Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at the University of York. Director of the Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab & Centre for Digital Heritage.
I post about beautiful archaeology, digital phantasmagoria and anarchist imaginaries & realities.
She/her 🏴
Sasha Dugdale @sashadugdale.bsky.social Poet and translator in a very bad time for Lyrik
Lover of lurchers and other thieving dogs
The Strongbox, Carcanet, 2024
Anna Woodham @annawoodham.bsky.social Museum & Heritage Studies, King’s College London (views own)
Bourse & Bazaar Foundation @boursebazaar.bsky.social A think tank advancing economic diplomacy, economic development, and economic justice in West Asia.
Andarzgar @andarzgar.bsky.social /anˈdarzɣar/
An independent researcher and reviver of late-antiquity Persian astrology. You can find my translations and long-form writings on Patreon.
andarzgar.com
BiblioIranica @biblioiranica.info Bibliographia Iranica is a collective bibliographic blog for Iranian Studies maintained by Shervin Farridnejad, Yazdan Safaee and Arash Zeini (founder).
Ariel Sabar @arielsabar.bsky.social Author of Veritas and My Father's Paradise. Staff Writer @TheAtlantic.com. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.
https://www.arielsabar.com/
Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social Professor of Ancient Art. Director of the Classical Art Research Centre at Oxford University @carcoxford.bsky.social. Chair of Trustees at The Brooking @thebrooking.bsky.social. Antiquity, modernism, arts. Mainly on Instagram @petercnstewart
Samer ABDEL GHAFOUR @samerabdelghafour.bsky.social Founder ArchaeologyIN – Archaeology Information Network l Heritage Crime Analyst
Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social I want Ken Railings to walk in here right now and say 'Pam Shortt's broken both her legs and I wanna dance with you’
The Institute of Classical Studies @ics.bsky.social The Institute of Classical Studies (ICS) in the School of Advanced Study. Promoting and supporting research into all aspects of Greek and Roman antiquity and beyond.
Tincture of Museum @tinctureofmuseum.bsky.social Museum blogger - all about museums, art, history & culture.
Tinctureofmuseum@gmail.com
Founder of Autism in Museums
Blog - https://tinctureofmuseum.wordpress.com/
Derek Fincham 🌵🗿🏛️🖼️🏴☠️ @dfincham.bsky.social Bicycles, art, bbq, writing, & frivolity
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
Dan Diffendale @diffendale.bsky.social archaeologist, at the moment studying volcanic tuff as a building material but interested in all old trash
ΟΣΟΝ ΖΗΣ ΦΑΙΝΟΥ
he/him
Pisa (but bury me beside the Piramide)
🥖🌹
Huttonite Uniformitarian
simultaneously more and less fun than profile suggests
Jana Mynářová @pudukhepa.bsky.social Assyriologist and Egyptologist, devoted Wagnerian. Professor at Charles University, Prague.
ARCA @arca-artcrime.bsky.social ARCA - Association for Research into Crimes against Art.
A civil society research and training organisation which works to promote the study and analysis of art and antiquities crime.
Margaux Dumas @margauxdumas.bsky.social Docteure en histoire contemporaine et histoire de l’art. Spoliation, restitution, mémoire.
Donna Yates @profdonnayates.bsky.social I'm the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Heritage and Emerging Crime as well as a criminologist, an archaeologist, and an unqualified dinosaur lawyer. I study passion and deviance related to rare and precious things at the Faculty of Law, Maastricht University.
Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History @bhmpi.bsky.social Research institute for art history and architecture, part of @maxplanck.de
📍 Rome, Italy
Société de l’Histoire de l’Art Français (SHAF) @shafsoc.bsky.social Active depuis plus de 150 ans, la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art français propose des conférences, des visites commentées et des publications.
Charlotte Johnson @charjoyjohnson.bsky.social Curator of Industry and Metalwork🍴
Recently submitted my PhD ‘Imperial Connections: Re-examining Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire’, AHRC M4C CDA, National Trust and University of Birmingham
Jacques Schuhmacher @schuhmacher.bsky.social Executive Director, Provenance Research, Art Institute of Chicago: https://www.artic.edu/collection-information/provenance-research
Victoria Reed @victoria-reed.bsky.social Bettina Burr Chair for Provenance at the MFA, Boston. Art, museums, restitution, and ladies with severed heads.
Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social Writer and historian: photography, art, archives, museums, colonialism (Egypt, Sudan). Chair in the History of Visual Culture @durhamhistory.bsky.social. Author of Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century. https://christinariggs.com
@vrherrmann.bsky.social @vrherrmann.bsky.social 
Georg Kö @geoseventyfour.bsky.social Historian, Provenance Researcher, Urban Photographer and nerdy Philosopher of Science…
https://www.flickr.com/photos/geoseventyfour/
What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn. H.D.T
Augusta McMahon @augustamcmahon.bsky.social Mesopotamian archaeologist at Univ of Chicago; former Univ of Cambridge; ancient urbanism; Tell Brak and Nippur; Co-Editor, Iraq Journal; distance runner.
@pdwordsworth.bsky.social @pdwordsworth.bsky.social 
BAR Publishing @barpublishing.bsky.social Independent Publisher of the world's largest academic archaeological series with over 4000 titles.
@ipghq Academic & Professional Publisher of the Year '22
Eva Mol🍉 @evamol.bsky.social Lecturer Roman ArchaeologyUoY; slow archaeology; from Drenthe; lover of everything conceptual
Peter Good @pejgood.bsky.social Historian of Early Modern Iran, the Middle East and Indian Ocean
@beazweig.bsky.social @beazweig.bsky.social 
Milad Alizadeh 🍉 @mil.ad AI @ Earth Species Project
🔗 https://mil.ad
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.
Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg @menalibahs.bsky.social Librarian for Islamic Art & Architecture at Harvard Fine Arts Library. Scholar of women in medieval Arabic pop lit. She/her/hers. Opinions≠employer's.
Dr Ladan Akbarnia @ladanakbarnia.bsky.social Museum curator at the San Diego Museum of Art (and formerly at The British Museum and Brooklyn Museum), San Diego County Commissioner for Arts and Culture, Curator of Wonders of Creation: Art, Science, and Innovation in the Islamic World (2024-25)
Wendy Shaw @cageinbeakifly.bsky.social The cage opened the door.
It shook and squeezed,
disinterested in my fall or flight.
My friends!
I shook out my fine feathers.
These plumes are my pens.
On written words and turned clay,
On winged water and pressed sound
I now fly.
Fuchsia Hart @fuchsiahart.com Curator for the Iranian Collection, V&A Museum
Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social Art History - Indian Ocean Studies - Digital Humanities
Material Culture Studios @mcshistory.bsky.social Indie dev. studio specializing historically accurate RTS city builders, artifact/site digitization and reconstruction, historic consultation/research, and educational materials. Blending digital and physical media to put in history into the hands of all.
Omniya Abdel Barr @omabarr.bsky.social Architect, MA in Conservation, PhD in Islamic History. Head of Development at the Egyptian Heritage Rescue Foundation and Researcher at the V&A.
Currently raising funds to restore Bayt al-Razzaz, a 15th c. palace in Historic Cairo built by Sultan Qaytbay.
Yael Rice @yaelrice.bsky.social Art historian researching and teaching pre-modern Islamic South Asia and West Asia. Portable objects, books, dh, museums, and cats, not necessarily in that order.
Elizabeth Marlowe @lizmarlowe.bsky.social Art History & Museum Studies Prof. Ancient Rome, object biography, epistemology, museums, display, looting, provenance, forgery. 
Alice Stevenson @alicestevenson.bsky.social Archaeologist that digs museums & archives. Professor of Museum Archaeology at UCL Institute of Archaeology. Co-editor Museum Anthropology
R F Kennedy (not Jr.) @kataplexis.bsky.social Ancient Historian and Professor. First gen, public school, state college kid teaching at a SLAC. PhD OSU, BA UCSD. “Come on down here, third string. Let me show you how outclassed you are.” ~Full Metal Alchemist
Angela S Chiu @chiuangelas.bsky.social Independent scholar of the market for Asian antiquities, especially Khmer and Thai. PhD Buddhist art and literature of Thailand. Author of The Buddha in Lanna (U of Hawai'i Press, 2017)
Lynley McAlpine @lynleymcalpine.bsky.social Provenance researcher and Romanist in Texas
Francesca Stavrakopoulou @proffrancesca.bsky.social Chaired Professor of Hebrew Bible & Ancient Religion. Geeky. Greeky. Atheist. Author. Sideline in TV, radio, etc. GOD: AN ANATOMY winner of PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022. Work profile: https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/1365-francesca-stavrakopoulou
Dr Summer Rose Austin @summeraustin.bsky.social Archaeologist researching cultural heritage crime, looting, trafficking, il/licit markets, museum ethics and law | 1st Gen PhD from @uclarchaeology.bsky.social | she/her
No one is illegal on stolen land
Anna P. Judson @annapjudson.bsky.social Durham Classicist (languages, Linear B, epigraphy, archaeology). Member of WCC UK and WIASN. Blogging (intermittently) at http://itsallgreektoanna.wordpress.com. She/her
Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social @J_E_Barr at the other place. City of Angels.
#Provenance with a dash of Pleistocene. Collector of images of dealer stamps and stickers. Bad photos of good art & all opinions strictly my own. #jhuprovenance
Dr. Stephennie Mulder @stephenniem.bsky.social Assoc prof of Islamic art at UT Austin, 24-25 NEH Fellow, Syria, archaeology, heritage. Formerly world-renowned author of "The Citizen Kane of Islam-centric cat-themed Twitter threads", now making an Arabic/English digital game set in 8th c. Syria
Liv Mariah Yarrow (will not "cheat like hell") @profyarrow.bsky.social Numismatics. Ancient History. ANS Fellow. Professor of History and Classics, CUNY. Typo-Queen.
I treat this space like the office water cooler.
Blogging at livyarrow.org
Shreya Gupta @shreyagupta.bsky.social AHRC CDP PhD student at Exeter and Ashmolean Museum researching the history of collecting coins in colonial India
https://linktr.ee/Shreya.gupta11
Elginism @elginism.bsky.social Parthenon Sculptures (AKA Elgin Marbles) plus other cultural property disputes, museums, art law, archaeology, architecture & Greece.
Formerly London based, now in Sydney.
@mokersel @mokersel.bsky.social archaeologist, adventurer, follower of pots and neolithic masks
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 📚
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social Professor of Archaeological Heritage researching the history and ethics of collecting material culture. Heritage and its impact. Museums & Archives. FRSA FSA
https://linktr.ee/davidwjgill
Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social Archaeologist | Permanent Representative of the Director, Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg | Adjunct lecturer State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart | Private account, views are mine 🖖
Carol Atack @carolatack.bsky.social Ancient politics and political thought, modern art, Plato and Xenophon. Fellow of Newnham College, FRHistS. Cambridge and elsewhere. Recent books: Plato: a civic life (Reaktion) and Xenophon (Greece & Rome New Surveys in the Classics, Cambridge).
Sanna Aro-Valjus @sannaav.bsky.social Assyriologist, statue enthusiast 
Lynda Albertson @sauterne.bsky.social Forensic researcher and cybrarian using bibliometric analysis to develop accurate quantitative analysis on subjects of illicit trafficking, organised crime and looted/stolen art and antiquities at ARCA. Friends say I am 'fingerspitzengefühl' with data. :)
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com Researcher @mantrams.bsky.social, @ox.ac.uk; FRHistS; Iran, Zoroastrianism, late antiquity, philology; Founder of @biblioIranica.info; AIS inaugural Book Prize for Ancient Iranian Studies 2022. Personal account, my views.
https://linktr.ee/arashzeini
Stefan Bauer @stefanbauer.bsky.social Research Integrity Facilitator at King's College London. Author 'The Invention of Papal History' (Oxford University Press) http://bit.ly/PapalHistory. Historian interested in fakes and forgeries. Bsky since 23/10/23. / Views expressed are my own.
Stuart Dunn @stuartdunn.bsky.social Digital Humanist and Professor of Spatial Humanities, King's College London (@kingsdh.bsky.social). Also: Head of Humanities, @kingsartshums.bsky.social. Various other things too, e.g. @folkloresociety.bsky.social Council Member.
https://stuartdunn.blog
Dr. Judith Hubbard @judithgeology.bsky.social Earthquake scientist; read my earthquake newsletter: earthquakeinsights.substack.com. Visiting Asst Prof @CornellEAS; prev @ EOS_SG, Caltech, Harvard. Mom (x3). Local elected official! I also post pictures of my foster kittens.
Dr Jennifer Howes @jhowesuk.bsky.social Art Historian looking for dirt on Britain’s imperial past in museums & archives. Author of “The Art of a Corporation: The East India Company as Patron and Collector". Wife, mother, pug owner.
www.jenniferhowes.com
Luise Loges @luilog.bsky.social Antiquities crime researcher, science communicator, journalist, feminist, nerd. This is a private account. I repost anything that catches my attention: cats, AI slop hate, politics, Star Trek, cats, academia, archaeology, cats, and other things. Also cats.
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)
(Dr) Debbie Challis @poisonchallis.bsky.social The ancient world in the modern, in so many ways. Cultural historian and creative producer FRHistS: https://www.debbiechallis.com.
Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social she/her | Roman lit, culture, & history (& all things Nero) at Duke | Mellon Leadership Fellow | humanities advocate | catch me on WiredTechSupport: https://tinyurl.com/RomeWired | Read about Myths of Useless Humanists: https://tinyurl.com/HumMyths
Rebecca Levitan @levitan.bsky.social probably thinking about ancient art/archaeology or snacks. London-based ☂️
Caroline Barron @carolinebarron.bsky.social Associate Professor in Classics (Roman History) @Durham_Classics. Latin inscriptions & the ancient world by day. Rome, dogs, wine & friends by all other means.
Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social Brown Viking. Historian, late antique Central & W. Asia, Sasanians, Byzantines, Scandinavia, Rus’. BD fan, Globe Trotter, Kensington Communist, flâneur, in love w London, Tehran, Athens, & Vienna. Have laptop, will write.
Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social Stendahl Chair at Harvard Divinity School / studying demons, apocalypses, and ancient identities, between memory and forgetting
Dr Vicky Donnellan @vickydonnellan.bsky.social Curator for the reception of the ancient Mediterranean at the British Museum - PhD in classical archaeology and museum studies - Opinions my own - she/her
@hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social Phoenix Guide to Strange England: #Hookland. Run by David Southwell
#Hauntology Re-wilding #Folklore #FolkHorror #Psychogeography #LandscapePunk Re-enchantment Is Resistance https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068598123
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social He/him. Reader in Digital Classics @dh-researchhub.bsky.social & @ics.bsky.social University of London. #EpiDoc #DigiClass #Epigraphy #Papyrology #AncientMagic #LinkedOpenData #Prosopography #3Dimaging #CulturalHeritage. Writes 100% in personal capacity.
Dan Stewart @drdanstewart1.bsky.social Ancient historian/archaeologist at the University of Leicester. Likes ancient landscapes, Roman Crete, Peloponnese, & Pausanias. Obviously views expressed are my own and not those of my employer. He/him.
Jen Baird @jenbaird.bsky.social Professor of Archaeology at Birkbeck, University of London. Director of Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies. Excavator of archives. Syria, Romans, photographs, Dura-Europos. Newfoundlander.
Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social Heritage, Archaeologist, solidarity, she/her - hoping for more kindness, often anxious and sharp. Professionally garrulous. Living in Cardiff. Ageless, so no DMs
Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social Material culture historian, exploring the history of Cypriot archaeology and ancient Cypriot collections in UK museums. Ceramics fan. Research Fellow, Institute of Classical Studies and Associate Lecturer in Classics, Open University. Views my own.
Zena Kamash @zenakamash.bsky.social Writing - archaeology - heritage.
British Iraqi.
Faber Academy 'Writing Your Novel' graduate.
Winner: EAA Book Prize 2025.
Working Classicist of the Year 2025.
She/her
antonio musto @amusto.bsky.social phd @ nyu
social and intellectual history (mainly Sufism)
i like to read old stuff
Jonathan Parkes Allen @jparkesallen.bsky.social historian of the Islamicate with @openiti.bsky.social; community food forest/garden organizer with @foodforestchatt.bsky.social. ☦ Christian, father, deep time delver. 🏴 anarcho-agrarian 🌻 upholder of Gustav Landauer thought 🌹
Katherine Harloe @katherineharloe.bsky.social Classicist, based in UK. Pessimist.
Mezna Qato @meznaqato.bsky.social 
Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social earthquake aficionado & disaster studies scholar. outreach lead for PNSN; views and posts my own. now returned to the salish sea, but in the words of my former mayor, “you know first stop is always istanbul."
Shervin Farridnejad @farridnejad.bsky.social Professor of Iranian Studies، History, Languages & Cultures of the Near East, University of Hamburg، member of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC): Iranian Languages and Religions, Zoroastrianism, Judeo-Persian Literature 
Alex MacFarlane @aghowes.bsky.social Book cataloguer and peripatetic scholar, researching the medieval Armenian Alexander Romance and 19th-century Caucasus cosmopolitanism. Films, trains, British. They/them.
Rose Broadley @roseb.bsky.social Archaeologist, introvert, parent. Glass specialist (http://www.historicglass.co.uk)
Dr Sarah Irving @drtermagant.bsky.social Associate Prof of Middle Eastern History (Palestine, earthquakes, archaeology, labour). Gobby feminist, inky, cyclist, cat rehabber, born at 331. She/her. #actuallyautistic. Ed. of @contemplevant.bsky.social. Defender of post-92s, union member.
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social historian of witchcrafts, tarot, folklore, France 18-20th century
ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic
also #CreativeHistories
yes, that’s an actual photo of me.
never had ebola. yet
Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social What is your city built from? This account is all about building and decorative stones and accessible geology in the built environment. londonpavementgeology.co.uk
https://www.walks.com/guides/ruth-1/
Dr Amelia Dowler @ameliadowler.bsky.social National Officer FDA Union; Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow at the Institute of Classical Studies; Researcher in numismatics; Poet
Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social Writer. Global poetics+politics @SOAS|Books: Strangers (2026) Erasing Palestine (2023)The Persian Prison Poem (2021) Writers & Rebels (2016) 🇵🇸academic freedom| Non-aligned leftist rgould.substack.com rrgould.hcommons.org & @balaghas.bsky.social Bristolian
Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social Professor of South Asian history Rutgers-Newark | Anti-fascist | pro-education | https://www.audreytruschke.com/ | https://princeton.press/8r8idcye