Eve MacDonald
@gevemac.bsky.social
Archaeology, history, Sasanians, Carthaginians and some of the bits in between
https://www.evemacdonald.net
https://www.evemacdonald.net
Thanks to @drmaimusie.bsky.social for doing such an excellent job hosting our chat about #carthage
October 3, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Thanks to @drmaimusie.bsky.social for doing such an excellent job hosting our chat about #carthage
@drmaimusie.bsky.social and me talking about #Carthage on Oct 2nd. Join us!
September 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
@drmaimusie.bsky.social and me talking about #Carthage on Oct 2nd. Join us!
Upcoming #Carthage book events:
Sept. 5th @londonpodfest live with @ancientstristan (tickets shop.kingsplace.co.uk/31650/31654)
Sept. 10th @nomad_books 781 Fulham Road, London 6.30-8.30pm
Oct 2nd in conversation @maimusie at @waterstones Gower St at 6.30pm
(www.waterstones.com/events/searc...)
Sept. 5th @londonpodfest live with @ancientstristan (tickets shop.kingsplace.co.uk/31650/31654)
Sept. 10th @nomad_books 781 Fulham Road, London 6.30-8.30pm
Oct 2nd in conversation @maimusie at @waterstones Gower St at 6.30pm
(www.waterstones.com/events/searc...)
August 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Upcoming #Carthage book events:
Sept. 5th @londonpodfest live with @ancientstristan (tickets shop.kingsplace.co.uk/31650/31654)
Sept. 10th @nomad_books 781 Fulham Road, London 6.30-8.30pm
Oct 2nd in conversation @maimusie at @waterstones Gower St at 6.30pm
(www.waterstones.com/events/searc...)
Sept. 5th @londonpodfest live with @ancientstristan (tickets shop.kingsplace.co.uk/31650/31654)
Sept. 10th @nomad_books 781 Fulham Road, London 6.30-8.30pm
Oct 2nd in conversation @maimusie at @waterstones Gower St at 6.30pm
(www.waterstones.com/events/searc...)
August 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
July 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
New book out just in time for summer hols. The story of ancient #Carthage - from its 9th century BCE foundations to the tragic end, burnt to the ground in 146BCE by #Rome. 700 years as a foundational part of the western Mediterranean and 🐘 🐘🐘🐘 too. Thanks to @Eburybooks for making it all possible
June 25, 2025 at 8:12 AM
This week at the University of Cyprus #storypharm
June 16, 2025 at 4:51 AM
This week at the University of Cyprus #storypharm
This gang made it such an interesting day, #ICAANE2025 #Sasanians and can’t wait for #ICAANE2027 in Tbilisi 🇬🇪
June 7, 2025 at 8:55 AM
This gang made it such an interesting day, #ICAANE2025 #Sasanians and can’t wait for #ICAANE2027 in Tbilisi 🇬🇪
#14thICAANE Lyon today and our workshop on #Sasanian archaeology landscapes, ceramics, fire temples and brass this morning
June 5, 2025 at 10:48 AM
#14thICAANE Lyon today and our workshop on #Sasanian archaeology landscapes, ceramics, fire temples and brass this morning
Great papers from @cuhistarchrel.bsky.social colleagues on gender, identity, power and the role of eunuchs from Assyria to Byzantium
May 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Great papers from @cuhistarchrel.bsky.social colleagues on gender, identity, power and the role of eunuchs from Assyria to Byzantium
Full schedule here - John Percival 0.31
May 27, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Full schedule here - John Percival 0.31
We’re holding a #eunuch day at @cuhistarchrel.bsky.social with the biggest of the all (maybe?) featuring … Kerder/Kartir (my auto correct keeps writing Kermit) Chief priest, powerful courier, of early Sasanian kings of kings — but was he a Eunuch?
May 27, 2025 at 8:25 AM
We’re holding a #eunuch day at @cuhistarchrel.bsky.social with the biggest of the all (maybe?) featuring … Kerder/Kartir (my auto correct keeps writing Kermit) Chief priest, powerful courier, of early Sasanian kings of kings — but was he a Eunuch?
Tag team with @rklwood.bsky.social today at @cardiffuni.bsky.social open day for offer holders — learned so many fascinating things about the #alexandersarcophagus
April 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Tag team with @rklwood.bsky.social today at @cardiffuni.bsky.social open day for offer holders — learned so many fascinating things about the #alexandersarcophagus
April 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Say hello to new Dr @domrossi.bsky.social very happy and proud supervisor 👩🏻🎓👏👏
March 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Say hello to new Dr @domrossi.bsky.social very happy and proud supervisor 👩🏻🎓👏👏
Imagine running an offer holder open day for Ancient History at Cardiff Uni at the moment — Saturday was quite intense but my excellent colleagues @ltotelin.bsky.social and Henry Anderson knocked it out of the park 👏👏 #medicine #mandrakes and the ruling strategies of #constantine
March 10, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Imagine running an offer holder open day for Ancient History at Cardiff Uni at the moment — Saturday was quite intense but my excellent colleagues @ltotelin.bsky.social and Henry Anderson knocked it out of the park 👏👏 #medicine #mandrakes and the ruling strategies of #constantine
For the #internationalwomensday2025 post I’m thinking of this amazing woman - Tamar, Queen of #Georgia 🇬🇪 - first woman to rule there (as king (mepe)) Ruled Georgia in a golden age, late 12th/early 13th c. celebrated here on a fresco, bejewelled and crowned from the Church of Dormition in #Vardzia.
March 8, 2025 at 9:15 AM
For the #internationalwomensday2025 post I’m thinking of this amazing woman - Tamar, Queen of #Georgia 🇬🇪 - first woman to rule there (as king (mepe)) Ruled Georgia in a golden age, late 12th/early 13th c. celebrated here on a fresco, bejewelled and crowned from the Church of Dormition in #Vardzia.
In search of #waterfowl on this Wednesday morning I came across this: a stunning swimming woman with duck implement, wood and ivory, 14th century BCE Egyptian, she is the handle to the duck body container 🦆 you can find it at detoutesbeautes.louvre.fr/en/start-the...
February 26, 2025 at 7:28 AM
In search of #waterfowl on this Wednesday morning I came across this: a stunning swimming woman with duck implement, wood and ivory, 14th century BCE Egyptian, she is the handle to the duck body container 🦆 you can find it at detoutesbeautes.louvre.fr/en/start-the...
‘There Marius, as he gazed upon Carthage, and Carthage as she beheld Marius, might well have offered consolation the one to the other.’ (Velleius Paterculus - Roman History - 2.19.4) been thinking of these Roman generalissimo’s today
February 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
‘There Marius, as he gazed upon Carthage, and Carthage as she beheld Marius, might well have offered consolation the one to the other.’ (Velleius Paterculus - Roman History - 2.19.4) been thinking of these Roman generalissimo’s today
Wise words for today from Ibn Sayyār al-Warrāq’s Tenth-Century Baghdadi Cookbook — image from preface of Nawal Nasrallah - Annals of the Caliph’s Kitchen - Leiden, 2007
February 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Wise words for today from Ibn Sayyār al-Warrāq’s Tenth-Century Baghdadi Cookbook — image from preface of Nawal Nasrallah - Annals of the Caliph’s Kitchen - Leiden, 2007
‘also a high risk strategy for Amazon, which will disenfranchise a number of #Bloomsbury’s bestselling and high profile writers including Sarah J Maas, Gillian Anderson, and JK Rowling’ but the article does not mention Bingham and MacDonald 2024 😄😄 #carthage
January 24, 2025 at 8:04 AM
‘also a high risk strategy for Amazon, which will disenfranchise a number of #Bloomsbury’s bestselling and high profile writers including Sarah J Maas, Gillian Anderson, and JK Rowling’ but the article does not mention Bingham and MacDonald 2024 😄😄 #carthage