Pancakes have been around since 11650 B.C, curry has been around even longer! Check out this list of 11 foods that have survived the test of time. #food#antiquity#history#recipes
🪔 #OnThisDay in 47 BC, at the battle of the Nile, 15 years old Ptolemy VIII, trying to escape, drowned after his boat capsized. After his death, Egypt was left to #Cleopatra, and Caesar entered Alexandria. Cleopatra tetradrachm in the post was minted in Ashkelon in 50-49 BC, now in the BM. 📸 me
Description: Theft is probably one of the most annoying aspects of social life. It is by no means the most dramatic one, but it is one of those things you constantly have in mind. In most Slavic languages, a thief (‘złodziej’ in Polish, ‘злодій’ in Ukrainian, ‘zloděj’ in Czech) literally means an evildoer, as it was this kind of wrongdoing that almost everybody had to deal with. But while theft likely existed in all human societies, it changed over time: how much the thieves stole, what they stole, who stole and from whom, and how people protected themselves - all of these evolved over time. In short, theft has its history and can be a subject of historical research. Late Antiquity is a good period to study it because, in this era, thieves become more visible than before. This paper, examining documentary and literary evidence, will seek to answer questions about how people dealt with theft, attempted to apprehend thieves and recover goods, and, most importantly, what impact theft and the methods of dealing with it had on communities and individuals.
🪔 For #EpigraphyTuesday: Military diploma of a Lycian sailor of the Miseno fleet, Sextus Memmius Clearchi. Dated to 16 November 140 AD, it attests to the granting of Roman citizenship to a Lycian sailor after 26 years of service in the imperial fleet. 📸 me
🪔 For eyes pleasure: three roman glass vessels dated to the 1st-3rd cc AD, now on dispay in the Romanité Museum of Nîmes. 📸 me
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Public Seminar (online): “A Continental Perspective: How Animals Took Their Place in Ancient History” by Prof. Christophe Chandezon of Université Paul-Valéry,
Montpellier
7th March 2024 at 5pm GMT
All are very welcome to attend
Had to take my mom to an appointment by taxi yesterday and the driver starts holding forth about Ancient Greek religion and out comes the sacrificing to “the unknown god”, within seconds. He got an earful.
Not that he will have learned anything about polytheism, the difference between worship and faith, or even why Saul of Tarsus’ antique propaganda is bullshit, but maybe, maybe, he learned that not all passengers are orthodox Christians . (I doubt it)
I know we tend to picture the Athens Acropolis all marble and ancient, as if it had survived from Pericles’ day to the present in austere decay, but it was a working castle, repeatedly fortified and besieged, well into the 19th Century, and it was only about 150 years ago that post-Classical accretions were removed.
Here’s how Edward Dodwell depicted it on the eve of the Revolutionary War in 1821. #Athens#Acropolis#antiquity
🪔 For #ReliefWednesay: a funerary stele with the insignia of a centurion from #Burnum, #Croatia. Dated to the 1st quarter of the 1st c. AD, it depicts a set of nine phalerae connected by a belt. 👉 It is now in the Archaeological Museum of #Zadar, Croatia. 📸 me
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🪔 This is a group of temples at Nettersheim-Pesch, in Germany, called locally as #Heidentempel. It is a Gallo-Roman temple complex dated to the 1-4th c. AD and dedicated to the cult of Matronae Vacallinehae.
🪔 The Gallo-Roman temple district was built on a hill above the confluence of the Wespelbach and Hornbach rivers. It is one of the best-preserved Roman cult sites in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. 👉 ALT
📸 me #archaeology#antiquity#ancientrome @archaeodons@histodons @antiquidons
🪔 For French-speakers, here is the newly published "Archaeological Atlas of France". 📜 It was released by The French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap).
🪔 Such atlas has never been published before. Its documentation comes from tens of thousands of excavations and archaeological surveys carried out by Inrap in France over the last few decades during preventive archaeology operations.
🪔Read ALT text for details.🙂👉 #antiquity @archaeodons@histodons @antiquidons
🪔 An extremely interesting article was published in the Science Advances magazine. The study says that major pandemic events of #roman#antiquity as well as periods of crisis are strongly associated with pronounced climate change, namely a drop of temperatures.
🪔 The chart shows the correlation between temperatures and diseases & periods of crisis in the Roman empire.
👉 The full study can be found on the site of the Science Advances magazine: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk1033 #archaeology@archaeodons
I've been slowly making my way through Walter Burkert's Greek Religion for the first time. I just finished the section on mysteries, about which I knew little. I have no idea why, but I left the section feeling a little creeped out. Something about how he described some mindsets of the mystery (as distinct from polis) cults reminded me of today, and not in a good way. One of the paragraphs even made me think of incels. 😳 Definitely need to do some more reading to wash that away.
Anyone have favorite recommendations to learn about Greek (Roman, Egyptian too, but definitely closer to antiquity than medieval and later) mystery cults?
I have Hugh Bowden's Thames & Hudson text and Michael Cosmopoulos' work on the archaeology in my own collection. Should I next try Burkert's dedicated work on the mysteries? Anything else? Journal articles? Scholar specialists?
"The strength of HOW TO BE lies exactly here, in the acknowledgment of new ideas and new developments happening in the encounters, the borderlands, and on the peripheries."
This week on The Boomerang, I discuss Adam Nicolson's new book HOW TO BE. LIFE LESSONS FROM THE EARLY GREEKS (FSG, 2023). Enjoy!
The Israelites (referred to in the Bible and the Koran) were an ancient people.
Wikipedia: "Archaeology tends to place their origin in the last centuries of the 2nd millennium BC, after the collapse of the great Egyptian and Hittite empires which dominated the Near East. Societies settled in the highlands between the Palestinian coastal plain and the Jordan River".
The State of Judah had Jerusalem as its capital. It was "defeated and annexed by the Babylonian Empire in 587 BC, and part of its population was deported to Babylonia."