Ask me anything about Rome. From gladiators to toilets to taxes, and I’ll answer ... or try to! Roman history that is loud, dirty, and brutal!

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Here is an un-paywalled story about the loan of the Bayeux Tapestry: news.artnet.com/art-world/ba...

#RomanSiteSaturday - The Arch of Germanicus in Mediolanum Santonum (Saintes, France), a Roman arch dedicated in AD 18/19 to the emperor Tiberius, his son Drusus Julius Caesar, and his adoptive son Germanicus, who was born #onthisday in 15 BC.

I bought my first @marcusrediker.bsky.social book in 1990, and my most recent one today. His work has always been inspiring. I can’t wait to dive in to Freedom Ship! 🗃️

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I really really want this to work; a pancreatic cancer vaccine would be so world-changing. Coverage from @scifri.bsky.social www.sciencefriday.com/segments/pan...

Me pretending to pay attention during Zoom meetings:

If I can finish proofreading and make the index in time, my new book will come out in January. 📖

I've been working on it for five years so I'm pretty excited that it will soon be a reality. I'd like to tell you a bit about it.

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The Getty unveiled this past week the final product of an eight-year effort to digitize a massive, centuries-old encyclopedia of central Mexican indigenous culture laist.com/news/educati...

Digital Florentine Codex, encyclopedia of 16th century indigenous Mexico - florentinecodex.getty.edu

@mcsymbiont.bsky.social look what I've found: grashoppers from mexico in the (digital) florentine codex. aren't they cute? no idea whether they also have cicadas in there, but you can look for yourself...
#SymbioSky
👉 florentinecodex.getty.edu

The extraordinary Codex Mendoza compiles information about Aztec history and society. It was illustrated by Mexican artists, then annotated in Spanish.

These pages show the regular tribute given to Moctezuma II by provinces in his empire in the 1530s or 1540s.