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Hey! It’s @LevineRx, back for @Tweetistorian takeover day 2: Live from Naxos, #Greece & week of Cycladic #Archaeology!Naxos is big, so let’s start small! Today’s thread takes us back in
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A thread of threads on @stephenniem's posts on Islamic art, archaeology, and cultural heritage this week, in which we traveled from Damascus to Delhi and from Palmyra to Palermo and
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Today I'm answering your questions. It's also the third day of protests in Austin, TX in response to the killing of George Floyd by police, and it feels wrong not
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Who is this 'Abd al-Wahhāb, and why do I keep calling him "black-Arab" or "black-skinned" rather than "Afro-Arab" or some such? It turns out he's black due to a medical
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My thread about Islamic responses to antiquity provoked a lot of conversation, so I thought I'd do a follow-up thread to clarify a few points. I'm grateful for the questions,
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Five years and three months ago today, ISIS entered the museum in Mosul and began to destroy ancient statues with pickaxes and sledgehammers. They claimed they were destroying "false idols"
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As an art historian and archaeologist, I think about how objects tell stories. I'd like to lay out a few ideas about method: about what art historians do and how
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@Kwasidagbe's 3rd thread today introduces @sfcdaly #historian of #Nigeria @DukeU in @DukeAAAS whose first book https://tinyurl.com/y7e63tt8 bout #Biafra is coming out w @CambridgeUP in July #twitteristorians #Twittistorian ~BNL @s
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Is the corpus of ancient Arabic poetry authentic? Since the manuscript evidence is rather late, centuries after the traditional dates of composition, can we be sure that the poems are
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Happy Tuesday y'all, it's @tlecaque still, and let's talk regionalism, chaos, and the breakdown of central authority in Francia in the 10th century. That's right, it's feudal revolution time! #medievaltwitter,
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Good morning! It's @tlecaque, starting my takeover for the week with some #medieval southern France leading up to the First #Crusade. I want to take today to lay out some
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@drdanisanchez Tweeting for @twitterstorian again today. Based on my last few threads, you can probably guess that I am not a bullets/battlefields WWII historian. I gave a lecture at Temple's
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