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Monday, March 2, 2026

Solidifying the Dead: Material Innovation and Mortuary Meaning in the Gypsum Burials of Late Roman York

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 by Mary Harrsch © 2026 Introduction Among the most unusual mortuary phenomena in Roman Britain are the gypsum-encased burials of third- a...
Friday, February 6, 2026

Hearing Power: Sound and Authority in the Ancient World

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by Mary Harrsch © 2026 I was uploading closeup images I took of Shalmaneser III’s black obelisk to Wikimedia Commons and noticed this photog...
Monday, January 26, 2026

From Ritual Wheels to War Machines: The Rise of Chariots from Tell Agrab to Kadesh

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 by Mary Harrsch © 2026 This reproduction of a model wheeled vehicle from Tell Agrab that I photographed at the Institute for the Study of A...
Monday, January 19, 2026

The Last Flight of the Ba: Reimagining the Afterlife at the End of Antiquity

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by Mary Harrsch © 2026  This Nubian ba-bird statue (Ballana Cemetery B, Tomb 245; ca. 225–300 CE) that I photographed at the Institute for t...
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