E-J Graham
@e-jgraham.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at The Open University | Roman archaeology | material religion | penguins 🐧
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At the Roman site of Olbia (pleiades.stoa.org/places/471987) near Arles (France), archaeologists have found hundreds of burials where funeral pyres facilitated cremated remains of persons and then were turned into tombs on the site of the pyre 🔥 . www.inrap.fr/pratiques-fu...
November 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
At the Roman site of Olbia (pleiades.stoa.org/places/471987) near Arles (France), archaeologists have found hundreds of burials where funeral pyres facilitated cremated remains of persons and then were turned into tombs on the site of the pyre 🔥 . www.inrap.fr/pratiques-fu...
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I wrote about Roman curse tablets in Ancient History Magazine - available now! www.karwansaraypublishers.com/en-gb/produc...
Ancient History Magazine 57
In ancient Rome, as throughout the ancient world, people's lives were structured around religious rituals and festivals, they prayed to the gods for guidance, and it was believed the gods even interce...
www.karwansaraypublishers.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:34 AM
I wrote about Roman curse tablets in Ancient History Magazine - available now! www.karwansaraypublishers.com/en-gb/produc...
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Check out this latest research blog from the very excellent Seeing The Dead project in York.
It's an account of what we found when removing the upper part of a Roman gypsum cast which hadnt been moved in 150years.
seeingthedead.ac.uk/blog/excavat...
It's an account of what we found when removing the upper part of a Roman gypsum cast which hadnt been moved in 150years.
seeingthedead.ac.uk/blog/excavat...
Excavating a Roman gypsum burial
We've begun work on one of the project's most intriguing burials - a surviving gypsum casing inside a Roman sarcophagus. Find out what we discovered during our initial investigations!
seeingthedead.ac.uk
October 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Check out this latest research blog from the very excellent Seeing The Dead project in York.
It's an account of what we found when removing the upper part of a Roman gypsum cast which hadnt been moved in 150years.
seeingthedead.ac.uk/blog/excavat...
It's an account of what we found when removing the upper part of a Roman gypsum cast which hadnt been moved in 150years.
seeingthedead.ac.uk/blog/excavat...
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Our @universitypress.cambridge.org book "Senses, Cognition and Ritual Experience in the Roman World" is #OPENACCESS !
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#archaeology #sensoryarchaeology #senses #cognition #cognitivescienceofreligion #ritual #religion #classics #ancienthistory #romanhistory
Our @universitypress.cambridge.org book "Senses, Cognition and Ritual Experience in the Roman World" is #OPENACCESS !
👇
www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
#archaeology #sensoryarchaeology #senses #cognition #cognitivescienceofreligion #ritual #religion #classics #ancienthistory #romanhistory
Senses, Cognition, and Ritual Experience in the Roman World
Cambridge Core - Ancient History - Senses, Cognition, and Ritual Experience in the Roman World
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October 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
📯🏺🏛️
Our @universitypress.cambridge.org book "Senses, Cognition and Ritual Experience in the Roman World" is #OPENACCESS !
👇
www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
#archaeology #sensoryarchaeology #senses #cognition #cognitivescienceofreligion #ritual #religion #classics #ancienthistory #romanhistory
Our @universitypress.cambridge.org book "Senses, Cognition and Ritual Experience in the Roman World" is #OPENACCESS !
👇
www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
#archaeology #sensoryarchaeology #senses #cognition #cognitivescienceofreligion #ritual #religion #classics #ancienthistory #romanhistory
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Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️
October 8, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️
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Starting next Thursday at 5:30pm BST (9:30am PST), the Badè Museum will kick off it's new Lecture Series. Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Research Facility @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, the Series will explore Disability in the Ancient Middle East and Mediterranean. (1/4)
September 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Starting next Thursday at 5:30pm BST (9:30am PST), the Badè Museum will kick off it's new Lecture Series. Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Research Facility @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, the Series will explore Disability in the Ancient Middle East and Mediterranean. (1/4)
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
www.romansocietyrac.ac.uk
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...
Saw this and thought of you @tony-potter.bsky.social!
Intact Etruscan chamber tomb discovered – The Past
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Intact Etruscan chamber tomb discovered | The Past
An untouched Etruscan chamber tomb dating to the 7th century BC has been uncovered in the San Giuliano necropolis in Lazio, central Italy. Investigations in ...
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September 16, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Saw this and thought of you @tony-potter.bsky.social!
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Probably a long shot, but does anyone have an electronic copy that they’d be willing to share with me of Friedhelm Prayon (1975) …
“Frühetruskische Grab- und Hausarchitektur”
I had copies saved on a flash drive, but it’s now corrupted & I can’t access it 😑
“Frühetruskische Grab- und Hausarchitektur”
I had copies saved on a flash drive, but it’s now corrupted & I can’t access it 😑
September 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Probably a long shot, but does anyone have an electronic copy that they’d be willing to share with me of Friedhelm Prayon (1975) …
“Frühetruskische Grab- und Hausarchitektur”
I had copies saved on a flash drive, but it’s now corrupted & I can’t access it 😑
“Frühetruskische Grab- und Hausarchitektur”
I had copies saved on a flash drive, but it’s now corrupted & I can’t access it 😑
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Just discovered that @drblankam.bsky.social and Abigail Graham's *Senses, Cognition, and Ritual Experience in the Roman World* with @universitypress.cambridge.org is OPEN ACCESS! Be sure to download. It's outstanding.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
Senses, Cognition, and Ritual Experience in the Roman World
Cambridge Core - Church History - Senses, Cognition, and Ritual Experience in the Roman World
www.cambridge.org
August 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Just discovered that @drblankam.bsky.social and Abigail Graham's *Senses, Cognition, and Ritual Experience in the Roman World* with @universitypress.cambridge.org is OPEN ACCESS! Be sure to download. It's outstanding.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
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Here's your annual reminder: whether you received A-level results today, years ago, or never, there's space for you at the @openuniversity.bsky.social!
August 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Here's your annual reminder: whether you received A-level results today, years ago, or never, there's space for you at the @openuniversity.bsky.social!
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Publication day! Just in time for essential summer reading (preferably by a pool with a cool drink). @bloomsburyclass.bsky.social @openthanatology.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/roman-mou...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/roman-mou...
July 10, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Publication day! Just in time for essential summer reading (preferably by a pool with a cool drink). @bloomsburyclass.bsky.social @openthanatology.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/roman-mou...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/roman-mou...
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Repost of today’s astonishing artifact since the image didn’t come through earlier. 🧪🏺
Penguin Vessel: 1,600-year-old Nazca depiction of a cold-water Humboldt penguin that lives in tropical Peru
A rare penguin-shaped pot reveals the Nazca's interest in depicting the wildlife around them.
www.livescience.com
July 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Repost of today’s astonishing artifact since the image didn’t come through earlier. 🧪🏺
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Glad to see Debby Sneed's, Cecily Bateman's and I's co-authored Subject Profile on Disability in Antiquity for The Classical Review being published online and #OpenAccess today by Cambridge University Press.
You can read the full article via the following link: doi.org/10.1017/S000...
You can read the full article via the following link: doi.org/10.1017/S000...
July 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Glad to see Debby Sneed's, Cecily Bateman's and I's co-authored Subject Profile on Disability in Antiquity for The Classical Review being published online and #OpenAccess today by Cambridge University Press.
You can read the full article via the following link: doi.org/10.1017/S000...
You can read the full article via the following link: doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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This whole thread is full of truth. ECRs are the single-use plastic of the UKHE sector and no-one is doing a damn thing about it.
Being on the precarious carousal often involves being treated like disposal garbage in a variety of exciting ways.
Saying things like 'oh it's hard but we all have to go through it' doesn't engage with that or its effects and it can be really frustrating anf dismissive. 2/
Saying things like 'oh it's hard but we all have to go through it' doesn't engage with that or its effects and it can be really frustrating anf dismissive. 2/
June 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
This whole thread is full of truth. ECRs are the single-use plastic of the UKHE sector and no-one is doing a damn thing about it.
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For those in need of a smile, a reminder that one 19th-century name for a penguin was ‘arsefoot’.
June 15, 2025 at 9:57 AM
For those in need of a smile, a reminder that one 19th-century name for a penguin was ‘arsefoot’.
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The BBC series ‘Pompeii: The New Dig’ just won a Gold Tower at the New York Festivals TV & Films Awards!🏆
Well deserved honour for all who brought the wonder of an excavation to life through those who worked on site & the incredible stories they unravelled
tvfilm.newyorkfestivals.com/Winners/Winn...
Well deserved honour for all who brought the wonder of an excavation to life through those who worked on site & the incredible stories they unravelled
tvfilm.newyorkfestivals.com/Winners/Winn...
June 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The BBC series ‘Pompeii: The New Dig’ just won a Gold Tower at the New York Festivals TV & Films Awards!🏆
Well deserved honour for all who brought the wonder of an excavation to life through those who worked on site & the incredible stories they unravelled
tvfilm.newyorkfestivals.com/Winners/Winn...
Well deserved honour for all who brought the wonder of an excavation to life through those who worked on site & the incredible stories they unravelled
tvfilm.newyorkfestivals.com/Winners/Winn...
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Not long til publication (10/07/25) @bloomsburyclass.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social. Appendices are already available online. So if you're desperate to know (and who wouldn't be!) how often Roman mourners pulled their hair, groaned and so forth, see www.bloomsbury.com/uk/roman-mou...
June 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Not long til publication (10/07/25) @bloomsburyclass.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social. Appendices are already available online. So if you're desperate to know (and who wouldn't be!) how often Roman mourners pulled their hair, groaned and so forth, see www.bloomsbury.com/uk/roman-mou...
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Reminder that the call for these scholarships is open! Deadline 4pm on 3rd June!
Applications are open for MA studentships in Classical Studies at the Open University! Open to:
- teachers in state schools/sixth-form colleges looking to develop provision of classical subjects
- students from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic background
More info: www.open.ac.uk/blogs/classi...
- teachers in state schools/sixth-form colleges looking to develop provision of classical subjects
- students from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic background
More info: www.open.ac.uk/blogs/classi...
Funded MA Studentships in Classical Studies at the Open University | Classical Studies
www.open.ac.uk
May 20, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Reminder that the call for these scholarships is open! Deadline 4pm on 3rd June!
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Great to see this out. Thanks due to the editors. And its Open Access, with a full PDF on the publisher's website: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
May 21, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Great to see this out. Thanks due to the editors. And its Open Access, with a full PDF on the publisher's website: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
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Elated that our book “Senses, Cognition, and Ritual Experience in the Roman World” is featured among new publications at the Uncommon Senses V conference at @concordiau.bsky.social
If you are here stop by Molson building 9th floor lobby to check it out!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
If you are here stop by Molson building 9th floor lobby to check it out!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
May 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Elated that our book “Senses, Cognition, and Ritual Experience in the Roman World” is featured among new publications at the Uncommon Senses V conference at @concordiau.bsky.social
If you are here stop by Molson building 9th floor lobby to check it out!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
If you are here stop by Molson building 9th floor lobby to check it out!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
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what a fantastic thing!! Grants for state school teachers to do an Open University Classics MA!
I am doing my MA in Classical Studies at the OU right now, it is wonderful, please PM me if you know someone who might be interested in doing this and would like to talk to a student on the course
I am doing my MA in Classical Studies at the OU right now, it is wonderful, please PM me if you know someone who might be interested in doing this and would like to talk to a student on the course
Applications are open for MA studentships in Classical Studies at the Open University! Open to:
- teachers in state schools/sixth-form colleges looking to develop provision of classical subjects
- students from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic background
More info: www.open.ac.uk/blogs/classi...
- teachers in state schools/sixth-form colleges looking to develop provision of classical subjects
- students from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic background
More info: www.open.ac.uk/blogs/classi...
Funded MA Studentships in Classical Studies at the Open University | Classical Studies
www.open.ac.uk
May 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
what a fantastic thing!! Grants for state school teachers to do an Open University Classics MA!
I am doing my MA in Classical Studies at the OU right now, it is wonderful, please PM me if you know someone who might be interested in doing this and would like to talk to a student on the course
I am doing my MA in Classical Studies at the OU right now, it is wonderful, please PM me if you know someone who might be interested in doing this and would like to talk to a student on the course
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Applications are open for MA studentships in Classical Studies at the Open University! Open to:
- teachers in state schools/sixth-form colleges looking to develop provision of classical subjects
- students from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic background
More info: www.open.ac.uk/blogs/classi...
- teachers in state schools/sixth-form colleges looking to develop provision of classical subjects
- students from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic background
More info: www.open.ac.uk/blogs/classi...
Funded MA Studentships in Classical Studies at the Open University | Classical Studies
www.open.ac.uk
May 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Applications are open for MA studentships in Classical Studies at the Open University! Open to:
- teachers in state schools/sixth-form colleges looking to develop provision of classical subjects
- students from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic background
More info: www.open.ac.uk/blogs/classi...
- teachers in state schools/sixth-form colleges looking to develop provision of classical subjects
- students from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic background
More info: www.open.ac.uk/blogs/classi...
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I'm excited to announce my co-editor & I are hosting a virtual author panel for "Disability in Ancient Egypt and Egyptology: All Our Yesterdays," on May 21st. Come listen and join our brilliant authors for a detailed discussion. More information & registration: www.eventbrite.com/e/qa-panel-w...
Q&A Panel with the Authors: Disability in Ancient Egypt and Egyptology
Join us for a virtual Q&A session with authors of the newly published "Disability in Ancient Egypt and Egyptology: All Our Yesterdays"
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April 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I'm excited to announce my co-editor & I are hosting a virtual author panel for "Disability in Ancient Egypt and Egyptology: All Our Yesterdays," on May 21st. Come listen and join our brilliant authors for a detailed discussion. More information & registration: www.eventbrite.com/e/qa-panel-w...