🧶 The word clue has a mythical origin, tied to the Labyrinth. When the ancient Greek hero Theseus went into the Labyrinth to kill the Minotaur and end the sacrifice of Athenians to the monster, Ariadne, the princess of Crete, fell in love with him and wanted to help him escape the great maze.

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🕯️ What might the prisoners make of these shadows when they cannot turn their heads to see what is behind?

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💧 What might easily be mistaken for a well-decorated pan could actually be a patera! Paterae were shallow bowls used by ancient worshipers to pour libations. It’s thought that the shape of the patera was useful for controlling the flow of the liquid, ensuring libations were done properly.

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✒️ Our team excitedly introduces one of our most heavily awaited events of the summer: The Ancient Fanfiction Writing Contest! If you have your own ancient story you're just dying to share, then you're in luck because, starting today, submissions are open!

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📣 Check out the keynote speakers for our FREE Virtual Conference “Opening the Ancient World: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Apparel”, open to ALL, organized by SASA, and live streaming on SASA’s website and social media pages, as well as SASA’s partners’ social media pages.

❗ UPDATE! SIGN THE PETITION TODAY! 🎓 The University of Exeter is looking to cut 150 staff roles before the end of the year, and the overwhelming majority of positions at risk are in the university’s Humanities and Social Sciences program!

🌞 You’ve likely heard of Theseus, but have you ever heard of his son? Meet Hippolytus, a devoted follower of Artemis, and in his worship of her, an unintentional enemy of Aphrodite. As revenge, she cursed his stepmother, Phaedra, to fall in love with him! Hippolytus rejected her bluntly.

🏛️ Imagine a city where the number one entertainment is not movie theaters or music concerts, but bloody battles inside the Colosseum. That’s the premise of the 2024 Peacock series ‘Those About To Die’! Starring Anthony Hopkins and Iwan Rheon, this series truly stands out!

📚 Looking to learn something new this summer? RSVP today for one of SASA’s FREE Master Classes! ✨ Beginning Friday, July 24th at 12 PM ET, join archaeologist Nermine Sami abd El fattah Ahmed for her course: Syncretism, Identity, and the Evolution of Funerary Art in Greco-Roman Alexandria.

📚 Looking to learn something new this summer? RSVP today for one of SASA’s FREE Master Classes! ✨ Beginning Tuesday, July 21st at 11 AM ET, join archaeologist Jinyan Wang for her course: Dragons and Griffins in Ancient Mesopotamia.

🪨 Dumb as a rock? In Latin, the word ‘calculus’ means “small pebble”.

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LAST CHANCE TO RSVP 📚 “The Land Where Phoebus Never Frowned” - Graeco-Roman Resonances in the Victorian Era led by John Hayden, Saturday 7pm ET on July 11, July 18, July 25 ➡️ RSVP: saveancientstudies.org/events

🌛 Though American fans know ‘The Tale of the Princess Kaguya’ as a beautiful film, they may not know that it’s an adaptation of one of the oldest surviving texts in Japanese history!‘The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter’ follows a bamboo cutter who finds a baby girl inside a piece of bamboo.

🪨 The Orkney Islands off of Scotland are home to Skara Brae, the most complete village left from the Neolithic period in all of Europe! Dating back to at least 3200 BCE, this village is older than both Stonehenge and the Great Pyramids!

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📣 SASA’s “Fashion Forward: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Apparel”- a FREE virtual conference open to ALL! 🧵 We’re happy to introduce our first keynote speaker, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones!

‼️ LAST CHANCE! RSVP today for one of SASA’s FREE Master Classes! ✨ Beginning Tuesday, July 7th at 1 PM ET, join archaeologist Patrick Horn for his course: Republic to Ruin: Diagnostics of Civilizational Collapse.

📣SASA is proud to announce a new partnership with a great project related to ancient studies on Port Ancient ⛵️ 🎉 Movies We Dig! @movieswedig.bsky.social ‘We are a podcast that looks at the reception of the ancient Mediterranean world in popular media like film, television, and video games...

🔥 Son of Jupiter and Juno, Vulcan was the Roman counterpart of Hephaestus, the Greek god of fire and blacksmiths. While both gods share many myths, Vulcan has a few aspects that are unique to him. His domains were the forge and devastating fires, such as volcanoes.

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🔨Breaking barriers in archaeology! Discover the new updates to the SASA Archaeological Terms and Translation project, bridging language gaps.