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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

all-time favourite image inspired by the #Odyssey, 3rd century AD mosaic from Dougga now in the #Bardo Museum, Tunis. fascinating how this timeless tale gets reshaped for a new world. Film left me wondering... where has our wily, crafty, complicated, trickster pirate anti-hero gone?

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Hello gorgeous #Carthage paperback — available from tomorrow in the UK

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Wondering if anyone in the current American administration has any clue? Some suggested reading struck me as I was looking through this excellent volume edited by @sasanianshah.bsky.social and John Hyland

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Thinking about Rag-i Bibi rock relief of the #Sasanians with this magnificent #rhinoceros.

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

We #sco 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 supporters in disbelief but will take it #SCOvENG

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Hello US #Carthage - readers. FYI Barnes and Noble is currently having a 25 percent discount on books coming out in 2026! And Carthage: A New History (published in North America by @w.w.norton ) is out on Jan 13th and can be ordered in advance

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

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 · 28/08/2025

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 · 24/08/2025

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

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

I make it policy to never believe the #Romans Talking about #Carthage #PunicWars

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Self-promo time — pre-order offer for #Carthage from @waterstones.bsky.social — #summer reads

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

New book out just in time for summer hols. The story of ancient #Carthage - from its 9th century BCE foundations to the tragic end, burnt to the ground in 146BCE by #Rome. 700 years as a foundational part of the western Mediterranean and 🐘 🐘🐘🐘 too. Thanks to @Eburybooks for making it all possible

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

This week at the University of Cyprus #storypharm

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

This gang made it such an interesting day, #ICAANE2025 #Sasanians and can’t wait for #ICAANE2027 in Tbilisi 🇬🇪

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

#14thICAANE Lyon today and our workshop on #Sasanian archaeology landscapes, ceramics, fire temples and brass this morning

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Great papers from @cuhistarchrel.bsky.social colleagues on gender, identity, power and the role of eunuchs from Assyria to Byzantium

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Full schedule here - John Percival 0.31

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

We’re holding a #eunuch day at @cuhistarchrel.bsky.social with the biggest of the all (maybe?) featuring … Kerder/Kartir (my auto correct keeps writing Kermit) Chief priest, powerful courier, of early Sasanian kings of kings — but was he a Eunuch?

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Tag team with @rklwood.bsky.social today at @cardiffuni.bsky.social open day for offer holders — learned so many fascinating things about the #alexandersarcophagus

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Say hello to new Dr @domrossi.bsky.social very happy and proud supervisor 👩🏻‍🎓👏👏

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Imagine running an offer holder open day for Ancient History at Cardiff Uni at the moment — Saturday was quite intense but my excellent colleagues @ltotelin.bsky.social and Henry Anderson knocked it out of the park 👏👏 #medicine #mandrakes and the ruling strategies of #constantine

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

For the #internationalwomensday2025 post I’m thinking of this amazing woman - Tamar, Queen of #Georgia 🇬🇪 - first woman to rule there (as king (mepe)) Ruled Georgia in a golden age, late 12th/early 13th c. celebrated here on a fresco, bejewelled and crowned from the Church of Dormition in #Vardzia.

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

In search of #waterfowl on this Wednesday morning I came across this: a stunning swimming woman with duck implement, wood and ivory, 14th century BCE Egyptian, she is the handle to the duck body container 🦆 you can find it at detoutesbeautes.louvre.fr/en/start-the...

Wood and ivory woman and duck from Egypt

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

‘There Marius, as he gazed upon Carthage, and Carthage as she beheld Marius, might well have offered consolation the one to the other.’ (Velleius Paterculus - Roman History - 2.19.4) been thinking of these Roman generalissimo’s today

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Wise words for today from Ibn Sayyār al-Warrāq’s Tenth-Century Baghdadi Cookbook — image from preface of Nawal Nasrallah - Annals of the Caliph’s Kitchen - Leiden, 2007

Arabic text inscribed in a bowl praising dining

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

‘also a high risk strategy for Amazon, which will disenfranchise a number of #Bloomsbury’s bestselling and high profile writers including Sarah J Maas, Gillian Anderson, and JK Rowling’ but the article does not mention Bingham and MacDonald 2024 😄😄 #carthage

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

If you see this, post an archer (Parthian fired clay from Berlin Altes Museum - 1st to 3rd c CE)

Fired clay mounted male archer — Parthian

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

On this #epiphany day here’s some #magi from the #Oxus treasure holding #barsom - photo from @ British Museum

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Dark December afternoon at the BM and visited once again - in its tucked away little corner- this stunning bronze head from Cyrene. Dates c.300-200BCE

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Wow — So long ago… I worked in #Syria can’t believe all that has happened in the 14 years since — thinking of my Syrian friends now all over the world this morning ❤️ listen here to the wise @mevanscbc give the background and story from this morning www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Adding a little comparative #canadiana to my lecture on landscape and environment in the ancient Mediterranean today 🇨🇦

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

And for visuals this stunning 6th BCE sculpted limestone lion from Cyprus

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Joining here — seeing friends again looking forward to learning more and sharing pics from my recent trip to the amazing Cyprus museum

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