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Jay Carriker

@jaycarriker.bsky.social
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Published historian with a focus on #MarshallTX, culture of the ancient Mediterranean ( #Elagabalus thesis; #Hatshepsut historiography ), & #historiography & #historicpreservation — #writer, #grantwriter, #notary, #photographer, jaycarriker.com

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Jay Carriker @jaycarriker.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
The destruction of the #EastWing is the worst US historical loss to a “planned” demolition since the #SingerBuilding. This did not go through regular channels and is not doing best practices for work on or near a historic building. Anyone telling you otherwise is ignorant or lying. #whitehouse
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Jay Carriker @jaycarriker.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Thank you, I'd be happy to learn more about your project and how I could help with your research. I have sent you the best email.
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Jay Carriker @jaycarriker.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
We need people like her more than ever.
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Jay Carriker @jaycarriker.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Why is staying active on social media so difficult? 😆
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Jay Carriker @jaycarriker.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Ave, Mater.
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Flavia Frisone 🎓 Historian of the Ancient World @flaviafrisone.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
🎙️ Thrilled to join the third episode of Ingenuity with #ChoraMedia and #Saipem 🔗 Exploring how human ingenuity drives revolutions - shaping our past and challenging us to reflect on progress - is both unconventional and essential 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/0VkE... #ancientgreece #mythology
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Ep.3 - Everything evolves and transforms
Ingenuity · Episode
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Thomas Fortenberry @thomasfortenberry.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Never seems good when we see an uptick in web traffic to the primary source "Can a State Constitutionally Secede?" 🫠
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Can a State Constitutionally Secede? – AHA
This is one of the questions of the day, and it appears to be no longer a mere abstract or theoretical question. The Constitution makes no provision for secession. A Government is not a corporation wh...
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James Coverley @jamescoverley.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Pliny writes to Trajan, asking him for the means to fight fires in Nicomedia. Denied! open.substack.com/pub/jamescov...
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Potentially Interesting Roman History
Episode XXXV
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Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
So exciting to have the December issue of @historytoday.com in my hands! I wrote an article with the title "Green Danger. The Remarkable Fall of Absinthe: From 'Green Fairy' to Scourge of Society". If you want to know more about this fascinating drink, buy my book #TheHourOfAbsinthe! 🗃️🍸
This photograph shows an drawing, spread across two pages of History Today. The whole drawing is very red. It shows a skeleton in a suit, holding a spider over a working-class man's head, while pouring him a glass of absinthe. Behind the man's right shoulder is a row of grave and a black bird, in flight. On the right hand side, it says: "History Matters".This photograph shows the cover of the December issue of "History Today". On a red background, there is a drawing Byzantine Emperor in extravagant golden clothes. Next to him, it says "A Christmas to save the Byzantine Empire".
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Tracy Marshall @tracym57.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Carteia in the Illustrated London News, 22 October 1927. via British Newspaper Archives.
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Regina Kammer @kammerotica.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Stumbled upon this awesome blog post about corsets and stays. Also, indie authors will continue to write and publish historical romance, so don't worry. thedreamstress.com/2013/08/term...
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Terminology: What's the difference between stays, jumps & a corset - The Dreamstress
I’ve already posted about the difference between swiss waists, waist cinchers, corsets & corselets.  This week, I’m going back in history, and back to basics, to discuss the differences between stays,...
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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
As I mention frequently re #GameofThrones, folks like my student Savannah Shipman established that rape convictions were higher in 1300s England than U.S. today. Roman law forbade cat-calling women! If we represent the past as undiluted Misogynia, we implicitly excuse current law/norms as "Better."
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Dr Kay Sunahara @kaysunahara.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
When the old number GB346 stays on the object better than the new number 927.15.132 you're glad the database is searchable for both! It's not bad really but it happens often. Crossbow fibula from Winchester, UK, 300-400 CE in the @romtoronto.bsky.social collection. #MuseumWork #RomanBritain 🏺
A nitrile gloved right hand holds a fibula (brooch) in the shape of a crossbow, showing the side where the museum accession numbers of two different generations were inscribed. "GB346" is the older number and crisply readable while "927.15.132" the newer accession number, is chipped and not as distinct, especially the 7 and the 5. Fibula is black-brown, numbers are in white ink, background is grey.
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John Hoopes @jwhoopes2.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Looking forward to digging into this biography by @porican.bsky.social
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Lunesdargent Workshop @lunesdargentworkshop.com · 24/11/2024
Finely crafted terrains for your gaming table.
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Alicia Montemayor @utpictura.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Lo voy a buscar. Afortunadamente tenemos acceso por acá.
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Natalja Saint-Germain @nataljastgermain.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
In East Slavic old beliefs, snakes and birds are cult animals. In fact, there is enough evidence to consider that a snake was seen as the totemic ancestor if not by all, than at least by some of the East Slavic peoples. #dailyspooklore #folklore Illustration: Leni Kae
Depiction of a white snake emerging from water (oil art in black and white)
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Jay Carriker @jaycarriker.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Fascinating new study about #Bes mugs and their use during religious rituals in the religion of #AncientEgypt. #WorldHistory
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Ancient Egyptians Drank Psychedelic Concoctions From This 2,000-Year-Old Mug, Study Finds
Scientists have discovered traces of hallucinogens in a small vessel depicting an Egyptian deity that may have been used in ancient rituals
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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
#Neolithic remains of a figurine from the #Antalya region of Turkey. 📸 My own. #Archaeology #Art #AncientBlueSky🏺
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AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 🥾 @alinagrafik.eurosky.social · 26/11/2024
Have a great #RockinTuesday all! These rocks are in Cappadocia, Turkey. It's an amazing place with so many unique rock formations and cave houses.
There are two large mounds of dark brown rock that have indentations carved into the rock to facilitate climbing over the rock in a dip between the mounds. It's very steep and would still be a difficult climb in my opinion! At the base of the mounds is a large hole carved into the rock, perhaps the start of some sort of dwelling. There is another larger rock behind these mounds, and the sky is deep blue with puffy white clouds.
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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Well, here it is at last, the latest thing in sports and a stocking stuffer nonpareil
Ancient Israel, Judah, and Greece by me, an author
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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
👀 Church Street #Modbury #Devon The remains of a water conduit built in 1708. A gift from Nicholas Trist, Lord of the Manor (as seen in last photo).
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Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
This is one of my favorite, low-tech, ways of visualizing the past! Doesn't oversell the reconstruction, shows possible past and present in same view, works, rain or shine and without power.
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Prof Fiona Skillen @fionaskillen.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Still time to register for my free professorial lecture, titled Sidelined: The problematic history of women’s sport. The event will take place on 10 December in the Deeprose Theatre from 5.30pm. Secure your free place via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/professori...
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Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
A pair of beautiful #Roman glass cups, in a bluey-green glass with white & gold 'snaking' decoration. Found near Köln (Germany), they're a lovely example of the glassware made by skilled craftsmen on the Rhine - and absolutely do not look their 1700+ years of age! AncientBlueSky
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The Partial Historians 🏺 @partialhistorians.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
In the Roman republic, Vedius Pollio gained quite a reputation for treating his slaves badly… but it also turns out that Vedius’ dad had been a slave. Someone get Freud on the line! #CheekyFacts #AncientRome #MosaicMonday #AncientBluesky🏺
Detail of an ancient Roman mosaic showing an eel. What’s that got to do with Vedius Pollio? Well, we recommend our new book ‘Your Cheeky Guide to the Roman Empire’ for all the salacious details!
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Jay Carriker @jaycarriker.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
On the first #MarshallHistory Monday: The city's economy crashed due to the 80s oil bust & it began the #WonderlandOfLights after a letter called for it to renew hope, early guests included Soviets arms control delegates. Wednesday #OksanaBaiul will be part of the lighting ceremony. #MarshallTX
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Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
The medieval #battoo is here @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social! I love my new design inspired by this fantastic bat on Digital Bodleian from the Bohun Psalter (now Exeter College MS. 47, f. 21v) 📜🦇🎉
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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Have you ever wanted to know how long it took to travel in the Roman Empire? ORBIS allows you to choose fastest/cheapest/shortest route & mode of transport. It tells you how long and the cost in terms of boat fares and animal food, lodgings etc. The time of year is considered. orbis.stanford.edu
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ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
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Jay Carriker @jaycarriker.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
For our first #historiography Friday we're revisiting #Elagabalus & the establishment of Varian (adj. for Elagabalus) studies & the #Varianist field by #LeonardodeArrizabalagayPrado through a series of conferences which resulted in this work.
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Roman Hautala @romanhautala.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
1. A valuable clarification by Simon of Saint-Quentin on how much the reception of Mongol envoys cost the treasury of sultan Ghiyath al-Din Kaykhusraw II after his defeat at the battle of Köse Dağ in 1243 and submission to the Mongols (XXXII, 28):
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Ivo van der Graaff @ivovdg.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Two Etruscan sarcophagi and eight urns of the gens Pulfna destined for the illegal art market recovered by the Italian police. uk.news.yahoo.com/italy-recove... Look for a video here: www.classicult.it/recuperati-d...
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Recuperati due sarcofagi e otto urne della gens etrusca dei Pulfna da uno scavo clandestino a Città della Pieve - Classicult
Recuperati due sarcofagi e otto urne di epoca etrusca, appartenuti alla gens Pulfna, da uno scavo clandestino a Città della Pieve
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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Figurines found around ancient hippodrome - www.hurriyetdailynews.com/figurines-fo...
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Figurines found around ancient hippodrome
Two figurine fragments have been unearthed during archaeological excavations carried out around the Antakya Ancient Hippodrome in the southern province of Hatay.
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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
We're up for the Sustainability award! So we've hosed down #CuratorRob, ironed his corduroy underpants and will be sending him off to the awards ceremony tomorrow to represent us.
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Jay Carriker @jaycarriker.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Please note that for World History Wednesdays, I will mostly be sharing cited works of academic or popular history by others.
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Jay Carriker @jaycarriker.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Since there's interest in a #WorldHistory Wednesday & my latest follower is Canadian, we'll start with #CanadianHistory & this #WilfridLaurier video by @jj-mccullough.bsky.social. I presented on the depiction of ancient leaders in the Civilization series (thumbnail, right) at SWPACA20.
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Wilfrid Laurier, Canada's GREATEST Prime Minister
YouTube video by J.J. McCullough
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Dominic Perry (Egypt Podcast) @egyptpodcast.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Amunhotep Son of Hapu and friend
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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The Partial Historians 🏺 @partialhistorians.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Julia the Elder and Julia the Younger weren’t the only Roman mother and daughter duo who had some things in common. Many years later, Galla Placidia and her daughter both had a bit of a thing for ‘barbarian’ kings! #AncientRome #CheekyFacts #AncientBluesky🏺
Detail of a gold glass medallion with a portrait of a family, from Alexandria (Roman Egypt) 3rd–4th century CE, Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia, Italy. Image: Wikimedia Commons. The portrait is sometimes described as depicting Galla Placidia and her children.
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Rebecca L. Davis @historydavis.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Decided to try the "Un-essay" for my intro hist sexuality course. Assignment: identify the most important thing people need to know from what you've learned in this class, & present it however you like. In the works: Alfred Kinsey's Instagram account & board game about (the history of) masturbation.
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Bronwen Russell @curious-bronwen.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Black & white mosaic from the of House of Aulus Umbricius Scaurus-Pompeii. Near the marine gate but closed to the public you can glimpse some of these beautiful mosaics from the street - no wonder they call it the @romanpalace.bsky.social of Italy #mosaicmonday
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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
#TombTuesday Red ochre graves from Hartikkala cemetery site in central Finland. These are from the Comb Ceramic Culture in the Neolithic Stone Age. Photos: M. Miettinen.
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A. Z. Foreman: Serious Philology, Silly Behavior @azforeman.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
A 9th Century Old Irish Poem about being safe from Vikings, read in Old Irish (with reconstructed pronunciation) and in Modern English. Written by a monk in the margin of an Irish manuscript of Priscian's Institutiones grammaticae.
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Regina McIlvain @reginamia.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
"...McCarthy publicly repudiated Eisenhower. But by then, McCarthy, who just a year earlier had been one of the most powerful and popular politicians in America, had lost nearly all of his influence." www.history.com/news/dwight-...
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How Eisenhower Secretly Pushed Back Against McCarthyism | HISTORY
Though silent in public, President Dwight D. Eisenhower worked behind the scenes to discredit Senator Joseph McCarthy.
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GalliaTransalpina🍉 @galliatransalpina.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Greek and Roman texts routinely misrepresent other ancient cultures, both out of propaganda interests and genuine ignorance, and should always be treated as problematic sources for those societies.
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Jay Carriker @jaycarriker.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Thanks, with your comment it seems like we are off to a good start in terms of people's interest.
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Jay Carriker @jaycarriker.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I am thinking about doing regular posts along these lines: #MarshallHistory Mondays, #WorldHistory Wednesdays, & #Historiography Fridays. It's a little much for a cat like person such as myself, but if y'all are interested I will give it a try.
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