Pasts Imperfect (9.25.25)

This week, historian of science, art, information, and monsters Surekha Davies discusses monster-making in the past and the present.

Pasts Imperfect (9.11.25)

This week, scholar of early Christianity and series editor Andrew Jacobs discusses a new book, Magic and Heresy in Ancient Christian Literature.

Pasts Imperfect 8.28.25

This week, we look at the Inka with historian of the Andes Manuel Medrano. Then, ancient world news, new ancient world journals & more.

Pasts Imperfect 8.14.25

This week, Mellon Leadership Fellow and Nero scholar Lauren Donovan Ginsberg busts the myth of the useless humanist. Then, new ancient world scholarship, new journal issues for a global antiquity, upcoming workshops and much more.

Pasts Imperfect (7.10.25)

Escaping the Thucydides Trap, Sequencing Ancient Egyptian DNA & Roman Sardines, Etruscan Textile Workshops, Repatriating Chinese Manuscripts & Much More

Pasts Imperfect (5.29.25)

Gamifying the Past, Louse-y Wool, Neanderthal Fingerprints, the Women of Pompeii, Classicism and Other Phobias & Much More

Pasts Imperfect (5.15.25)

The Future of Ancient History, Ptolemaic Mummy Wrappings, Ancient Maya Blue, Authoritarianism in the Late Roman Republic and Today, & Much More

Pasts Imperfect (5.1.25)

Slavery & the Economy of Pompeii, Inequality in Ancient Rome & Han China, Classics & Race, Finding the Phoenicians, Sealskin Manuscripts, and Much More

Pasts Imperfect (4.17.25)

Saving, Celebrating, and Defending the work and the workers behind the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the NEH Office of Digital Humanities (ODH)

Pasts Imperfect (4.3.25)

Peopling the Past, Archaeobotanical Finds Under the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, AI Historical Drawings, South Asian Pigments, Wildfires in South Korea, & Much More

Pasts Imperfect (3.20.25)

Ancient Thrace, Scented Statues, the Real Mexica, Cuneiform Spreadsheets, the (Digital) Geography of Pliny, Domestic Cats during the Tang Dynasty & Much More

Pasts Imperfect (3.6.25)

The Global Middle Ages, Translating Linear Elamite, Ancient Chinese Imitation Jade, Reconstructing the Lighthouse at Patara & More

immigration

Pasts Imperfect (2.20.25)

Ancient and Modern Immigration, Amazonian "Garden Cities," Cuneiform School Exercises, Greco-Egyptian Scribes Penning Magical Handbooks, and Much More

Ancient World

Pasts Imperfect (2.6.25)

The ‘Genetics Turn’ in Disease History, Avar Migration, Greek Fish Addictions & More

art history

Pasts Imperfect (1.23.25)

Roman Women and the Army, Myths of the "Roman Salute, Peruvian Tattoos & More

global antiquity

Pasts Imperfect (1.9.24)

Mythology and Democracy, Syrian Archaeologists Band Together, Sanskrit Inscriptions, Fires Near the Getty Villa, and Much More

global antiquity

Pasts Imperfect (12.12.24)

The Annual Classics Gift Guide, Reviewing The Return, Mesopotamian Bodily Emotion, Ancient Chinese Rice Beer, Ancient South Asian metaphysics & much more.

cookbooks

Pasts Imperfect (12.5.24)

The Ancient Greek Underworld, Polychromatic Severans, Psychedelic Egyptian Breast Milk is Bes, Teaching Polybius & Much More

global antiquity

Pasts Imperfect (11.21.24)

The Traitors and Ancient Heresy, Kohl Mining, Early Medieval Crowds & Much More

archaeology

Pasts Imperfect (11.7.24)

Cahokia Mounds, a New-to-Us Maya City, the Bombing of Lebanon & More

labor history

Pasts Imperfect (10.24.24)

Ancient Work Lives, Gazan Heritage Sites, A Giza Pyramid Dog, & More

art history

Pasts Imperfect (10.10.24)

Egyptian Blue, Bombing Near Baalbek, Medieval Walrus Ivory, and Much More 🖌️

politics

Pasts Imperfect (9.26.24)

Ancient Heresiology & Project 2025, Drinking Tobacco, Naming Palestine & More

papyri

Pasts Imperfect (9.12.24)

Illicit Papyri, Looted Antiquities from Sudan, Silk Road Pigments, Kaos, & More