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Ancient Coin of the Day: Realistically today, there could only be one topic - as a birthday present for Nero, let's look at how a young princeps can age rapidly
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When I started my PhD, this paper was what I wanted to do. But I realized that there isn't much demographic data for salamanders out there to build a realistic
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Listening to lastest @TheWonderHouse podcast with @SushmaJansari and @GawadHeba - https://thewonderhouse.co.uk/heba-abd-el-gawad I have now added this link to her entry on @HistofArchatIoA "Historians of Archaeology" series https:
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Today I am going to tell you about a legal term from real estate transactions in the Middle East dating back 2,800 or more years.The term is bētu epšu adi
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"If museums are to shine a light in the dark corners of history, then by God their staff had better reflect the diversity of their communities. We need the will
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On the occasion of #IndependenceDay let's remember our unsung heroes Rani Abbakka Chowta a fearless Jain queen of ullal.Only person in history to defeat mighty Portuguese for over 4 decades
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#coronavirus Lock-in Day 106. Public galleries closed @NMIreland, staff still mainly working from home. Nosy neighbours? This giant anteater was collected in the wild by H. Julatson in Chiriquí Province,
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For #histday20 I’ve been thinking about new approaches to community history, and how to reach people when many can’t visit museums. I’m not sure online is the answer, too many
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Today is World Digital Preservation Day, and we have our Senior Images Coordinator @MuseumLAR taking over our Twitter feed until 5pm to talk all things #digitalpreservation in the Museum!
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In Australia we know more about other cultures than our own. I wonder how many of us could name an indigenous elder or hero from the stolen land on which
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Pretty sure that neuroscientists could preserve and store human brains way better than any cryonics company, and for a lot less than $80,000 each. Even with stupid laws that delay
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The pro-secondary-sources, 'you need to read our introductions first' side of this argument is a kind of neo-scholasticism, all about extracting the syllogisms from books and neatly categorizing and labeling
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Let’s examine the Libbu allegation of majoritarianism in relation to Hagia Sophia. Does this allegation stand scrutiny? Hagia Sophia was built on top of a pagan Temple using columns brought
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My heart goes out to everyone dealing with #museumlayoffs these past few months. No two ways about it, this sucks... As someone working outside the field for four years now,
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Ancient Artefact of the Day: The Meroë HeadA bronze portrait head of the Emperor Augustus, which was excavated at Meroë, where it had been deposited as a victory token by
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I don't know who needs to hear this but saying "so and so cited from X that's a neoliberal institution" isn't the gotcha that you think it is, a thread.
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