Late in the afternoon on November 5, 2020…

Embedding open content into your syllabus is just one way to promote #OA and save your students a little bit of cash at the same time. It is syllabus time for many once again. If you are like me, you want to save your students from spending too much on…

Originally known as the Flavian Amphitheater, the Roman Colosseum is oftentimes directly associated with the death of Christians; however, as Keith Hopkins and Mary Beard point to in The Colosseum, there is no authentic evidence from the first century to support the notion that Christians were ever martyred within it: …

Please note that this is an updated and cross-posted article. The original can be found on the SCS blog here. I will continue to update this list of responses and statements for the foreseeable future. It has now been nearly two weeks since the SCS-AIA annual meeting in San Diego…

By Erin Averett, Sarah E. Bond, Derek Counts, and Bethany Wasik (This blog was originally posted on the SCS Blog) The following post is meant as a impromptu guide to pitching your monograph or edited volume focused on the ancient Mediterranean to an editor at the national conference of the…

Thousands of refugees are currently standing at the US-Mexico border. In their 2,500 mile journey from Central America, these women, children, and men from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador have endured much in order to petition for a grant of asylum within the United States. …

For the past year and half, I have written extensively about the appropriation of ancient symbols, texts, and material culture as a rallying point for hate and marginalization within the U.S. and Europe. …

A few weeks ago, I began to ponder the ways in which Greek and Roman art is presented within the modern museum context–and to ruminate on whether we put a bit too much emphasis on the perceived front of a piece of art rather than the side or back of…

This week over at Hyperallergic, I wrote about new exhibits at the British Library and the Victoria & Albert Museum which both engage with the cultural heritage of ancient and medieval Ethiopia. An examination of the Ethiopian cultural heritage held in the libraries and museums of Britain can perhaps demonstrate…