Today we were informed that the University Executive Board is proposing to close the Department of Archaeology. As a department we unanimously reject this decision, and the grounds upon which it was made. It will mean the end of Archaeology at Sheffield.

Here’s a flavour of what was happening on the physical & virtual pickets today. Thanks to Richard Badge#StandWithUkraine @knockels web.uculeicester.org.uk/strike-day-one…

We arr now offering scholarships for the Ulster University PgDip/MSc in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), taught online to start in September 2021. More information visit honorfrostfoundation.org/grants-offered… Priority will be given to students from the HFF region (Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt)

Find out more about four recent projects awarded funding through the HFF Small Grant Award, the projects include fieldwork on an Egyptian port, a Cypriot harbour, stone anchors and a new publication on contemporary philosophy honorfrostfoundation.org/2021/07/02/spr…

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Our photographic exhibition "Surveying memories" by Adamos Papantoniou opened today (7-11 July) Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, 4th Documentary Film Festival. Join us also in watching our short archaeological documentary film on Sunday 11 July! University of Cyprus ArtLandS Lab Tetraktys Films Ίδρυμα Έρευνας & Καινοτομίας (ΙδΕΚ) - RIF

In celebration of Professor Toumazou's career at Davidson College, the Department of Classics is hosting a symposium to honor him on Saturday, October 16. For the full schedule: docs.google.com/document/d/173…

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Call for papers! The Under the Mediterranean II conference is being held in Malta in April 2022. For more information visit um.edu.mt/events/Mediter… #maritimearchaeology #honorfrost #malta #conference

*Wednesday* 20th of October, our neighbours Classics at Newcastle are hosting this event as part of #BlackHistoryMonth. Hear from contributors to ‘A Cultural History of Race in Antiquity’ which is due to be published next month by Bloomsbury Academic Sign up here! eventbrite.com/e/writing-a-cu…

This conference will explore how uses of digital technology, and digitisation in particular, have transformed the ways in which historical photographs of value to perceived inherited cultural legacies are collected, deployed and identified as such. #Heritage #Memory #Photography

ZOOM lecture 5 ARU.UCY University of Cyprus in the 56th Lecture Series (celebrating ARU's 30th birthday) by Dr A. Georgiou, OCT 25th, 19:30 EET, on Interregional Commercial Strategies in the LBA–EIA East Mediterranean (ComPAS, ERC Start.Grant). ZOOM registration: ucy.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Our condolences to @ULASarchaeology family on the loss of Debbie Sawday, a fountain of knowledge, generous with her time and always fun to be around. She was a source of kindness and a tireless campaigner on social and environmental issues. May her memory be a blessing. #STTL 🌸

Join us for our next TCD Classics Research Seminar: we are delighted to welcome Theodora Jim (University of Nottingham) ‘Nothing to do with the Afterlife: Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece’ Nov 3rd @ 5.30 pm eventbrite.ie/e/theodora-jim… Classics Nottingham TCD Histories @ReligionTCD

This looks like a great event and you can get tickets to go in person or online, so please share ! Classics for All The Classical Association LLP Bristol Classics Hub Devon and Cornwall Classics Hub Classics for All Cambridge Warwick Classics Network @NCCHistory Runshaw Classics thereader.org.uk/get-involved/w…

Latin and Greek are about to lose their position and might even end up disappearing from the Spanish curriculum. If you'd like to show your support, help spread these images on social media #ClassicsTwitter

Today is the last day to register for this term’s Loughborough Schools Foundation Classics (online) Lecture by Professor Stephen Hodkinson Classics Nottingham Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN. 📅 Wednesday 17 November ⏰ 5pm Loughborough Amherst School Loughborough High School Loughborough Grammar School Sarra Jenkins Classics for All 👇 eventbrite.co.uk/e/spartans-on-…

Could two followers please copy and re-post this tweet? I'm trying to demonstrate that someone is always there, especially at this time of year. Call 0800 689 5652 (National Suicide Prevention Helpline UK). Just two. Any two. Copy, not retweet. Let’s all look out for each other.

Can textile tools be used as archaeological indicators? An analysis of textile manufacture during the Chalcolithic to Bronze Age Transition in ancient Cyprus tells us. Learn more in the newest Near Eastern Archaeology, a journal of ASOR: ow.ly/FS8f50ILaNf

We are back 👋⛏️Please join us for an exciting tour of the Roman archaeology in RAF Akrotiri. @BFBSCyprus. 24th April, 10am starting by the Yellow Helicopter. We will see graves, quarrries, Lania caves and visit the latest excavation on the Katalymata site Pls Share wide and far