoplingBlog 68: Controlling the Restless Dead in Mesopotamia with JoAnn Scurlock
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Graphic with title of the blog post and an image of an ancient Sumerian cylinder seal impression showing the god Dumuzid being tortured in the underworld by galla demons.
October 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Our countdown to Halloween continues today as we look back to our series exploring the presence of the Undead and highlight #PeoplingBlog 68: Controlling the Restless Dead in Mesopotamia with JoAnn Scurlock
peoplingthepast.com/2022/10/28/b...
Graphic with title of the blog post and an image of an ancient Sumerian cylinder seal impression showing the god Dumuzid being tortured in the underworld by galla demons.
October 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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As we approach Halloween, it’s time to dig into the archives to highlight some of our spooky content! 😱
Today, we look back to our series on “Cursing in the Ancient World” with Blog #87 The Perils of Love: Love Spells in Coptic Magic with Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin
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October 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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As we approach Halloween, it’s time to dig into the archives to highlight some of our spooky content! 😱
Today, we look back to our series on “Cursing in the Ancient World” with Blog #87 The Perils of Love: Love Spells in Coptic Magic with Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin
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October 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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And if you enjoyed these episodes, you can check out all #PeoplingPodcast episodes and so much more at
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#Ancient #Mediterranean #Podcasts /end
Graphic listing the top 5 episodes. Season 3, Episode 12: How do you Solve a Problem like Cleopatra? : Shelley Haley and the last Egyptian Pharoah Season 1, Episode 2 – Spindles and the City with Dr. Katherine Harrington Season 2, Episode 12 – Breaking the Bond: Forced Marriage and Cursed Freedom in Ancient Rome with Katharine Huemoeller Season 3, Episode 10 – These Boots are Made for Walking: Women’s Mobility and Migration in the Roman Empire with Marie-Adeline Le Guennec Season 3, Episode 2 – Call the (Roman) Midwife: Ancient Delivery and Childbirth with Tara Mulder
October 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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In celebration of our recent fifth birthday, Peopling the Past is counting down the top 5 of each of our media categories! Today we are giving a shout-out to the top 5 #PeoplingPodcast episodes! 🧵👇 /1
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October 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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In celebration of our recent fifth birthday, Peopling the Past is counting down the top 5 of each of our media categories! Today we are giving a shout-out to the top 5 #PeoplingPodcast episodes! 🧵👇 /1
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October 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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1 more week until "Cities on the Edge: Documenting, Preserving, and Teaching Endangered Urban Heritage in Egypt, Sudan, and Palestine"!

Registration is free – online option available🙏

Program & registration link: everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/c...

#CulturalHeritage #Museums
Program flyer with event time and location information, as well as images of endangered heritage
October 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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And if you are interested in finding out more about Lisa’s work, you can also check out episode 4 of #PeoplingPodcast Season 4 – “Curating with Care: Transparency in Museums with Lisa Saladino Haney” – peoplingthepast.com/2025/05/20/s...

#Ancient #Mediterranean #Egypt #Archaeology
Lisa stands in the middle of a museum space.
October 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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In our new #PeoplingBlog post, Dr. Lisa Saladino Haney takes us through her work on the Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s new “Egypt on the Nile” project, in which they are re-imagining the ways that we conceive of museum exhibitions related to ancient Egypt: peoplingthepast.com/2025/10/17/b...
Image of painting depicting mummification process. Text on border reads "Blog Post #111: Telling New Stories: Do We Need to Display the Egyptian Dead? with Lisa Saladino Haney"
October 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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In our new #PeoplingBlog post, Dr. Lisa Saladino Haney takes us through her work on the Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s new “Egypt on the Nile” project, in which they are re-imagining the ways that we conceive of museum exhibitions related to ancient Egypt: peoplingthepast.com/2025/10/17/b...
Image of painting depicting mummification process. Text on border reads "Blog Post #111: Telling New Stories: Do We Need to Display the Egyptian Dead? with Lisa Saladino Haney"
October 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Looking forward to sharing the work of @peoplingthepast.bsky.social with more Illinois folks at this weekend’s annual meeting!
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Join us starting tonight for the annual fall meeting in Lincolnshire, IL. On-site registration available!
Talks include keynote by @kataplexis.bsky.social & papers by @vickyausten.bsky.social @magistracohen.bsky.social @nimiumamatrix.bsky.social & many more IL classicists!

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October 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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In celebration of our recent fifth birthday, Peopling the Past is counting down the top 5 of each of our media categories! Today we are giving a shout-out to the top 5 #PeoplingVideo contributions across the years /thread 🧵👇
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October 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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In the spirit of Halloween, October’s #ImageOfTheMonth is a particularly cursed item: a Roman curse tablet (defixio) from 1st–4th century CE London (British Museum 1934,1105.1).
This thin sheet of lead wishes ill-health to a woman named Tretia Maria /1
A thin lead sheet with holes pierced in it.
October 2, 2025 at 2:25 PM