Digging Up The Past
The latest historical news surrounding the eastern Mediterranean and Near East. Visit: www.diggingupthepast.net and www.diggingupthebible.com
@drdirt07.bsky.social
Archaeologist | Applied Anthropologist | Science Communicator | aka Dr. Dirt
@ancientlinguist.bsky.social
Ancient linguist and engineer specializing in Druid Akkadian, the language which Neolithic farmers brought into Europe. All European languages are a mix of this and the later arriving Indo-European languages. Past is Pagan. See https://www.druidwisdom.org/
@mshepps.bsky.social
Mesopotamian archaeologist, lecturer at U of Liverpool. Ancient architecture, urbanism, TANKS(!). Painter of unsettling things. Can ride, fence and shoot. Good at knots. Ivory tower-dwelling liberal.
@alicestevenson.bsky.social
Archaeologist that digs museums & archives. Professor of Museum Archaeology at UCL Institute of Archaeology. Co-editor Museum Anthropology
@oliverdietrich.bsky.social
#Archaeologist. Neolithic-Bronze Age. Doctoral thesis on ~4000 socketed axes from Romania. ~15 years at early Neolithic Göbekli Tepe / Türkiye. Now public relations and research @landesmuseumhalle.bsky.social. Also #photography. Private account.
@philipjboyes.bsky.social
Archaeologist and linguist working on the Bronze and Iron Age Levant. Research Associate with the VIEWS Project at the University of Cambridge. Formerly with the CREWS Project. Geek.
@gvkonsta.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Assyriology and Cuneiform Studies in NELC at UCLA. Sumerian, religion & magic, demons, exorcism, and monsters. Also posts about walking in LA and my idiot cats.
@runeisforr.bsky.social
Archaeologist and assyriologist specialising in the materiality of ancient writing systems. Associate of Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative.
@micsim.bsky.social
Egyptologist, Italian, astronomy enthusiast, in love with nature, geology and dinosaurs, mother of huskies https://unifi.academia.edu/Mic%C3%B2lDiTeodoro
@eleanorrobson.bsky.social
Professor of Ancient Middle Eastern History at University College London by day; Social Media Manager and Volunteer Co-ordinator at Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve by night; here for cats, crochet, jam and water buffaloes at all times 😸🧶🐃
@horusofnekhen.bsky.social
He/Him | Disabled archaeologist and curator specialising in the study of disability in antiquity. #BlackLivesMatter #FreePalestine 🍉
@jorritmkelder.bsky.social
Archaeologist and historian of the ancient Mediterranean and beyond. Board of Luwian Studies (CH) and Teylers Museum (NL), orcid: 0000-0002-2935-4641
@aspa1842.bsky.social
The American Society for Premodern Asia, founded in 1842 as the AOS, promotes research in the languages and literatures of West, Central, South, and East Asia, and North Africa, incl. philology, epigraphy, linguistics and material culture.
@janinewende.bsky.social
Assyriologist. Currently project manager of the Leipzig Akkadian Dictionary at the Saxon Academy of Science and Humanitites in Leipzig. https://www.gkr.uni-leipzig.de/personenprofil/mitarbeiter/janine-wende
@urosmatic.bsky.social
Egyptologist (PhD) archaeologist Senior fellow, College for Social Sciences and Humanities, University Alliance Ruhr, Essen Lecturer at University of Graz Winner of Harrassowitz Philippika (2018) and Austrian Academy of Sciences (2020) Prizes
@bajr-badger.bsky.social
Scottish archaeologist, loves Near East and Arabian Gulf. Been there done it and still so much more to learn. Lives in Czech and Scotland. Oh and I run BAJR, the independent voice of British Professional Archaeologists.
@archaeoten.bsky.social
Archaeologist, historian, sometimes ethnographer .. eventually History & Art Hist. prof. Defintivelly, construtive skeptict, dyslexical & systematical Eclectic https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/ https://uned.academia.edu/MTenreiroBermudez
@ajh-plants.bsky.social
Archaeology, Paleoethnobotany, Nubiology, Near Eastern Studies, Anthropology. He/ Him.
@mwdegruchy.bsky.social
Landscape archaeologist. Research interests: archaeology of Mesopotamia, past mobility, and cultural property protection.
@patrickjboyle.bsky.social
Historical and Maritime Archaeologist Texas A&M University PhD Student Studying Chesapeake Bay Vernacular Watercraft Dive Bum, Skydiver, Lost in VR https://patrickboylephotography.mypixieset.com/
@tiedetati.bsky.social
A research enthusiast Classicist at Tampere University Helsingin yliopiston dosentti #ancienthistory #classics #Latin Tieteestä intoileva antiikintutkijatäti. she/her
@rebaysalisbury.bsky.social
archaeologist, prehistorian, enthusiastic about the European Bronze and Iron Ages, bio-archaeology, interdisciplinarity, dead people, dogs, prof @univienna https://tinyurl.com/msnfnxaa
@duxfeminafacti9.bsky.social
Current Stepsay Postdoc at San Diego State University. PhD from Boston University. Researching: Diana, Augustan poetry, gender/sexuality, reception in sci-fi/fantasy, Tolkien. Disability advocate. T1D 30 years. She/her.
@debborahdonnelly.bsky.social
Egyptian archaeologist, environmentalist🌲🐝, gemmologist💎, ceramicist🏺, photographer📷, veteran Canadian Navy Officer⚓ #Egypt #archaeology #travelblog https://www.debborahdonnelly.ca/
@glynnisfawkes.bsky.social
Cartoonist, archaeological illustrator, educator. 1177 BC A GRAPHIC HISTORY with @dgkabti @princetonpress
@melissakafunke.bsky.social
Classicist and lover of fragments. Winnipegger. she/hers
@serviliusahala.bsky.social
Mediterranean archaeologist | Binghamton NY U.S.A.
@keseaman.bsky.social
Ancient Mediterranean art historian & archaeologist | U Oregon 🏺🦆🏛| Current book project: art, labor, & identity in the Greek sculpture industry | Rhetoric and Innovation in Hellenistic Art (CUP) | Artists and Artistic Production in Ancient Greece (CUP)
@ics.bsky.social
The Institute of Classical Studies (ICS) in the School of Advanced Study. Promoting and supporting research into all aspects of Greek and Roman antiquity and beyond.
@rheaclassical.bsky.social
An online, open access book review journal that prioritizes emerging and underrepresented scholarly voices in Ancient Mediterranean Studies. Website: rheaclassicalreviews.com
@aprilmbeisaw.bsky.social
Anthropology professor @Vassar College. Fulbrighter @Natural History Museum Vienna. The Archaeology of American Protests (2025), Taking Our Water for the City: Archaeology of NYC Watershed Communities (2022), Identifying & Interpreting Animal Bones (2013).
@davidrohl.bsky.social
Egyptologist, historian, archaeologist, chronologist, Eastern Desert Survey field director, lecturer, TV presenter, author. Music composer, record producer, studio sound engineer, musical director, musician, vocalist. Photographer, study tour organiser.
@kjohnston.bsky.social
I’m an Egyptologist and digital humanist. I obtained my PhD from UC Berkeley in 2022. I’m now a postdoctoral scholar working at the Field Museum and the ISAC Museum at the University of Chicago.
@christinatsoup.bsky.social
Ancient Middle East & EastMed Archaeology & History | religion, human-animal & human-environment relations, cylinder seals, early writing | Ass.Prof@UKSW Warsaw| Editor NEA | former PI @Cambridge | Hon. Fellow @Durham| mother of 2 | Living with an RD
@elleryfrahm.com
Archaeologist • Research Faculty at Yale • Director, Yale Initiative for the Study of Ancient Pyrotechnology • Co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports • www.elleryfrahm.com
@yannisham.bsky.social
Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Modern Greek Studies at Brown University. Politics of the past (and the present), sensoriality and the body, contemporary archaeology, theory and philosophy, migration: https://brown.academia.edu/YannisHamilakis
@beatricepestarino.bsky.social
@LerverhulmeTrustEC @UniversityofLiverpool, Cyprus lover, Mediterranean always
@devoretext.bsky.social
Ancient Mediterranean historian, Cal Poly Pomona. History, the human past (those 2 aren't the same), politics, some baseball. Views here not of my institution.
@selsvold.bsky.social
(Late) Roman archaeologist. Dabbling in archaeological theory, funerary culture and how we think about change in Late Antiquity. Postdoc @ Uni Oslo / Norwegian Institute in Rome
@erinaverett.bsky.social
Mediterranean archaeologist, Creighton University. Associate Director, Athienou Archaeological Project (Cyprus)
@drnwillburger.bsky.social
Archaeologist | Permanent Representative of the Director, Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg | Adjunct lecturer State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart | Private account, views are mine 🖖
@digital-hammurabi.bsky.social
Assyriologist, YouTuber and Podcaster, currently fixated on fishtanks.
@cwjones.bsky.social
Historian of the ancient world. Working on imperialism, elite competition, Global Assyria. North Carolinian.
@mcb170.bsky.social
Mesopotamian Archaeologist MSCA fellow at the University of Wroclaw
@petramcreamer.bsky.social
Archaeologist specializing in the Near East/SWANA regions! Asst Prof Emory, Director of RLIIM in Iraqi Kurdistan. Remote sensing, mortuary archaeology, and ancient empires. Writing a book on imperial impacts on landscape and community in Assyria (she/they)
@knpazuzu.bsky.social
Art historian, archaeologist, curator, educator 🖌️ | Assyria, Persia, Arabia 🌍 | Cultural Heritage, Museums, Provenance, Senses🪻 | Curator, ISAC Museum, UChicago 🪷 | Lecturer, Dept of Art History, UChicago 📖 | PhD, UCBerkeley 📚
@moudhy.bsky.social
Assyriologist at Wolfson College (Oxford), writer plagued by self-doubt, lover of dead languages. I think we should all be doing what we can to save the planet. My book is now out! 😎 https://lnk.to/BetweenTwoRivers