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Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology blogs

If you're avid about archaeology, committed to classics or excited about Egyptology, these blogs are for you.

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A hand drawn playing card on a piece of paper. There is a drawing of a creature, perhaps mythical. At the top reads Cetus Sea Monster, underneath is a drawing of the creature, then statistics about the creature: Strength - 10, Beauty-glamour - 0, Wisdom - 2, Agility/speed - 8, Magical powers - 0, Total - 20.
Creature Features: a simple card/role-playing game you can use in the classroom, or just for fun!

2 May 2025

Sun setting on the shore, with people's heads bobbing in the water
Summer School at the British School Athens: supported by The Chris Mee Travel Fund

29 April 2025

Two young people standing together smiling next to a old stone monument that has three archways in it.
The Roman Experience #3: Valeska Labelle

24 April 2025

A band on stage, at the centre is a woman in a floaty sheer skirt and the band are dimly lit from behind creating silhouettes
“It's good to be soft when they push you down”: Weyes Blood & ancient mythology

23 April 2025

A city centre street. People are standing outside a large ancient building with columns on the left, on the right are restaurants and shops in yellow and orange tones
The Roman Experience #2: Heidi Barker

14 April 2025

An old Italian stone building and courtyard with statues under the ground floor archways
The Roman Experience #1: Cristina Vinereanu

9 April 2025

Vivien is a woman with light coloured red hair, smiling at the camera
Student Q&A: Vivien Woerdenweber, MA Archaeology

8 April 2025

Why do so many neurodivergent people choose Classics?

7 April 2025

A man standing in front of a stone structure under green trees in summer clothes
Visit to the oracular cult site of Trophonius at Lebadeia in Beotia: funded by the Peet Travel Award 2024

2 April 2025

A woman with dark hair wearing a sari next to a bed of flowers
Student Q&A: Aneeka Khan, MA Classics and Ancient History

28 March 2025

Case displaying two mummy portrait panels and a papyrus
British Museum Legion and Archive trip: funded by the Peet Travel Award 2024

24 March 2025

An old worn black and copper plate or bowl with handles with a painted person in the middle holding a small minotaur on their lap
Asterion's Monster: the Minotaur Myth retold

21 March 2025

A woman standing facing old gates and stone walls in a rocky hilled area
Iraqi Kurdistan research trip and excavation: funded by the Peet Travel Award 2024

18 March 2025

A woman with brown hair standing next to a gold statue of a bear that has Egyptian markings on it
Student Q&A: Lynsey Shale, MA Egyptology

14 March 2025

Figures made out of stone at the entrance of an old excavation site outside
Türkiye research trip and excavation: funded by the Peet Travel Award 2024

11 March 2025

A woman with long blonde hair sat in front of two computer screens using the mouse
Student Q&A: Elizabeth Thomas, MSc Archaeology

4 March 2025

Sculpture of an ancient golden bird like creature
Caeneus to Caenis

21 February 2025

A detailed colourful illustration of a cross section of an art exhibition featuring several different rooms all connected to each other. In the bottom left is a room with chairs, leading onto a green room with a tree, leading into a white room, leading to a grey room, leading to a dark spooky room. There is another room in the bottom right hand corner with yellow flooring and a single table.
Without Object: Imagining a Sappho Exhibit

20 January 2025

Georgia with (from top left) Valentino Gasparini (Madrid), Csaba Szabó (Szeged), Jörg Rüpke (Erfurt), and Rubina Raja (Aarhus) at the Max Weber Kolleg, University of Erfurt.
Healing Rituals, Patient-Physician Resonance, and the Lived Body: Experiencing, Communicating, and Managing Chronic Pain in Antiquity and Modernity

29 October 2024

A plant pot and other pottery. A plant resides inside the Gorgon plant pot.
A newfound admiration for ancient potters and their pottery

23 October 2024