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Dr Victoria Austen @Vicky_Austen

Assistant Professor of Classics @UofIllinois. Gif Enthusiast. My own unique mix of 🇬🇧đŸ‡ș🇾🇹🇩

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Dr Victoria Austen@Vicky_Austen
9 Mar 2023
I did that 😭😭😭
Bloomsbury Classical Studies & Archaeology@BloomsburyClass
9 Mar 2023
Happy publication day to @Vicky_Austen and Analysing the Boundaries of the Ancient Roman Garden (new in our Ancient Environments series)! This is a study of the relations between ‘garden’ and ‘not-garden’ in Rome (c. 100 BC–AD 150). Find out more: bit.ly/3ZsyAFu
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19 Dec 2025
In this week’s #PeoplingBlog, Dr. Marta Alberti Dunn reflects on her research on the history of volunteers on Hadrian’s Wall and the evolution of those tasked with performing skilled labour on the excavation of this site: peoplingthepast.com/2025/12/

Marta and a group of volunteers stand together with a banner for the Vindolanda Excavations 2024-2028. You can see Hadrian’s Wall in the background.

ALT Marta and a group of volunteers stand together with a banner for the Vindolanda Excavations 2024-2028. You can see Hadrian’s Wall in the background.
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21 Nov 2025
In today’s new #PeoplingBlog, Andrew L. Goldman takes us through his archaeological project at the ancient Roman auxiliary base at Gordion in central Anatolia, and discusses the possibility that Pannonian soldiers were stationed at this site: peoplingthepast.com/2025/11/
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Graphic featuring a central image of a segment of Roman scale armor and the blog title “Pannonians Abroad? New Evidence from a Roman Auxiliary Base in Central Turkey with Andrew L. Goldman”

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19 Nov 2025
So many miracles men can’t experience - pregnancy. childbirth. getting screeched at online by incels for celebrating your PhD

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31 Oct 2025
In this week’s #PeoplingBlog post, our Egyptian colleagues from the Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage project offer us a 12-point manifesto which highlights the ways in which the public can treat Egyptian mummified ancestral remains with the dignity & respect đŸ§” /1
Peopling the Past blog logo and logo for "Egypt's Dispersed Heritage" with text that reads: "What should you do when you encounter one of our Egyptian mummified ancestors? A 12-point Manifesto on How to Dal with Egyptian Mummified Ancestral Remains with Egypt's Dispersed Heritage Project."

ALT Peopling the Past blog logo and logo for "Egypt's Dispersed Heritage" with text that reads: "What should you do when you encounter one of our Egyptian mummified ancestors? A 12-point Manifesto on How to Dal with Egyptian Mummified Ancestral Remains with Egypt's Dispersed Heritage Project."

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30 Oct 2025
For the final throwback on our countdown to Halloween we return to our series on the presence of the Undead. Melissa Cradic guides us through the complexities of excavating ancient graves, and relationships between the living & the disembodied dead in the ancient Near East đŸ§”đŸ‘‡
Graphic featuring the Peopling the Past blog logo, the full title of blog post 67 “Beyond the Grave with Melissa S. Cradic, and an image of an Apulian red-figure volute krater depicting Hades and Persephone in the Palace of the Underworld

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29 Oct 2025
Our countdown to Halloween continues with today’s look back to our series on monsters and demons in the ancient world! Check out #PeoplingBlog #35 Researching Monstrosity in Greek Literature with Fiona Mitchell here: peoplingthepast.com/2021/10/

Graphic featuring the Peopling the Past blog logo, the full title of blog post 35, and an image from a Greek vase painting showing a winged monster diving towards a ship filled with sailors.

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28 Oct 2025
Our countdown to Halloween continues today as we look back to our series exploring the presence of the Undead and highlight #PeoplingBlog 68: Controlling the Restless Dead in Mesopotamia with JoAnn Scurlock đŸ§” đŸ‘‡đŸ»
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27 Oct 2025
As we approach Halloween, it’s time to dig into the archives to highlight some of our spooky content! đŸ˜± Today, we look back to our series on “Cursing in the Ancient World” and highlight Blog #87 The Perils of Love: Love Spells in Coptic Magic with Roxanne BĂ©langer Sarrazin đŸ§”đŸ‘‡
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RT @eduardo_garcmol: Heads up, UIUC Classics is accepting applications for MAT and MA/PhD programs for fall 2026. All resident grads are su

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24 Oct 2025
You can check out all these episodes and many more at peoplingthepast.com/category

Graphic listing the top 5 episodes. Season 3, Episode 12: How do you Solve a Problem like Cleopatra? : Shelley Haley and the last Egyptian Pharoah Season 1, Episode 2 – Spindles and the City with Dr. Katherine Harrington Season 2, Episode 12 – Breaking the Bond: Forced Marriage and Cursed Freedom in Ancient Rome with Katharine Huemoeller Season 3, Episode 10 – These Boots are Made for Walking: Women’s Mobility and Migration in the Roman Empire with Marie-Adeline Le Guennec Season 3, Episode 2 – Call the (Roman) Midwife: Ancient Delivery and Childbirth with Tara Mulder

ALT Graphic listing the top 5 episodes. Season 3, Episode 12: How do you Solve a Problem like Cleopatra? : Shelley Haley and the last Egyptian Pharoah Season 1, Episode 2 – Spindles and the City with Dr. Katherine Harrington Season 2, Episode 12 – Breaking the Bond: Forced Marriage and Cursed Freedom in Ancient Rome with Katharine Huemoeller Season 3, Episode 10 – These Boots are Made for Walking: Women’s Mobility and Migration in the Roman Empire with Marie-Adeline Le Guennec Season 3, Episode 2 – Call the (Roman) Midwife: Ancient Delivery and Childbirth with Tara Mulder
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24 Oct 2025
In celebration of our recent fifth birthday, Peopling the Past is counting down the top 5 of each of our media categories! Today we are giving a shout-out to the top 5 #PeoplingPodcast episodes! đŸ§”đŸ‘‡
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20 Oct 2025
And if you are interested in finding out more about Lisa’s work, you can also check out episode 4 of #PeoplingPodcast Season 4 – “Curating with Care: Transparency in Museums with Lisa Saladino Haney” – peoplingthepast.com/2025/05/


Season 4, Podcast 4: Curating with Care: Transparency in Museums with Lisa Saladino Haney

In this week’s episode we are joined by Dr. Lisa Haney, Assistant Curator of Egypt on the Nile at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and part-time instructor at the University of Pittsbu


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20 Oct 2025
In our new #PeoplingBlog, 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: peoplingthepast.com/2025/10/

Image of painting depicting mummification process. Text on border reads "Blog Post #111: Telling New Stories: Do We Need to Display the Egyptian Dead? with Lisa Saladino Haney"

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peoplingthepast@peoplingthepast
10 Oct 2025
You can check out all of Top 5 videos and many more at peoplingthepast.com/category
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Graphic reads: Video #1: Disability in Ancient Greece with Dr. Debby Sneed Video #14: Kara Cooney talks about Women and Power in Ancient Egypt Video #10: Katherine Blouin talks about the Cult of Isis Video #17 Tattoos in Ancient Egypt with Anne Austin https Video #16: The Hyksos with Danielle Candelora

ALT Graphic reads: Video #1: Disability in Ancient Greece with Dr. Debby Sneed Video #14: Kara Cooney talks about Women and Power in Ancient Egypt Video #10: Katherine Blouin talks about the Cult of Isis Video #17 Tattoos in Ancient Egypt with Anne Austin https Video #16: The Hyksos with Danielle Candelora

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10 Oct 2025
In celebration of our recent fifth birthday, Peopling the Past is counting down the top 5 of each of our media categories! Today we are giving a shout-out to the top 5 #PeoplingVideo contributions across the years đŸ§”đŸ‘‡
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2 Oct 2025
In the spirit of Halloween, October’s #ImageOfTheMonth is a particularly cursed item: a Roman curse tablet (defixio) from 1st–4th century CE London (British Museum 1934,1105.1). This thin sheet of lead wishes ill-health to a woman named Tretia Maria /1
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26 Sep 2025
Read this new instalment of our "Unknown Peoples series here: peoplingthepast.com/2025/09/
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26 Sep 2025
In today’s #PeoplingBlog Goran Sanev (Curator Adviser at the National Archaeological Museum of North Macedonia and PhD Candidate at @SFU) discusses the historical & archaeological evidence for the Paeonians, one of the oldest proto-historical communities in the Central Balkans /1
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19 Sep 2025
And our most popular blog so far?! That's Blog #16 Forgotten Kingdom: The Mitanni, with Mara Horowitz peoplingthepast.com/2021/02/
 Make sure to check out all these fantastic posts, and more at peoplingthepast.com /end.
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19 Sep 2025
In second spot is Blog #89 Beyond Rome: The Indigenous People of Ancient Italy with Claudia Paparella peoplingthepast.com/2023/11/
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Blog #89: Beyond Rome: The Indigenous People of Ancient Italy

In this week’s blog post, Claudia Paparella, a graduate student at the University of Toronto, takes us through her research on the Indigenous Peoples of ancient Italy through an analysis of t


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