Register now to attend Pyanopsia: Festival of Apollo. Attendees will be treated to a talk on Apollo and a self-guided tour exploring mythical creatures from the ancient world. Prizes are on offer for best dressed, so please come in suitable attire. antiquities-museum.uq.edu.au/event/session/…

Whether you celebrate or commiserate… 📷 Denarius of Julius Caesar with Venus Genetrix, Aeneas holding Palladium and carrying Anchises on the reverse, silver, minted in Africa, AD 47-46. UQ C.049.

Pyanopsia: Festival of Apollo is next Wednesday - have you booked your tickets and arranged your costume?! Pyanopsia is a free, student event held in partnership with UQ's Classics & Ancient History and Archaeology societies, and the Faculty of HASS eventbrite.com.au/e/pyanopsia-fe…

March 22 Brisbane 6.30pm UQ Antiquities Museum #Pyanopsia: Festival of #Apollo (free event for students with talk on Apollo by Oskar Fletcher). Register: antiquities-museum.uq.edu.au/event/session/… Cahs UQ

This coin is a copy of a real Roman coin type. Despite its appearance the coin is not silver and the edges have been filed, a tell-tale sign of a forgery. Our exhibition FAKE is closing this year. Don't miss out, visit our gallery before it closes. 📷 UQ C.056

"QLD Friends of the Austn Archaeological Institute at Athens..gifted $10,000 to UQ’s RD Milns Antiquities Museum to provide stipends to UQ students as Summer Research Scholars.." Generous donation helps students explore ancient world hass.uq.edu.au/article/2023/0… @HASSUQ UQ Antiquities Museum

It's International Safety Pin Day! See this example of an ancient safety pin: the fibula. Fibulae (pl.) were used to hold garments together and add ornamentation to outfits and came in various shapes and degrees of luxury. 📷 Trumpet fibula, Britain, AD 5-100, UQ 83.093.

Join us Tuesday 9 May for a student Masterclass based on our current exhibition Wondrous Machines. Participants will reconstruct the movement mechanisms of Hero's shrine and gain insight into the study of ancient technology. Spaces are limited. eventbrite.com.au/e/masterclass-…

Armed with passages from Hero of Alexandria’s On Automaton Making, a diagram of a shrine from a sixteenth-century manuscript, and a mechanical kit, could you reconstruct an ancient machine? Attend our Masterclass on 9 May to find out. Spaces are limited. ow.ly/7L5O50NIOvW

Today we continue to expand AIO's coverage of Attic #demes, with inscriptions of Myrrhinous, Lamptrai, the Marathonian Tetrapolis, Phlya & Sphettos We also publish a grave stele with epigram now at UQ Antiquities Museum, Australia (AIUK 15 no. 17). Full list: atticinscriptions.com/browse/bypubli…

A grave stele UQ Antiquities Museum - Attic Inscriptions atticinscriptions.com/inscription/IG…

Great to see Theophile published by Attic Inscriptions, acquired by the Museum for its 50th anniversary in 2013. uq.edu.au/antiquities/co…

Our Wondrous Machines Masterclass is on next week, Tuesday 9 May. Don't forget to register and secure your place. ow.ly/3uCO50NZwgE"

June 2 Brisbane 4.30pm UQ Antiquities Museum #exhibition opening: "Greece, Rome, Byzantium: Empires of the Sea" antiquities-museum.uq.edu.au/empires-of-the…

Oct 27 Brisbane UQ News (4pm E302 Forgan Smith) UQ Antiquities Museum #Intaglios: Imprints of Identity - seminar by Josephine Carroll-Walden with exhibition opening reception (exhibition curated by Josephine Carroll-Walden & Brianna Sands) facebook.com/events/3680094…

April 7 Brisbane UQ Antiquities Museum (2pm) - Friends of Antiquity Sunday Series: Wondrous machines – an exhibition and tour in the RD Milns Antiquities Museum with Dr Janette McWilliam. Register alumni.uq.edu.au/event/session/…

May 24 Brisbane (UQ 6-8pm) UQ Antiquities Museum RD Milns Antiquities Museum Event: ‘Wondrous Machines In Conversation: The Appeal of Wondrous Machines’ antiquities-museum.uq.edu.au/event/session/… Registration required

#CFP Teaching Antiquity with Material Culture - August 3rd - Macquarie Uni Macquarie University History and Archaeology ACANS. Keynotes: A/Prof Clare Rowan (token_communities, Warwick) & A/Prof Gwynaeth McIntyre (Classics at Otago). Abstracts/EOI to [email protected] (see previous X for Aug 2nd MQ conference CFP)

Sept 27 hybrid Brisbane (Greek Club, 10.30am) Exploring Ionian Islands: Community Consultation Day "to explore what stories the exhibition [UQ Antiquities Museum] might include. We will also be collecting oral history interviews for use in this project." facebook.com/events/1315165…

Oct 20 Brisbane (in person, UQ, 11.30am) #QFAAIA Sunday Function: James Donaldson (James Donaldson UQ Antiquities Museum), Reverend W.M.Woods and the Archaeology of the Sinai & Palestine Campaign [1915-18]. Book $ qfaaia.wixsite.com/mysite/event-d…