In celebration of our recent fifth birthday, Peopling the Past is counting down the top 5 of each of our media categories! Today we are giving a shout-out to the top 5 #PeoplingVideo contributions across the years /thread 🧵👇

The Colosseum Archaeological Park is opening a hidden underground passageway, dubbed the Tunnel of Commodus, to the public for the first time following a major restoration.

Photo Simona Murrone - Parco archeologico del Colosseo www.wantedinrome.com/news/colosse...

Two days of very stimulating VIEWS meetings, featuring a visit from Annick Payne to educate us in Anatolian Hieroglyphs. I hadn't heard of these painted inscriptions!

www.anatolianarchaeology.net/painted-hier...

CCA South Virtual Conference
sites.google.com/site/ccasout...

Fresh Caesar Loeb just dropped (ok, a month ago, but…). And I bet the Latin text is also better than the Oxford text of great antiquity!

New on the @isawnyu.bsky.social news blog: publication of the latest volume from ISAW Monographs, Ostraka from Trimithis, Volume 3: Texts Mainly from the 2014 and 2015 Seasons (Amheida VIII) by Rodney Ast, Roger S. Bagnall, Clementina Caputo, et al.

isaw.nyu.edu/news/amheida...

What a great opportunity! Seminar Native Peoples, American Colonialism and the Constitution with @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social & Ned Blackhawk for grad students & "junior" faculty. In person & virtual. Apply by 10/10.
www.nyhistory.org/education/in...

🏛️ Introducing the Ancient Mediterranean Learning Commons! 🌊

The AMLC connects scholars with classrooms & communities. Request a speaker or volunteer to share your work!

Learn more at www.cac-scec.ca/amlc/

🏺 #AncientBlueSky

“Plunge into the wild world of the goddess Artemis…a moonlit path that leads to transformation and a dilemma that maybe only the audience can solve… Then meet Kassandra, blessed with the power to see the future, cursed with never being believed: urban, dark and devastating.”

🚨CFP for #ResDiff7 is now available!🚨

Res Difficiles 7 will take place on 13th March 2026 with Dr Samuel Agbamu as our keynote speaker.

Submit an abstract by 12th January 2026:

resdifficiles.com/cfp/

Tomorrow! All are welcome.

Coming up, I'm giving some talks, including a free online talk about my newest project, which is focused on Greek sculpture and the place of disability within it, on Sunday, October 19 at 10am Central:

My latest for @hyperallergic.com is on the many Roman bath discoveries made this summer—it’s a recap of an amazing excavation season and a deep dive into ancient flip-flops worn with socks. Thank you to @lisayinzhang.bsky.social for brilliant edits. May socks be worn with sandals without shame! 🧦 🩴

Vergilian Society: Call for Tour Directors - CANE
caneweb.org/vergilian-so...

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)

Recension | Djamila Fellague et Jean-Charles Moretti, Les théâtres antiques et leurs entrées. Parodos et aditus
Par Hélène Labit-Tlili #AncientBlueSky
journals.openedition.org/frontieres/4...

This Saturday (20 Sept, 2:30pm), join us for a gallery talk on Verlamion, the Iron Age town before the Romans. Discover what life was like before the empire arrived 👣

📍 Verulamium Museum
🎟️ Talks included with admission

Learn more: https://f.mtr.cool/rteoowaykv

My next invited lecture will be a virtual Zoom webinar hosted by the Tampa Museum of Art on Tuesday 4 November, 6-7pm Eastern US time. The event is free & open to all to register through the link below. The talk is titled "Ta Megala Theria: Heavy Metal Music’s Reception of Mythological Adversaries."

Me, after being off-line all day *wonders why mutuals are asking about muting images*

Me, having learned:

“Spicomellus had a diversity of plates and spikes extending from all over its body, including metre-long neck spikes, huge upwards-projecting spikes over the hips, and a whole range of long, blade-like spikes, pieces of armour made up of two long spikes, and plates down the shoulder…”

Absolutely epic. I want an entire flock.