🏞 Missed the seminar last week? Desperate to find out what links winged phalluses and Roman river gods? Well now's your chance as Philippa Walton's lecture on Ritual & Rubbish in Roman rivers is now on the SAAH YouTube channel 🎥: youtube.com/watch?v=EjlU9N…

Explore the monuments of imperial Rome through the people who lived and visited the city at this exciting workshop this November with SAAH's Kathryn Tempest and UCL's Gesine Manuwald @grandlat as part of the Being Human Festival beinghumanfestival.org/events/ancient…

🚬Ever wondered what smoking does to your body? ❓SAAH's TobaccoHealthHistory project has been finding out about some of tobacco's more permanent effects with the results discussed in The Independent. Follow the link to find out more 👇👇: independent.co.uk/news/science/a…

⚱Our next SAAH Research Seminar is this Wednesday 23rd. 👩‍🎓Eva Miller Eva Miller of UCL History will speak on imagining the origins of art, writing, and civilisation from 1870 to 1930. Email [email protected] for a Teams link, or join us in person for cake! 🍰

❓Missed this week's Wednesday seminar? 🔎Want to find out more Dr Eva Miller's research on 'Modern and Ancient Artists: Imagining the Origins of Art, Writing, and Civilization, 1870–1930 (CE)' ? 🎬A recording is now up on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/NhssOvURmOk

🗡This Late #BronzeAge sword from Dickleburgh is being studied by Dr Rachel Crellin's New History of Bronze project. It was deliberately destroyed in a violent #ritual act, the motivation for which remains unknown CC: @theyorkshiremuseum #findsfriday #realarchaeology🗡

⚡Newsflash⚡Our newsletter 'The Mosaic' is out. Find out what our staff & students have been up to including details of the excavation of a Bronze Age burial site on Dartmoor and athletic glory at Leicester's half marathon! 👉 sway.cloud.microsoft/xikaHLBYm8T9Wy…

Every #modulemonday we're going to introduce you to the breadth of our teaching. Module AH3020 focuses on #NorthAfrica in #LateAntiquity & explores how classical & #Christian traditions were transformed from #Morocco to the #RedSea (pictured: a 6th c. Gospel book from Ethiopia).

❓Did you know that we offer a range of #Distancelearning degrees? Iain Grainger, a retired GP, has been 'keeping his grey cells active' (his words!) by studying #Archaeology part time with us. Despite excavating at Roman Magna with Vindolanda Trust he's obsessed with prehistory!

⚱Our next SAAH Research Seminar is this Wednesday 30th. Andrea Hadley-Johnson will speak on 'Self-Led Creativity and wellbeing behind the closed cell door.' Email [email protected] for a Teams link, or join us in person for cake! 🍰

⚡Have you ever wondered how the ancient #Mesopotamians would have predicted Donald J. Trump #election odds?⚡ Find out more in an article written by SAAH's Dr Selena Wisnom for The Conversation. It involves a sheep's liver 🐑! 👉theconversation.com/why-ancient-me…

📚 Book your ticket now to hear SAAH's Prof. @sarah_tarlow and Sarah Ward talking about #archaeology, #CrimeFiction and her moving memoir exploring the realities of marriage, care-giving, how we die and how we grieve.

📣Cool #findsfriday experimental #archaeology alert! 👨‍🎓PhD student Hamish Darrah entered the 2024 Scottish Hedgelaying Championship, using replica Late Bronze Age socketed axes. He proved that it's possible and recorded use wear and techniques required. ⚒

🎬Last Friday Time Team filmed our 2nd yrs for a piece they're making about our #Roman villa fieldschool near Loughborough. The students were filmed recording ceramics & wall plaster as well as flotation training with University of Leicester Archaeological Services. Watch this space for the final film! 🎬

🏛 The annual Buchan memorial lecture is TONIGHT! Prof. Tom Harrison, Keeper of #Greece and #Rome at the British Museum will ask 'What more can you say about the #Parthenon Sculptures?'. Register to attend in person or join online.👇👇 tickettailor.com/events/schoolo… #Archaeology

We are out and about! The A Level #Classics students are visiting University of Leicester School of Archaeology & Ancient History for an afternoon of lectures on the ancient world.

💻Join the Later #Prehistoric Finds Group Online Symposium 2024, on 8th November. This event includes a keynote lecture from SAAH's Dr Rachel Crellin entitled "Find(ing) transitions." To register email the LPFG chair, Dr Matt Hitchcock ([email protected]). 📷 by M. Hitchcock

📕New open access book with contributions from past & present SAAH staff is out! Check out: Frida Espolin Norstein and Irene Selsvold eds. 'Archaeological Perspectives on Burial Practices and Societal Change. Death in Transition'. 👉taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/…

🚒 On #findsfriday we have some hot news about one of our 👨‍🎓DL students, Aidan Phillips. He's founded Operation Phoenix an initiative which supports #firefighters & fire staff through #Archaeology and traditional crafts. 🔎Find out more here: le.ac.uk/news/2024/nove…

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