Thomas H. Greiner
@sarenput.bsky.social
Lapis-Lazuli | Ancient Egypt
The site of Uruk in Southern Iraq offers up a brilliant history over 1000s of years, yet its archaeological excavations have been marred by challenges in recording the data. I was flabbergasted by the honest account by Dr. Hans Nissen who spoke up about his decades of work with the site, being /1
October 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The site of Uruk in Southern Iraq offers up a brilliant history over 1000s of years, yet its archaeological excavations have been marred by challenges in recording the data. I was flabbergasted by the honest account by Dr. Hans Nissen who spoke up about his decades of work with the site, being /1
Intriguing premise for this book on “The Far Edges of the Known World” that touches well on recent scholarly trends around stories from the “periphery”. Will try to get my hands on it. Anybody read it? What did you think?
www.unseenhistories.com/owen-rees-fa...
www.unseenhistories.com/owen-rees-fa...
The Far Edges of the Known World - Unseen Histories
Owen Rees introduces us to his new history of the Ancient Past.
www.unseenhistories.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Intriguing premise for this book on “The Far Edges of the Known World” that touches well on recent scholarly trends around stories from the “periphery”. Will try to get my hands on it. Anybody read it? What did you think?
www.unseenhistories.com/owen-rees-fa...
www.unseenhistories.com/owen-rees-fa...
Less than an hour to go for the next SSEA Toronto lecture: today we will hear by @torontomet.bsky.social Dr Jean Li on the latest excavations at El Hibeh in Middle Egypt. Lecture starts at 7 pm EST - join us via Zoom! sseatoronto.wordpress.com/2025/07/30/j...
J. Li “Investigating “Their Walls”: The 2024 Season at el-Hibeh (ancient Teudjoi)”
Our lecture in October 2025 will take place on Thursday, October 2 at 7 pm with a presentation by Dr. Jean Li on Investigating “Their Walls”: The 2024 Season at el-Hibeh (ancient Teudjoi). We …
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October 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Less than an hour to go for the next SSEA Toronto lecture: today we will hear by @torontomet.bsky.social Dr Jean Li on the latest excavations at El Hibeh in Middle Egypt. Lecture starts at 7 pm EST - join us via Zoom! sseatoronto.wordpress.com/2025/07/30/j...
Congratulations on your 5 year anniversary.
Today we celebrate FIVE years of Peopling the Past! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who has contributed to and supported our project – we appreciate ALL of you!
And stay tuned over the next few weeks as we count down our top 5 blogs, videos, and podcast episodes from the past 5 years 👀
And stay tuned over the next few weeks as we count down our top 5 blogs, videos, and podcast episodes from the past 5 years 👀
September 16, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Congratulations on your 5 year anniversary.
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It's official, my first solo-authored book (my second book altogether) is coming out the end of October! 🧪👩🏺
And the thing I'm the proudest is I painted (watercolor) the cover! 1/2
www.routledge.com/Thinking-thr...
And the thing I'm the proudest is I painted (watercolor) the cover! 1/2
www.routledge.com/Thinking-thr...
Thinking through Archaeological Complexity
Thinking Through Archaeological Complexity explores how archaeologists can engage with complex adaptive systems, examining dynamic interactions between humans and environments across space and through...
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September 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
It's official, my first solo-authored book (my second book altogether) is coming out the end of October! 🧪👩🏺
And the thing I'm the proudest is I painted (watercolor) the cover! 1/2
www.routledge.com/Thinking-thr...
And the thing I'm the proudest is I painted (watercolor) the cover! 1/2
www.routledge.com/Thinking-thr...
Happy to emerge back onto Bluesky and participate in discussions in all things Ancient Egypt, Egyptomania, and Cultural Heritage. Passed the defence of my PhD dissertation and working now on finishing up final edits. Excited to be back here!
September 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Happy to emerge back onto Bluesky and participate in discussions in all things Ancient Egypt, Egyptomania, and Cultural Heritage. Passed the defence of my PhD dissertation and working now on finishing up final edits. Excited to be back here!
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Most people know of Mesopotamia's ancient art, but a new show at Bard College's Hessel Museum highlights the almost forgotten range of Baghdad's modern art movement, many works of which were lost during & after the 2003 U.S. invasion: wapo.st/3Kks6Wo [gift link]
Review | A look at the beauty of Baghdad’s modern art — and the cultural cost of war
Much of Iraq’s modern art vanished after the U.S. invaded. A show of Baghdad’s 20th-century modernists helps fill in the record.
wapo.st
September 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Most people know of Mesopotamia's ancient art, but a new show at Bard College's Hessel Museum highlights the almost forgotten range of Baghdad's modern art movement, many works of which were lost during & after the 2003 U.S. invasion: wapo.st/3Kks6Wo [gift link]
Grading essays may seem like a trek at times, but it’s also rewarding. I came across a paper where a student related personal anecdotes in response to reading Egyptian primary sources. It was powerful and their response offered up new questions and perspectives to think about the material.
August 7, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Grading essays may seem like a trek at times, but it’s also rewarding. I came across a paper where a student related personal anecdotes in response to reading Egyptian primary sources. It was powerful and their response offered up new questions and perspectives to think about the material.
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What stage of democratic breakdown is it when corporate CEO's have to favor the president with personal gifts in order to ensure favorable treatment from the government?
Tim Cook pathetically kisses Trump's ass by pretending him with a "24 karat gold" gift
August 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
What stage of democratic breakdown is it when corporate CEO's have to favor the president with personal gifts in order to ensure favorable treatment from the government?
At long last. Long, long overdue.
Canada has long been committed to a two-state solution — an independent, viable, and sovereign Palestinian state living side by side with the State of Israel in peace and security.
My statement on Canada’s recognition of a Palestinian state:
My statement on Canada’s recognition of a Palestinian state:
July 31, 2025 at 12:38 AM
At long last. Long, long overdue.
If a student ever asks me again why we should not separate the ancient from modern history of a country, this is a great study for why.
Did you know an unprovenanced papyrus possibly from the West Bank held by 🇮🇱 + published by a 🇦🇹🇮🇱 team will be presented at the international congress of papyrology in 🇩🇪this week?
We wrote about why we are boycotting the conference 👇 & the papylist admin refused to share our post🙃 tinyurl.com/3vc4byyw
We wrote about why we are boycotting the conference 👇 & the papylist admin refused to share our post🙃 tinyurl.com/3vc4byyw
“Good can be radical”: Ancient Papyri and Ethics in Evil Times
by Usama Ali Gad and Katherine Blouin Cover picture: Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion arrives by helicopter at the archaeological excavations at Hatzor, accompanied by Shimon Peres and former Hagana…
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July 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
If a student ever asks me again why we should not separate the ancient from modern history of a country, this is a great study for why.
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Eager to paint Howard Carter as a hero, Egyptology has been slow to confront the open secret of his thefts from the tomb (except when one US collector/‘mummy’ expert wanted to publicise his 2022 book…). This article lays it out clearly: will the July 27th auction of this item go ahead? 📜🏺🗃️ #Egypt
Did this grasshopper come from the tomb of Tutankhamun?
The Guennol Grasshopper is coming to auction after spending years in notable private collections, but are its origins even more illustrious?
apollo-magazine.com
July 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Eager to paint Howard Carter as a hero, Egyptology has been slow to confront the open secret of his thefts from the tomb (except when one US collector/‘mummy’ expert wanted to publicise his 2022 book…). This article lays it out clearly: will the July 27th auction of this item go ahead? 📜🏺🗃️ #Egypt
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Google's AI summaries are
- killing traffic to legitimate sites
- producing summaries that can be wrong
- in the long run probably making you a dumbass
www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...
- killing traffic to legitimate sites
- producing summaries that can be wrong
- in the long run probably making you a dumbass
www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...
Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain
Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.
www.404media.co
July 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Google's AI summaries are
- killing traffic to legitimate sites
- producing summaries that can be wrong
- in the long run probably making you a dumbass
www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...
- killing traffic to legitimate sites
- producing summaries that can be wrong
- in the long run probably making you a dumbass
www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...
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Why the American School of Overseas Research might be legally liable for complicity w genocide as per Francesca Albanese's new report
Despite 2 years of genocide, ASOR continues to fund work in Israel. Take this seemingly innocent post 1/ 🧵
Despite 2 years of genocide, ASOR continues to fund work in Israel. Take this seemingly innocent post 1/ 🧵
Gabbi Graber, a 2024 Stevan B. Dana Fieldwork Scholarship recipient, excavated at Tel Burna in the Shephelah hills of Israel. Drawing from personal reflections and field experience, Gabbi shares what it was like to dig in this storied landscape. Read her fieldwork report here: buff.ly/wOGxuIH
July 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Why the American School of Overseas Research might be legally liable for complicity w genocide as per Francesca Albanese's new report
Despite 2 years of genocide, ASOR continues to fund work in Israel. Take this seemingly innocent post 1/ 🧵
Despite 2 years of genocide, ASOR continues to fund work in Israel. Take this seemingly innocent post 1/ 🧵
Who said pottery ain’t glamorous!
A selection of pottery vessels from the #Neolithic Schussenried culture, which was prevalent in southwestern Germany.
Aren't they beautiful?
Dating ca. 4,000 BC, From the Federseeried, Lake Federsee.
📷 @almbawue.bsky.social
🏺 #archaeology
Aren't they beautiful?
Dating ca. 4,000 BC, From the Federseeried, Lake Federsee.
📷 @almbawue.bsky.social
🏺 #archaeology
July 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Who said pottery ain’t glamorous!
@mark-carney.bsky.social Mr. Carney, I came across this highly problematic behaviour by Liberal Staffers in Ottawa and I am hoping you would take action against ensuring this would never happen again. Such behaviour reflects poorly on the Liberal Party and this should never be tolerated.
April 14, 2025 at 1:46 AM
@mark-carney.bsky.social Mr. Carney, I came across this highly problematic behaviour by Liberal Staffers in Ottawa and I am hoping you would take action against ensuring this would never happen again. Such behaviour reflects poorly on the Liberal Party and this should never be tolerated.
Taking steps forward with my degree and am looking forward to finishing up soon. Lots of revising and editing awaits me while I also teach two undergrad courses on #AncientEgypt! Up and forward!
February 11, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Taking steps forward with my degree and am looking forward to finishing up soon. Lots of revising and editing awaits me while I also teach two undergrad courses on #AncientEgypt! Up and forward!
Huge news out of Canada: M. Trudeau will resign as Liberal leader and eventually as PM. Just hoping now that this avoids a Conservative gov’t…
Trudeau to resign as prime minister after Liberal leadership race | CBC News
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he plans to step down once the Liberal Party has chosen a successor, bringing his time leading the country to a tumultuous end.
www.cbc.ca
January 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Huge news out of Canada: M. Trudeau will resign as Liberal leader and eventually as PM. Just hoping now that this avoids a Conservative gov’t…
On my way to invigorating an exam this morning. How is it already Dec. 11? Where has November gone or October for that matter?
December 11, 2024 at 12:40 PM
On my way to invigorating an exam this morning. How is it already Dec. 11? Where has November gone or October for that matter?
Thought-provoking article on how we make sense of “Prehistory”. The authors touch really well on the complexity and opt for the term “Deep History” instead: www.sapiens.org/archaeology/... #history #prehistory
It’s Time to Replace “Prehistory” With “Deep History”
Archaeologists in Southeast Asia are pushing toward a deeper understanding of history that amplifies Indigenous and local perspectives.
www.sapiens.org
December 4, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Thought-provoking article on how we make sense of “Prehistory”. The authors touch really well on the complexity and opt for the term “Deep History” instead: www.sapiens.org/archaeology/... #history #prehistory
Friday at #ASOR24 begins in session 5G with a talk on the impact of trade on agricultural evolution in the Northern Horn of Africa by Helina Woldekiros.
November 22, 2024 at 1:27 PM
Friday at #ASOR24 begins in session 5G with a talk on the impact of trade on agricultural evolution in the Northern Horn of Africa by Helina Woldekiros.
Picture my excitement 😃 as I approached. And then picture my reaction when I had a closer look 😭😭 - it’s obv not lapis-lazuli. Just a dark blue coloured fake boulder with metallic-looking patches. Come on! #ASOR24
November 22, 2024 at 2:46 AM
Picture my excitement 😃 as I approached. And then picture my reaction when I had a closer look 😭😭 - it’s obv not lapis-lazuli. Just a dark blue coloured fake boulder with metallic-looking patches. Come on! #ASOR24
Made my way down to the Mesopotamia session at #ASOR24 today and my eyes caught sight of a large dark-blue coloured boulder affixed to a wall today 👀⬇️. Could it be?
November 22, 2024 at 2:44 AM
Made my way down to the Mesopotamia session at #ASOR24 today and my eyes caught sight of a large dark-blue coloured boulder affixed to a wall today 👀⬇️. Could it be?
Enjoyed some wonderful talks at #ASOR24 this morning on the topic of Cultural Heritage. Great questions by the audience around stakeholders, increasing accessibility and source community involvement in all decisions/research/events./1
November 21, 2024 at 6:20 PM
Enjoyed some wonderful talks at #ASOR24 this morning on the topic of Cultural Heritage. Great questions by the audience around stakeholders, increasing accessibility and source community involvement in all decisions/research/events./1
