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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · 3d

Absolutely true — teachers are so important, creating futures, opening up views on the world

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · 3d

🙏🏼🙏🏼🐘🐘 thank you

Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks to @drmaimusie.bsky.social for doing such an excellent job hosting our chat about #carthage

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · 13d

Agreed — so good to see this, I’ve always wanted to know more

Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · 13d

Excited for this and hope to see you there too! #carthage

Dr Mai Musié (ሙሴ) @drmaimusie.bsky.social · 13d

Only a week to go folks! If you’ve not got your tickets head over to @waterstones.bsky.social ! We would love to see you there!

@gevemac.bsky.social

#Africa #AncientHistory #Heritage

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · 18d

@drmaimusie.bsky.social and me talking about #Carthage on Oct 2nd. Join us!

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · 19d

Oooh

Isabelle Marie @isabellemarie.bsky.social · 19d

Forgotten Medieval Castle Discovered on Scottish Isle.
archaeology.org/news/2025/09...

News - Forgotten Medieval Castle Discovered on Scottish Isle - Archaeology Magazine

ISLAY, SCOTLAND—BBC News reports that a forgotten medieval castle and royal stronghold were identified at […]

archaeology.org

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · Sep 8

Agreed!

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · Sep 8

The definitive evidence of Captain Janeway's extensive temporal interference 😉

Happy Star Trek Day! 🖖

Neolithic arrowheads on display at Archäologische Staatssammlung München

📷 me

#StarTrekDay #Archaeology 🏺

A display of numerous stone arrowheads, neatly arranged in rows on a flat surface, showing a variety of triangular shapes and sizes with notched bases. Their shape resembles a Star Trek combadge.

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Jack El-Hai @jackelhai.bsky.social · Aug 29

"Not only history reclaimed, this is #history at its best!"

Today's book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @gevemac.bsky.social!

Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe

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Dr Mai Musié (ሙሴ) @drmaimusie.bsky.social · Aug 29

Happy Friday Folks!The sun ☀️ is finally shining and I’m super excited to be interviewing @gevemac.bsky.social on her latest book 📕’Carthage: A New History of an Ancient Empire’! A topic close to my heart 💜- reclaiming and re-centring African history.

Book here: www.waterstones.com/events/carth...

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · Aug 28

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...)

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · Aug 25

Repeat repeat …

Mel Roxby-Mackey @archaeoborders.bsky.social · Aug 25

I recall a senior manager at a university I worked at observing that likewise archaeology graduates ‘Are like rats, you get everywhere’ - it was meant as a compliment. We can turn our skills to all kinds of diverse environments.

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · Aug 25

SAY THIS FUCKING LOUDER

Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · Aug 24

Nothing like a little time in #PEI to restore 🇨🇦🌊

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · Aug 15

Coming up on 5 September!

I’ll be at @LondonPodFest at King's Place, 7pm!

talking all things ancient CARTHAGE, with History Hit: The Ancients, Tristan Hughes

Really hope to see you there!

Get tickets 👉 kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/words…

Words • What's On • Kings Place

https://kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/words…

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social · Aug 15

Buon #Ferragosto!

Fresco from #Pompeii (possibly from Fullonica of Sestius Venustus) and a unique example of a group of just women celebrating in what looks to be a rather wonderfully rowdy dining scene with upturned glassware, music being played and a woman holding aloft a ladle.

A woman wearing cream and yellow garments holds a silver ladle aloft. Behind her couches of women seasoned a wooden table look on or play flutes. In the background two slaves pull back the curtain to gaze at the merriment

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · Aug 15

Yes, in Archaeometry and Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry. This was done by microbiologist Chris Allen at Queen’s Belfast, the microbial dna found was horses - in large numbers - but don’t think they found any elephants — sadly

www.qub.ac.uk/sites/Hannib...

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · Aug 15

Delighted to find that Dr Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social has a new book out on Carthage which uses the latest archaeological research. Her 2015 book Hannibal A Hellenistic Life is still the best biography of Hannibal for me because it placed him in a wider context than the military exploits.

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · Aug 15

🐘

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Cambridge University Press - Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org · Aug 14

Why should we care about #archaeology, #monuments, traditions, art, and architecture when survival itself is threatened? Read Morag M. Kersel's blog for the SAA's @saa-aap.bsky.social: ▶️ cup.org/46Ryg9X

#culturalheritage
#culturalproperty

Why Care About Culture When the World Is on Fire? « Archaeology# « Cambridge Core Blog

With the world facing war, climate change, pandemics, and civil unrest, it’s natural to question the importance of preserving culture. Why should we care about archaeology, monuments, traditions, art,...

cup.org

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · Aug 13

😦😱

Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · Aug 10

I was told the bishop used to be an elephant 🐘 in the original game brought from India to the Persian court of the Sasanian king of kings, Khosrow I

Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · Aug 10

New episode — a dive in life in ancient #Carthage
open.spotify.com/episode/3nbl...

How to Survive in Carthage

The Ancients · Episode

open.spotify.com

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Prof Bob Davis @rokewood.bsky.social · Aug 9

Since Messrs #Netenyahu & #Putin have both drawn from me Carthaginian peace analogies—& the prophetic warning of Bertold Brecht—it is fitting & humbling to commend this outstanding new history of Carthage from @gevemac.bsky.social—who 10yrs ago reframed the way we see Hannibal

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Dr Mike Beer @mikebeer.bsky.social · Aug 7

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

People reoccupied Pompeii after Vesuvius eruption, archaeologists find

Site director says ‘a kind of camp, a favela’ was founded in the ruins of city destroyed in AD79

www.theguardian.com

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