Dr. Virginia L. Campbell
@vlcampbell.bsky.social
Ancient historian, archaeologist, writer, lecturer at The Open University and University of Birmingham. All things Pompeii, Rome, and epigraphy.
https://pompeiinetworks.wordpress.com/
https://pompeiinetworks.wordpress.com/
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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A wee bit of the #Cicero brothers (maybe?) and a whole lot of #Pompeii. #AncientHistory www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...
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I have been playing with the open source "UMap" along with CAWM & DARE Maptiles of the Roman Empire to help people make their own maps for websites, teaching, and books using ancient world data. Is there any interest in learning the basics of DIY maps? umap.openstreetmap.de/en/map/ancie...
November 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I have been playing with the open source "UMap" along with CAWM & DARE Maptiles of the Roman Empire to help people make their own maps for websites, teaching, and books using ancient world data. Is there any interest in learning the basics of DIY maps? umap.openstreetmap.de/en/map/ancie...
I think you’d need more than a couple of scooters to get away for this one….
Waking up to news 🚨 that 6 (!) Roman statues were stolen from Syria’s National Museum, in Damascus, on Monday. No details on which statues yet, but I had a few pics below from the GRB gallery with the famed Al-Lat Athena. Heartbreaking news.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I think you’d need more than a couple of scooters to get away for this one….
My students and I have spent the last two hours devising a new definition for ancient literacy. This is the good part of academia: engaged, thoughtful, and curious students who critique scholarship and ideas and come up with a better way. #tinyjoys #whyiteach
November 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
My students and I have spent the last two hours devising a new definition for ancient literacy. This is the good part of academia: engaged, thoughtful, and curious students who critique scholarship and ideas and come up with a better way. #tinyjoys #whyiteach
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I have a very bad feeling about this...
October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I have a very bad feeling about this...
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Preserving Pompeii’s past, one step at a time
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Preserving Pompeii’s past, one step at a time
Art conservator and restorer Ludovica Alesse works to safeguard Ancient Roman remains unearthed in the latest excavations to ensure the city’s story will never fade.
www.nature.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Preserving Pompeii’s past, one step at a time
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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100% woud let nibble.
That moment when you've just started digging an archaeological trench and a visitor comes along and eats your finds...🤦♂️
#FindsFriday #EdibleArchaeology 🐑🐏
#FindsFriday #EdibleArchaeology 🐑🐏
October 17, 2025 at 9:46 AM
100% woud let nibble.
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All time classic
October 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
All time classic
Genius. Definitely genius.
We can't decide weather this bottle-opener/trowel combo is genius or madness.
October 17, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Genius. Definitely genius.
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Archaeologists think they've found a mass grave of Roman soldiers from the Battle of Mursa (260 AD). 🧪🏺
Skeleton-filled well in Croatia likely holds remains of Roman soldiers, study finds
Archaeologists have discovered a mass grave of Roman soldiers hidden inside an ancient well in Croatia.
www.livescience.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Archaeologists think they've found a mass grave of Roman soldiers from the Battle of Mursa (260 AD). 🧪🏺
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Delighted to have a short piece in this week's TLS on Hades 2, gender, and modern myth making.
www.the-tls.com/arts/hades-i...
www.the-tls.com/arts/hades-i...
Hell with other people
Video games are often the first and most common way that many people now encounter the classical world. Hades, a critical hit following its release in
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October 17, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Delighted to have a short piece in this week's TLS on Hades 2, gender, and modern myth making.
www.the-tls.com/arts/hades-i...
www.the-tls.com/arts/hades-i...
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Are you working on relations between bodies (living/dead/human/animal/other!) & ritual in the #ancient #Roman world? If so, maybe you'd like to submit a 300-word abstract for the session 'Bodies in Ritual Practices' at RAC/TRAC Aarhus, 21-23 May 2026?! See www.romansocietyrac.ac.uk/ractrac-2026...
Call for Papers « Roman Archaeology Conference
Roman Archaeology Conference
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September 18, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Are you working on relations between bodies (living/dead/human/animal/other!) & ritual in the #ancient #Roman world? If so, maybe you'd like to submit a 300-word abstract for the session 'Bodies in Ritual Practices' at RAC/TRAC Aarhus, 21-23 May 2026?! See www.romansocietyrac.ac.uk/ractrac-2026...
So pretty! #roadporn
For #RomanRoadsFriday
this fantastic photo of a cross section of a #Roman road, Fuenterroble de Salvatierra, Spain.
Photo: Jim Paton via Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/27727...
🏺 #archaeology
this fantastic photo of a cross section of a #Roman road, Fuenterroble de Salvatierra, Spain.
Photo: Jim Paton via Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/27727...
🏺 #archaeology
September 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
So pretty! #roadporn
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Free lecture by Prof Jaś Elsner at Senate House on 10th October. Book on the link below.
The 28th Denys Haynes Memorial Lecture
Monument, movement and the ritual body: ancient Indian, Roman and Greek art | British Museum share.google/glf556KROUQV...
The 28th Denys Haynes Memorial Lecture
Monument, movement and the ritual body: ancient Indian, Roman and Greek art | British Museum share.google/glf556KROUQV...
Monument, movement and the ritual body: ancient Indian, Roman and Greek art
Join one of Britain's leading art historians, Jaś Elsner, for a look at the religious context of some of the great monuments of antiquity.
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September 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Free lecture by Prof Jaś Elsner at Senate House on 10th October. Book on the link below.
The 28th Denys Haynes Memorial Lecture
Monument, movement and the ritual body: ancient Indian, Roman and Greek art | British Museum share.google/glf556KROUQV...
The 28th Denys Haynes Memorial Lecture
Monument, movement and the ritual body: ancient Indian, Roman and Greek art | British Museum share.google/glf556KROUQV...
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Live from Vicus Caprarius in #Rome!
Visitors can explore the remnants of an ancient Roman residential complex, including a luxurious mansion (a domus) and an apartment building (insula).
It includes a massive water reservoir, or castellum aquae, which was part of the Aqua Virgo aqueduct (1st c. CE)
Visitors can explore the remnants of an ancient Roman residential complex, including a luxurious mansion (a domus) and an apartment building (insula).
It includes a massive water reservoir, or castellum aquae, which was part of the Aqua Virgo aqueduct (1st c. CE)
September 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Live from Vicus Caprarius in #Rome!
Visitors can explore the remnants of an ancient Roman residential complex, including a luxurious mansion (a domus) and an apartment building (insula).
It includes a massive water reservoir, or castellum aquae, which was part of the Aqua Virgo aqueduct (1st c. CE)
Visitors can explore the remnants of an ancient Roman residential complex, including a luxurious mansion (a domus) and an apartment building (insula).
It includes a massive water reservoir, or castellum aquae, which was part of the Aqua Virgo aqueduct (1st c. CE)
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Ptolemy II to the Alexandrians
September 2, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Ptolemy II to the Alexandrians
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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...
If the University of Chicago Won’t Defend the Humanities, Who Will?
Why it matters that the University of Chicago is pausing admissions to doctoral programs in literature, philosophy, the arts, and languages
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August 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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.
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For #MosaicMonday we thought we resurrect this famous Jim Henson scene.
August 18, 2025 at 8:11 AM
For #MosaicMonday we thought we resurrect this famous Jim Henson scene.
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For #MosaicMonday this fantastic photo of a mosaic (and a lovely fish 🐟) that was discovered in the submerged ruins of #Roman Baiae.
Photo: Parco Archeologico Campi Flegrei
Photo: Parco Archeologico Campi Flegrei
August 18, 2025 at 7:44 AM
For #MosaicMonday this fantastic photo of a mosaic (and a lovely fish 🐟) that was discovered in the submerged ruins of #Roman Baiae.
Photo: Parco Archeologico Campi Flegrei
Photo: Parco Archeologico Campi Flegrei
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Reposted by Dr. Virginia L. Campbell
