In this week’s blog post, Andrew L. Goldman takes us through his archaeological project at the ancient Roman auxiliary base at Gordion in central Anatolia, and the possibility that Pannonian soldiers were stationed at this site. Here, he highlights the role played by non-Romans in the military, while also using archaeological evidence to characterize auxiliary bases as multi-gendered and multi-generational spaces.
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Blog #112: “What Should You Do When You Encounter One of Our Egyptian Mummified Ancestors?” A 12-Point Manifesto on How to Deal with Egyptian Mummified Ancestral Remains with Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage Project
In this week’s blog post, we feature the work of our Egyptian colleagues from the Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage project. Here, they offer us a 12-point manifesto which highlights the ways in which the public can treat Egyptian mummified ancestral remains and their contemporary descendant communities with the dignity and respect that they deserve.
Blog Post #111: Telling New Stories: Do We Need to Display the Egyptian Dead? with Lisa Saladino Haney
In this week’s blog post, Dr. Lisa Saladino Haney takes us through her work on the Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s new “Egypt on the Nile” project, in which they are re-imagining the ways that we conceive of museum exhibitions related to ancient Egypt and the ethical treatment of the mummified human remains in the care of their museum.
Blog #110: Paeonia and the Paeonians in the Historical and Archaeological Evidence with Goran Sanev
In this instalment of our “Unknown Peoples” Series, Goran Sanev, the Curator Adviser at the National Archaeological Museum of North Macedonia and PhD Candidate at Simon Fraser University, takes us through the historical and archaeological evidence for the Paeonians, one of the oldest proto-historical communities in the Central Balkans.
Blog #109: Graduate Student Feature with Lylaah L. Bhalerao: On Serendipity and Sanskrit in the Study of the Mediterranean World
We are kicking off the 2025/26 academic year over here at Peopling the Past with a blog by Lylaah L. Bhalerao, a PhD Candidate at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. Here, she takes us through her research on elephants in the ancient world and the way that serendipity and Sanskrit have informed her current research.
Podcast Season 4, Episode 12: Hopeful Futures for Archaeological Practice with Yannis Hamilakis
In our final episode of season 4, we speak to Dr. Yannis Hamilakis, Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Modern Greek Studies at Brown University.
Listen in, as Dr. Yannis Hamilakis discusses the politics of the past and the critical and ethical pathways forward for archaeology and teaching in the face of hypernationalism and genocide.
Podcast Season 4, Episode 9: Critical Futures for Ancient Studies with Mathura Umachandran
In this week’s episode of the podcast, we sit down with Dr. Mathura Umachandran to discuss past harms and potential futures for the fields of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies.
Podcast Season 4, Episode 8: Selective Salvage: Archaeology and Hydropolitics with William Carruthers
On this episode of the Peopling the Past podcast, we are joined by Dr. William Carruthers, a lecturer at the school of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Essex.
Listen in, as Dr. Carruthers, discusses archaeology and cultural heritage in post-colonial Egypt.
Podcast Season 4, Episode 7: Hired Hands, Silenced Voices: Archaeology and Local Communities with Allison Mickel
In this episode of the Peopling the Past podcast, we are joined by Dr. Allison Mickel, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of Global Studies at Lehigh University.
Listen in, as Dr. Mickel discusses the realm of knowledge-keeping, exploitation of local site workers, and their relations to colonial labor practices.
Podcast Season 4, Episode 6: Classics, the Grand Tour, and Invented Legacies with Hardeep Dhindsa
In this week’s episode of the podcast, we sit down with Dr. Hardeep Dhindsa, a recent PhD graduate from King’s College London.
Listen in, as Dr. Dhindsa discusses colonialism and Whiteness, and the use of Classics in upholding these narratives.
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