Reposted by PopulusQue RomanusArchaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Palaeogenetics with Hannah Moots www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_Xk...youtube.comPalaeogenetics with Hannah MootsYouTube video by Archaeodeath 0114
Reposted by PopulusQue RomanusSarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Happy National Garlic 🧄 Day! Greeks & Romans loved garlic—but Mesopotamians loved it 1000s of years before them. The Greek ἄγλις (Latin alium) is an Akkadian loan word. At Pompeii, there was even a garlic seller (aliarii) workshop ( 📸 by @pompei79.bsky.social): pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpic... 6350100
Reposted by PopulusQue RomanusKrystal Tsosie @kstsosie.bsky.social · 17/04/2026DNA is not the same as kinship. Our perspective paper argues that treating genetics as the ultimate proof of identity or family can: • erase community-defined relationships • reinforce Western biases • and even cause real harm in policy + research Special Issue: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 512044
Reposted by PopulusQue RomanusHannah Moots @mootspoints.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Excited to share that our cross-disciplinary conversation on ancient DNA and mobility is now published in Studies in Late Antiquity doi.org/10.1525/sla.... - and also out as an episode of the Byzantium & Friends podcast youtu.be/PdNeL6ika-k?... 🏺🧬youtu.beHuman paleogenetics and late antique migration: a cross-discipline discussionYouTube video by Medievalists 1124
Reposted by PopulusQue RomanusDr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Looking down on the elegant mosaic in the west wing corridor of Chedworth Roman villa for #MosaicMonday 1809
Reposted by PopulusQue RomanusHannah Moots @mootspoints.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Where my love of mosaics began! I was lucky enough to work at Chedworth Roman Villa, shortly after they were excavated - We stabilized loose tesserae using reversible materials so these 1,500-year-old floors can keep telling their story. #MosaicMonday mootspoints.blogspot.com/2025/02/mosa...mootspoints.blogspot.comMosaic conservation at Chedworth Roman VillaOne of my first fieldwork opportunities was assisting with mosaic conservation at Chedworth Roman Villa, where my love of mosaics first bega... 1264
Reposted by PopulusQue Romanusrogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Herculaneum, Roman sideboard restored after ninety years of silence www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeolo...finestresullarte.infoHerculaneum, Roman sideboard restored after ninety years of silenceAfter extensive restoration and decades of preservation, the famous wooden sideboard from apartment V,18 on the Decumanus Maximus returns to public view. The artifact, a symbol of Herculaneum's domest... 062
Reposted by PopulusQue RomanusFlint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 03/11/2025The Agora Bone Well is one of the more touching and tragic stories that I've ever heard from an archaeological context It's sad for sure, but also a story about humanity and resilience in the face of hardship www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBy1...youtube.comThe Dark Story of the Agora Bone Well from AthensYouTube video by Archaeology with Flint Dibble 1317
Reposted by PopulusQue RomanusArchaeology Magazine @archaeologymag.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Standing 350 feet tall, the Lighthouse of Alexandria was perhaps the most functional of the Seven Wonders of the World. Archaeologists have now mapped more than 5,000 blocks of its ruins! archaeology.org/issues/november-december-2025/collection/lighthouse-of-alexandria/secrets-of-the-seven-wonders/ 0237
Reposted by PopulusQue RomanusHannah Moots @mootspoints.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Two dolphins from a mosaic floor at Ostia, one of Rome's primary ports. Many of the mosaics here feature nautical themes - including dolphins, whales, fish, ships, and lighthouses #ostiaantica #mosaicmonday 📸 by me 28511
PopulusQue Romanus @populusqueromanus.bsky.social · 30/08/2025The theater at #OstiaAntica #RomanSiteSaturday 🏺 1102
Reposted by PopulusQue RomanusHannah Moots @mootspoints.bsky.social · 24/08/2025Interested in archaeological theory, ancient DNA, and the Roman Mediterranean? 🏺🧬 @ezgimou.bsky.social and I are organizing a session at #TRAC-TiDA2025 to facilitate interdisciplinary discussion and we’d love to have you join us! Call for abstracts is open until August 31st! 162
Reposted by PopulusQue RomanusAntiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 28/08/2025Check out our collection of #medieval European #archaeology, with free & #OpenAccess research such as: ⚓ Excavating a 13th century shipwreck 🏰 The incredible architecture of the Alhambra ✝️ Women's influence in converting England to Christianity & more! 🏺 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 0237
Reposted by PopulusQue RomanusHannah Moots @mootspoints.bsky.social · 15/05/2025How chestnut trees trace the expansion of the Roman Empire www.bbc.com/future/artic...bbc.comHow the humble chestnut traced the rise and fall of the Roman EmpireThe chestnut trees of Europe tell a hidden story charting the fortunes of ancient Rome and the legacy it left in the continent's forests. 1101
Reposted by PopulusQue RomanusFlint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 11/05/2025Fantastic conversation with Dr Hannah Moots @mootspoints.bsky.social about her research into the genetics of ancient Rome, and the misinterpretations that exist on social media Re-posted from the #RealArchaeology livestream, in case you missed it! #AncientBlueSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhaM...youtube.comAncient DNA from Rome, a Genetic History with Dr Hannah MootsYouTube video by Archaeology with Flint Dibble 3508
PopulusQue Romanus @populusqueromanus.bsky.social · 04/05/2025mootspoints.blogspot.com/2024/12/trac...mootspoints.blogspot.comTracing the movements of Iron Age Mediterranean populations with ancient DNAThe Iron Age was a dynamic period that saw the expansion of Greek and Phoenician colonies and the rise of Carthage as the dominant maritime ... 010
Reposted by PopulusQue RomanusArchaeology Magazine @archaeologymag.bsky.social · 29/04/2025A new study indicates that seagrass, an edible coastal plant that harbors a diversity of sea creatures, has been used across the world since at least the Paleolithic and in caves inhabited by Neanderthals 180,000 years ago. archaeology.org/news/2025/04/22/how-seagrass-meadows-shaped-human-history/ 042
Reposted by PopulusQue RomanusMedievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 26/04/2025The Genetic History of Rome, with Hannah Moots www.medievalists.net/2025/01/the-... #Podcastmedievalists.netThe Genetic History of Rome, with Hannah Moots - Medievalists.netA conversation with Hannah Moots about paleogenetic research, its goals, methods, and conclusions. What does it mean to study ancient DNA, and what does it tell us about human history? 1215
Reposted by PopulusQue RomanusJon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 18/04/2025#Ancient Glasswares ,1st century. #Roman painted pitcher showing gladiatorial scenes. Found in Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt. 👀 #Glass #Art #History #artwork #FindsFriday 04510
Reposted by PopulusQue RomanusDr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · 15/04/2025A beautiful selection of colourful #Roman glass vessels, including bowls, flasks, & pots. all made 1700-2000 years ago - they have survived in remarkable condition! On display in the Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna) 🏺AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientGlass 26513
Reposted by PopulusQue RomanusAlison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 11/04/2025A 2,000 year-old Roman advertisement for wine which ranges in price from cheap plonk to the good stuff! 🍷🍷🍷🍷 Painted at the entrance of a shop known as ‘Ad Cucumas’ in Herculaneum, Italy. 📷 by me #FrescoFriday #Archaeology 737590
Reposted by PopulusQue RomanusDr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 09/04/2025We're off to the Welsh islands for #HillfortsWednesday 🎉 Skomer is renowned for its dense Bronze & Iron Age occupation, but the single diminutive promontory fort is separated from the main island on the adjacent Neck, seen here This view shows the low rampart cutting off the headland 📷 My own 312419
Reposted by PopulusQue RomanusDurotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 09/04/2025It's #HillfortsWednesday Huzzah! Here's Bat’s Castle a gorgeous 1.2ha bivallate sub-circular hillfort on Gallox Hill above Dunster #Somerset It has two entrances: a simple causeway at the West and a more complex inturned one at the East This spectacular photo looking west © AndyGB (CC BY-SA 4.0) 014121
Reposted by PopulusQue RomanusHannah Moots @mootspoints.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Exactly - speaking as someone who has been so lucky to study the population of central Italy in the Iron Age and Imperial periods, his understanding of the people of the Rome is woefully inaccurate and serves as intentional dog-whistle for the great replacement theory he promotes 2175
Reposted by PopulusQue RomanusJon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 09/04/2025#HillfortsWednesday Maen Castle is an Iron Age promontory fort or 'cliff castle' close to Land's End in #Cornwall. It is one of only a few fortified sites in Cornwall where Early Iron Age pottery has been found. #Archaeology #History 0438
Reposted by PopulusQue RomanusHannah Moots @mootspoints.bsky.social · 06/04/2025@theguardian.com Why not take more critical approach to the reconstruction? One question that jumps to mind is why didn't the artist take more cues from the Mycenean depictions of themselves, such as the fresco below, also featured in your story. #AncientBlueSky 1343
Reposted by PopulusQue RomanusHannah Moots @mootspoints.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Nighttime in the central courtyard of Diocletian’s Palace in Split, Croatia 📷 by me #RomanSiteSaturday 092
PopulusQue Romanus @populusqueromanus.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Sunset over the Tiber #Rome 📷 by me 000
Reposted by PopulusQue RomanusWorking Classicists @workingclassicists.bsky.social · 03/04/2025🎉 NEW ARTICLE! 🎉 www.workingcl... Dr. Christina Hotalen (drchristinah.bsky.social) was not best pleased with Gladiator II. In this article she takes a look at the flaws, foibles, and faux pas in the film, examining its potential as an ideologically-driven story that panders to the right.workingclassicists.comThis Roman historian was not entertained by Gladiator II — Working ClassicistsFrom the minute we heard about this movie, I said to my friends there was no WAY I would write a think piece about Gladiator II, let alone watch it, and yet, here we are: I've both watched and think-pieced. 39448
Reposted by PopulusQue Romanuscifa-landscape.bsky.social @cifa-landscape.bsky.social · 03/04/2025The Iron Age Dialogues conference is coming up soon, 30th April until 2nd May at @cardiffuniversity.bsky.social . The schedule is packed with great themes and speakers; follow this link for more: www.ironagedialogues.co.uk/homeironagedialogues.co.ukIron Age Dialogues🗓️ 30 April - 02 May 2025 📍 Cardiff University 023
PopulusQue Romanus @populusqueromanus.bsky.social · 01/04/2025newlinesmag.com/essays/overc...newlinesmag.comOvercoming the Deep Roots of Byzantine OrientalismA new book masterfully lays out the history of the Eastern Roman Empire and its legacies 000
Reposted by PopulusQue RomanusDan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 30/03/2025catching up with the full scope of Thursday's executive order solidarity with museum colleagues who are under attack, and also with those communities and institutions where there’s now a threat of attempts to reverse successful struggles to make changes to memory culture in the name of MAGA “truth” 2294
Reposted by PopulusQue RomanusHannah Moots @mootspoints.bsky.social · 31/03/2025This book - The Making of the Middle Sea - was a formative resource for our work on mobility in the Carthaginian and Etruscan Mediterranean. So it was truly a delightful surprise to see this summary of our work in the newly revised edition! 191
Reposted by PopulusQue RomanusDurotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 31/03/2025The Look of Love Detail of Dionysus (Bacchus) and Ariadne from the 4th Century triclinium mosaic at Chedworth #Roman villa #Gloucestershire Found in 1864 and now looked after by @nationaltrust.bsky.social @nattrustarch.bsky.social #MosaicMonday 113723
Reposted by PopulusQue RomanusRachel Singer @rachelbsinger.bsky.social · 29/03/2025New, OA article! Here my coauthors and I (led by the lovely Janet E. Kay) ponder what burial archaeology would bring to the table as we seek to understand the First Plague Pandemic (spoiler alert: we think it could contribute quite a lot!) www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...journals.uchicago.eduBurial Archaeology and the First Plague Pandemic | Speculum: Vol 100, No 2Abstract Archaeological evidence from funerary contexts is largely ignored in current scholarship on the First Plague Pandemic, despite the important information that burials and cemeteries can provid... 15022
Reposted by PopulusQue RomanusRobin G Nelson @robingnelson.blacksky.app · 28/03/2025Seems timely to share this - "race, while not a scientifically accurate biological concept, can have important biological consequences because of the effects of racism." bioanth.org/about/aaba-s...bioanth.orgAABA Statement on Race & Racism - AABAThe following AABA Statement on Race & Racism was written by the AABA subcommittee tasked with revising the previous “AAPA statement on the Biological Aspects […] 03816
Reposted by PopulusQue RomanusHannah Moots @mootspoints.bsky.social · 29/03/2025I made a short video response to the White House's statement this week in which they make the claim that race is biological and they specifically target the Smithsonian American Art for signage saying "race is a human invention" www.tiktok.com/@moots_point...tiktok.comWhat the White House gets wrong about 🧬. Let me know if I should do a deeper dive into the topic #genetics #archaeology #ancientDNATikTok video by Hannah Moots 2145
Reposted by PopulusQue RomanusThe Prehistoric Society @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Don't forget - Clocks go forward one hour tonight... ...and @nattrustarch.bsky.social & @englishheritage.bsky.social are working hard to make sure stone circles of Britain are ready! Each individual stone is being carefully removed, before being polished & reset! Stunning care! 1/2 📷 Herit. Eng. 113340
Reposted by PopulusQue RomanusAntiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 30/03/2025Today is #NationalNeighborDay! There doesn't seem to have been much neighbourly rivalry at Eastern Europe's Trypillia mega-sites. House sizes are remarkably uniform, indicating there was little wealth inequality between households. 🏺 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 0235
Reposted by PopulusQue RomanusDurotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 28/03/2025A Late Iron Age copper alloy hinged neck ring inlaid with coloured glass Found in 1889 on the Isle of Portland in #Dorset Although its original context is unknown, it remains an exceptional piece of Durotrigian bling 🤩 © Trustees of the British Museum: 1889,0715.1 #FindsFriday 420024
Reposted by PopulusQue RomanusFollowing Hadrian @followinghadrian.bsky.social · 27/03/2025#WorldTheatreDay 🎭The extraordinary Roman theatre at Hierapolis in Phrygia (Turkey), built during the reign of Hadrian and renovated decades later under Septimius Severus. Extensive restorations were recently completed. 1719
Reposted by PopulusQue RomanusOscar Lozada @oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social · 27/03/2025What a treat, it's #WorldTheatreDay AND #RomanFortThursday! Here's a fabulous artist's reconstruction of the (amphi-)theatre at Richborough Roman Fort in Kent by Simon Edwards, and the field it's buried under today... "Oh woe to the passage of time" #archaeology #aerialarchaeology #photooftheday🏺 0235
Reposted by PopulusQue RomanusHannah Moots @mootspoints.bsky.social · 27/03/2025The amphitheater at #Hierapolis, Türkiye, built in the Roman-period, around 60 CE #WorldTheatreDay 181
Reposted by PopulusQue RomanusBritish School at Rome @bsrome.bsky.social · 24/03/2025We’re excited to share the new April - June Programme 2025! 🎉 Discover a variety of lectures, workshops, conferences, exhibitions, open studios, talks, screenings, and seminars that we have planned for the upcoming months! Check out the full programme in the PDF version: bsr.ac.uk/wp-content/u...bsr.ac.uk 033
Reposted by PopulusQue RomanusNational Trust Archaeology @nattrustarch.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Excavations in Room 28 of Chedworth Roman Villa recovered bone and charcoal sealed within a foundation trench in the north range. Radiocarbon dates show that the wall could not have been built until after AD 424, so the mosaic must be later than this date. bit.ly/3XUnuKG #MedievalMarch #MosaicMonday 17411
PopulusQue Romanus @populusqueromanus.bsky.social · 24/03/2025A patterned mosaic walkway from #Ostia #MosaicMonday 050