Thousands of refugees are currently standing at the US-Mexico border. In their 2,500 mile journey from Central America, these women, … More
Category: maps
Eating Nocturnal Fruits: A Round-Up Of My Favorite Ancient and Medieval Posts of 2017
One of my favorite reflections on the act of writing was written by a late Roman historian, poet, and rhetorician … More
Mapping Racism And Assessing the Success of the Digital Humanities
This week, The Chronicle of Higher Education published a piece (now behind a paywall) written by Prof. Timothy Brennan. In it, the … More
Were Pagan Temples All Smashed Or Just Converted Into Christian Churches?
This week over at the Forbes column [access it here], I discuss an article in the new volume of the Journal … More
Digital Palmyra: Resources for Researching the Ancient City
Yesterday on the Forbes blog, I discussed recent attempts to reconstruct the ancient busts of Palmyra damaged by ISIS and repatriate … More
To The Black Sea And Back: The Late Antique Dura-Europos ‘Shield’ Map
Dura-Europos is an ancient site on the Euphrates river in modern-day Syria. The objects excavated at the site by … More
The Itinerarium Egeriae: Mapping Egeria’s Pilgrimage On Candlemas
In the Roman Catholic Church, the celebration held forty days after Christmas is the festival of Candlemas (February 2). Candlemas recognizes … More
January 10, 49 BCE: Revising The Tale Of Caesar’s Crossing of the Rubicon
It was a great trip to the combined annual meeting for the Society for Classical Studies and Archaeological Institute of … More
Numbering The Stars: Remembering the Contributions of Medieval Muslim Astronomers And Catalogers
This week over at the Forbes blog, I discuss the International Astronomical Union (IAU)‘s publication of an official catalog of 227 … More
August 24, 79: An Hour-By-Hour Account Of Vesuvius’ Eruption On Its 1,937th Anniversary
At around noon on August 24, 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius began to erupt and spew ash and then pumice stones … More
