Digging Up The Past @diggingupthepast.net A podcast and a site dedicated to the latest historical news and research surrounding the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Visit: www.diggingupthepast.net
Sophus Helle 𓂆 @sophushelle.bsky.social Translator of Gilgamesh and Enheduana
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social Freelance editor, researcher, and/or fact-checker for education and academic authors. Writing a book about teachers. https://schoolmarmadvisors.com/ Luddite. Braver Angels. Newsletter: https://dissertate.jennbbinis.com/. r/Askhistorians moderator.
American Medieval Podcast @americanmedieval.bsky.social American Medieval is a podcast about the Middle Ages, but with an American twist. If America has never been modern, it’s because we’ve always been slightly medieval.
Host @profgabriele.com, part of @multitude.productions
linktr.ee/americanmedievalshow
Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social W. Ford Schumann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies, Williams College, 2026–2027. Assoc. Professor ArtHist, UMass Amherst. Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn, frthcmng). https://sonjadrimmer.com/
Gibt es heute Pommes? @gibtesheutepommes.bsky.social Pommes Tracker für die UDE-Mensa am Campus Duisburg
https://gibtesheutepommes.xyz
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies @hcas.bsky.social An independent institute for advanced study within the University of Helsinki. We focus on blue-skies research in the humanities and social sciences and promote innovative multidisciplinary interaction.
Wendy Laura Belcher @wendylbelcher.bsky.social Scholar of early African literature and translator of medieval Ethiopic texts. Author of Writing Your Journal Article in 12 Weeks, which helps academics globally to write publishable academic articles in 12 weeks. 
Leipzig Akkadian Dictionary @akkadiandictionary.bsky.social The Leipzig Akkadian Dictionary (LAD) is a research project at the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig. Starting in 2025, the 17-year project aims to create a new, up-to-date digital online dictionary of #Akkadian.
Heidi Jauhiainen @heidijauhiainen.bsky.social Egyptologist working on building digital tools for the study and production of hieroglyphic /ancient texts. University of Helsinki. Finnish Egyptological Society.
henry @hdevalence.bsky.social navigating the library of babel
Tommaso Bacci @tobacci.bsky.social reads ancient stuff in Chicago (PhD Candidate at The University of Chicago Divinity School, Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East).
Vediamo se i toscani riescono a devastare un altro paese.
Dr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social Lecturer in the Heritage of the Middle East at the University of Leicester. Researching ancient Mesopotamia. Playwright, poet, and Babylonian liver diviner.
https://www.selenawisnom.com
https://leicester.academia.edu/SelenaWisnom
Eetu @eelaus.bsky.social Doctoral student in "East Asian Futures" @ University of Duisburg-Essen, GER
Researching East Asia / North Korea / Future / Postsocialism etc.
Safaitic @safaitic.bsky.social Visit : ociana.osu.edu
ASOR @asor-research.bsky.social ASOR is a non-profit organization that promotes the study of the history and cultures of the Near East and wider Mediterranean world.
Subscribe to our free newsletter Ancient Near East Today: https://ancientneareasttoday.substack.com/
Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social Hebrew Bible, Biblical Hebrew, Aramaic, Comparative Semitics. Blog: bnuyaminim.wordpress.com
Aramaization Project @aramaization.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu ERC project investigating the Aramaization of the ancient Middle East, hosted by the Spanish National Research Council @csic.es @cchscsic.bsky.social
International Association for Assyriology @iaassyriology.bsky.social The IAA was founded in 2003 to promote and represent Cuneiform Studies, ancient Near Eastern History and Archaeology on an international basis.
The Connected Past @theconnectedpast.bsky.social The official BlueSky handle for The Connected Past community. Find upcoming events: https://connectedpast.net/ 
ANEE Helsinki @anee-helsinki.bsky.social Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires @helsinki.fi (dir. Saana Svärd).
#Assyriology #DigitalHumanities #SocialTheory #Archaeology #OpenScience
University of Helsinki @helsinki.fi 
Paula Gheorghiade @paulageorgiade.bsky.social Aegean archaeologist & Postdoctoral Researcher in Archaeological Networks @ the Social Resilience Lab, University of Aarhus https://cas.au.dk/en/social-resilience-lab & 1/2 of the Connected Past Scientific Committee @theconnectedpast.bsky.social
Lena Tambs @lenatambs.bsky.social Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (HCAS) Core Fellow / mother / the Connected Past (TCP) steering committee. Egyptology, (social) network analysis, socio-economic history, Ptolemaic Egypt.
Tommi Jauhiainen @tosaja.bsky.social 
Assyriologie à l'Université de Lille @en-lille.bsky.social Suivez l'actualité du pôle d'assyriologie de l'Université de Lille, composée de 2 enseignants-chercheurs et 7 doctorant·es, au sein de l'UMR 9028-HARTIS 📜
Follow the assyriologists from the University of Lille!
VIEWS project @viewsproject.bsky.social Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems (VIEWS) is a Cambridge Uni project funded by UKRI, and host of the Endangered Writing Network.
For more information please visit our websites: https://linktr.ee/viewsproject?utm_source=linktree_profile_share
Eric H Cline @digkabri.bsky.social Archaeologist, ancient historian, author of 1177 BC, After 1177 BC, Three Stones Make a Wall, and other books
https://cnelc.columbian.gwu.edu/eric-h-cline
Matthew Monger @biblemonger.bsky.social Scholar of the languages and literature of the Ancient Near East. Focusing on reception history, manuscripts, and material philology.
MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion, and Society, Oslo.
On YouTube as Biblemonger
Srsly Wrong Podcast @srslywrong.bsky.social utopian and scientific, research based comedy podcast
Patricia O'Connor @trishaoconnor88.bsky.social Digital Humanities researcher for the #OG_H_AM project at Maynooth University.
Text encoding, medieval manuscripts, marginalia, and inscribed objects.
Digital Officer @toebi.bsky.social. (she/her)
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KaylinQ.bsky.social @kaylinq.bsky.social 
Dr. Shana Zaia @shanazaia.bsky.social Assyriologist at VU Amsterdam | Formerly Uni Vienna and CSTT Helsinki | Yale PhD | Ask me about Assyria | shanazaia.com
Library of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World @isawlibrary.bsky.social The ISAW Library is a research library that supports the core academic areas represented by the ISAW faculty and students, as well as the interdisciplinary, cross-boundary approach to the ancient world that lies at the center of ISAW's intellectual mission
Sonia Mzali @sonia-mzali.bsky.social Doctorante en Assyriologie
(UMR 9028-HARTIS, Université de Lille)
Sumer / Pratiques cultuelles / Genre / Maternités
PhD student in Assyriology
Sumer / Cultual practices / Gender / Motherhood
co-responsable de @ama-mater.bsky.social
Ilī-Yahu - 𒉌𒉌𒀭𒅀𒌑 @ili-yahu.bsky.social Assyriology PhD Candidate – UMR 9028 - HARTIS (Université de Lille, CNRS, MC)
Amanda Hills Podany @ahpodany.bsky.social Author of Weavers, Scribes, and Kings, Professor Emeritus of History at Cal Poly Pomona, Assyriologist, and occasional bass player
Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social Assyriologist at Wolfson College (Oxford), writer plagued by self-doubt, lover of dead languages. I think we should all be doing what we can to save the planet.
My book 😎 https://lnk.to/BetweenTwoRivers
Andrew A.N. Deloucas @aandeloucas.com Postdoc Associate, Yale
Ph.D. (Assyriology), Harvard
visit me at www.aandeloucas.com
Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social Art historian, archaeologist, curator, educator 🖌️ | Assyria, Persia, Arabia 🌍 | Cultural Heritage, Museums, Provenance, Senses🪻 | Curator, ISAC Museum, UChicago 🪷 | Lecturer, Dept of Art History, UChicago 📖 | PhD, UCBerkeley 📚
Zach Rubin @zachrubin.bsky.social Adjunct assistant professor at Hunter and Fordham. Assyriologist, studying the dynamics of sacred knowledge in ancient Mesopotamia | ✡️&🏳️🌈
Laurie Pearce @pearcele.bsky.social Assyriologist, MELC UCBerkeley. Gardener, Walker. 
Shai Gordin @shgordin.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Assyriology and Digital Humanities at #DigitalPastsLab. Interested in NLP for ancient languages, History of the ANE, Human-machine coop and LOD #questseeker
Dr. Petra Creamer @petramcreamer.bsky.social Archaeologist specializing in the Near East/SWANA regions! Asst Prof Emory, Director of RLIIM in Iraqi Kurdistan. Remote sensing, mortuary archaeology, and ancient empires. Writing a book on imperial impacts on landscape and community in Assyria (she/they)
Émilie Pagé-Perron @epp.cdli.network Research Associate, Archaeology Data Service, University of York
Research Associate, University of Oxford
Co-Director, Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative https://cdli.earth
Vegan, cyclist, data lover...
Jason Ur @jasonur.bsky.social Stephen Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. Landscape, origins of urbanism, empires, remote sensing, geospatial, ANE- D Jessie DeGrado @disorientalism.bsky.social
Dr Ellie Bennett @drelliebennett.bsky.social Assyriologist at the University of Helsinki, interested in gender, emotions, and digital approaches to ancient Middle Eastern history
Also a knitter, nerd, and lover of film 🎥
Seraina Nett @serainanett.bsky.social Assyriologist at the University of Copenhagen. Interested in languages, social and economic history, digital humanities, and cats. 🇨🇭🇩🇰🇸🇪
Morgane Pique @mpique.bsky.social PhD student / Doctorante en Assyriologie, université de Lille (UMR 9028-HARTIS)
> Old Babylonian period and its merchants, institutions and society
> Page Pro : https://pro.univ-lille.fr/morgane-pique
Adam Anderson @admndrsn.bsky.social Assyriologist, archaeologist & data scientist 
Bernhard Schneider @mcb170.bsky.social Mesopotamian Archaeologist
MSCA fellow at the University of Wroclaw
Imane Achouche @imaneachouche.bsky.social Doctoral student in Western Asian archaeology. Université de Liège.
(Elle ; She ; Her)
Christopher W. Jones @cwjones.bsky.social Historian of the ancient world. Working on imperialism, elite competition, Global Assyria. North Carolinian.
Marshall Schurtz @marshallschurtz.com PhD in Mesopotamian Archaeology | Founder | Tour Operator | Traveler
✈️ Lead archaeology themed trips at merakivatravel.com
📍Philadelphia
M. Willis Monroe @willismonroe.com Cuneiform Studies, History of Science/Religion, Quantitative Humanities, Associate Professor at the University of New Brunswick, Co-Director of the Database of Religious History.
Sanna Aro-Valjus @sannaav.bsky.social Assyriologist, statue enthusiast 
Jana Mynářová @pudukhepa.bsky.social Assyriologist and Egyptologist, devoted Wagnerian. Professor at Charles University, Prague.
George Heath-Whyte @gheathwhyte.bsky.social Assyriologist | Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford | Opinions my own
Michael Lewis @michael-lewis.bsky.social Archaeology. Mesopotamia. Ceramics. Petrography. 🏺🔬
Marie Sklodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal 🇵🇹
Former Magdalene College, University of Cambridge
Jon Taylor @jonjtaylor.bsky.social Cuneiformist. History of ancient western Asia. Likely to post on assyriology and museums. Hoping to be distracted by dogs, cows, running, zombies. Curator of cuneiform & cylinder seals at British Museum. Host of Thin End of the Wedge podcast. Views my own.
Ancient Near Eastern Studies Würzburg @anestudieswue.bsky.social Ancient Near Eastern Studies @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social │ #Assyriology and Near Eastern #Archaeology 🏺
NINO Leiden @nino-leiden.bsky.social Research centre and library for Egyptology (including Coptology), Assyriology (including Hittitology), Near Eastern archaeology and connected studies.
https://www.nino-leiden.nl- E Ben Fleuss @enricodandolo.bsky.social Assyriology PhD student at Johns Hopkins University. 🇪🇺🇺🇦
kelsie ehalt 𒆠𒂖𒋛 @wedgie-bce.bsky.social they/them and/or she/her
phd student umich
cuneiform + ritual + magic
+ animals + monsters
+ queer theory + decolonial theory
https://linktr.ee/wedgie_bce
nadia @tamacahut.bsky.social 🇩🇿🇫🇷🇬🇧 Provenance researcher. Cuneiformist. Writes about 19th c. antiquities dealers who smuggled cuneiform tablets out of Iraq to sell to museums in EU/US. Now writing a biography of dealer & smuggler Ibrahim Elias Gejou (British Academy monograph 2026)
Martin Renger @martinrenger.bsky.social Dad | QM at Uni Heidelberg | Archaeologist at Uni Mainz | Southwest Asia | Neolithic | Theoretical Archaeology | Chair of AG TidA/TAG Germany (@agtida.bsky.social) | private account | TTRPG
https://uni-mainz.academia.edu/MartinRenger
Erica Couto-Ferreira @enlalistanegra.bsky.social All things horror. Historian of the ANE, writer, and translator. Haunted houses and weird history feel like home.
ES, GL, EN, IT.
Mesopotámicas @mesopotamicas.bsky.social Cuenta seria de @enlalistanegra.bsky.social. Noticias, historia(s) y arqueología de Mesopotamia. Cuneiforme à go-go. Aprobado por Ereshkigal.
✉️ mesopotamicas@gmail.com
🌐https://uni-heidelberg.academia.edu/MEricaCoutoFerreira
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